We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Darpan Patel a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Darpan, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

At the Creative Collective Studio, our mission is to tell diverse stories by diverse people. We believe that now more than ever we have an opportunity to tell stories in which we see ourselves on screen. The beauty of our goal at Creative Collective is that we aren’t looking for a theatrical release or an OTT release, we’re telling stories that we love, and our distribution channel is youtube. Our writers and artists all believe in the mission and we’ve committed to giving back our profits from our channel to our individual projects. At the Creative Collective as have asked our self a lot about the stories we want to tell and have committed to producing two projects over the next quarter, and we couldn’t be more excited about tit.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I’ve had a love of animation since my earliest memories and I spent time learning different technology as well. So the Creative Collective studio is an intersection for me, Story and Technology.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Being an artist is hard. Regardless of what type of artist you are. A writer, an animator, and a sound engineer. It’s hard not only because you have to have the talent for it but because you have to be given an opportunity to present your skills and in the world we live in it’s really hard to get recognized by big studios. This is the primary reason we created the Creative Collective Studio – To show the world, that dozens of talented artists have the ability to come together and write and produce something meaningful. It’s been quite a journey getting this setup, our first iteration of this completely failed, the handful of artists we had left and everything stopped right there. We had to think hard about how we wanted to bring artists together and that’s when we shifted to going all in on youtube. Understanding from a creator’s perspective that they need to work towards something and from a ‘studio’ perspective that we want to support them through this journey. We belive we’ve hit a good middle ground, publishing on youtube regularly and still being able to tell a meaningful story and I’m quite excited for the journey ahead.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

Pivoting is such a crucial part of an entrepreneur’s life. At least that is what the pundits will tell you, I believe, Pivoting is a crucial part of YOUR life. If you’re committed to an idea, a personal idea – you put all your will and might into it and when it fails we often look at it and go “oh well I tried it and it failed” and never give it a second look. Pivoting from what your initial goal was to shape it to another goal and on and on allows you to keep your dream alive. Yes, the dream is different but your core mission stays the same. This happened with the Creative Collective Studio – we were determined to put together a small team to work on a handful of big projects only to realize that it won’t work and instead of backing down we pivoted to youtube. We made a conscious decision to monetize on youtube and that allowed our creative side to keep alive and monetization for our artists and studio.    

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecreativecollective.studio/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9B87BL0ISHkSZDg938Ykg