Freelancing the road to success and how important is networking?

 Freelancing the road to success and how important is networking?

Freelancing as an animator is extremely important as in can improve your skills within the field and build a good reputation and are decent at the work so that other clients may contact you for a job. It is also important to make sure you don't develop a bad reputation like say passing off someone else work as your own since this can get you blacklisted making no one want to hire you. With this in mind you should also make sure that you are able and willing to following the wishes of the client and make sure not to stray from the brief they give you.

As A freelancer you will need to be very involved with networking  to survive since a animator freelancer. For example will only get jobs if they make it a point to look for them. Which is why using Professional community websites such as linked-in  will very useful when you need to contact people and even if they don't hire you you have at least let them know you exist for the future. you can also try talking to people you know since they may be able to put you in contact with someone who may be looking.

So as long as you are good at your field, are known for having a good reputation for completing your assigned work within the confines of the brief provided by your client and are good with networking and getting in contact with various clients then you should do decently as a freelancer. While being particular good at a certain software will certainly help in the animation field it is always best to become knowledgeable with other software so that you can adapt in case your client has asked for it to be produced with in a a certain software.