Reddit reviews The Freelance Manifesto: A Field Guide for the Modern Motion Designer

For anyone trying to find work, I've found the best way is real life networking. Find your local relevant network (ie digital, web, creative - keep it broad), go to events. The other way is mass emailing, as described in The Freelance Manifesto (it's targeted at motion designers but lots of it is relevant to others). Introduce yourself, tell them what you do, show your portfolio and suggest meeting/chatting. This is how I get all my work and it's great.

In terms of managing work, that's just down to organisation. I have all the folders organised on my computer so I know what work is in progress and what's done. I contact my clients via email/phone, or Slack if they use it too. I only tend to have a couple of jobs on the go at a time so it's never too much to manage, but I guess some sort of spreadsheet would help, or something like Mindly or the millions of other project management platforms out there. The difficulty of having all clients in one place with an IM, file manager etc is that clients don't all use the same thing. Especially actual clients that pay; they're not looking on Upwork.

Hey, just here to comment on School of Motion, I did their Animation camp, and am currently doing their design camp and it was great. I've used after effects, photoshop, and illustrator but besides knowing my way around the interface, I couldn't do much besides watch tutorials.

Animation boot camp was great. Teaches you a lot of principles, and if you stick with it you have some decent projects for your reel that can get you some basic freelance work.

Design Bootcamp is a little underwhelming compared to Animation, but I have to admit my photoshop skills have vastly improved. In animation I was learning why to do this, and here I feel like I'm just learning how. Although, 3 weeks in I already have a few projects for my design portfolio that I'll add to my site/portfolio when I'm done.

I actually plan on taking Mograph Mentor next, which I've heard a lot of people rave about. It's more expensive (2k for 12 weeks each section. there are 3 sections total, totaling 36 weeks.) but if my work keeps paying for it, I'll keep taking it.

Joey, who runs SoM and teaches the design camp, also just came out with a book about freelancing that's pretty good. Makes you excited to get into mograph.

If you have more questions, I'm more than happy to answer them.