We recently connected with Rajan Kapila and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Rajan thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Have you been able to earn a full-time living from your creative work? If so, can you walk us through your journey and how you made it happen? Was it like that from day one? If not, what were some of the major steps and milestones and do you think you could have sped up the process somehow knowing what you know now?
Working and living off my creative work has been rewarding and satisfying honestly. At the start, it seemed difficult to even begin but what I learned over time; what isn’t difficult in life. Getting my first in studio job was a milestone, working for clients like amazon, Disney and many more. I am not sure if I could say that there’s a way to speed that process up, but as fellow artist we just need to keep that the hungry and desire to create great work at the forefront and the rest is sure to come along. Money. Consistency. Success and everything else you may desire.
Rajan, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
I have been working the tv animation industry for the past decade now. I have varied my experiences from working as a board artist, designer, background artist and animator. Lately I have been working as a board artist for quite some time. As a board artist, we are responsible for setting the tone, and pace of the episode. We take the script and audio, and create visuals for the entire episode. It’s package deal for board artist, you must look at your sketches and envision the finished product at times. Keeping in mind, characters, acting, composition, mood and so many more things to make the rest of the production team’s life a tad better and easier moving forward. What makes me special: I am a story teller and I love doing exactly that, and I am currently in the phase of pitching my tv show projects and going out there wanting to tell my story for whom may want to hear them. I like to create stories up, for just simple sketches but I’m always envisioning a bigger picture than just a pretty picture.
What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?
Being able to tell a story I want to, just by doing some doodles and a few words. Being able to be the inner actor that I have always been.
Being able to fight inner demons in a healthy and productive way.
Knowing that someone out there likes what I did, that may be one but that one is plenty for me too.
In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
I think it’s difficult for a society to simply support one, but I think as a community we need to have each others backs. As artist try to entertain, beautify and glamorous fun stories to tell the world, I think keeping people there to tell those views and pov as the source of story tellers. Don’t replace the artist’s beautiful process of coming up with stories, by using AI. I don’t think that will help anyone and anything. We all grow from the stories we tell each other and artists have not let us down yet. Keep AI and computerized ideas out of the board rooms, especially for the non-creatives, it might be a money saver but it actually killing the whole point of a story.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://rajankap.wixsite.com/2drajan
- Instagram: @rajscribbles
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajan-kapila-8876934b