New on The Happy Producers Podcast: Perfection is Boring?! A Creative Pep Talk with Dale Hayward

Hey everyone — Virginie here!

I’m still buzzing from my conversation with the insanely talented Dale Hayward, co-founder of the stop-motion studio See Creature and See Learn. If you love breathtaking storytelling and real talk about the creative process, you're going to want to hear this one.

We g...

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On Training and mentorship.

I used to be scared of other Producers... Until I met LP.

The first interaction I had with LP was in 2014 when he was producing a cinematic for a AAA video game I was working on. I had to call him to ask for a costly, time-sensitive, complicated retake that we needed ‘’like, yesterday’’.

I was so sc...

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I don't take New Year's resolutions, I do this instead.

 

Taking new resolutions (and keeping them) should be a constant habit. It's like tuning an instrument every time a string is offkey.

 

Throughout the year, I keep listening to the sound of my strings. When something sounds off, I tweak it. I don't judge myself for sounding off; I act on it.

 

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That Time Getting Surgery Was More Relaxing Than Producing an Animated Film...

Stress is not your boss.

 

There, I said it!

 

Virginie here, and I wanted to share with you a more personal story of how I decided to stop letting work-related stress take over my life.

 

It was a Wednesday morning in February. I was lying on a hospital gurney, naked under a little surgery go...

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Who Are The Happy Producers?

Hi! It's so lovely to meet you.

My name is Virginie -it's pronounced Veer-jee-nee. My partner is LP, and together we are The Happy Producers.


Welcome to our blog!

We are two happy-minded film and television animation producers that live in Quebec, Canada. We put our twenty yea

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The Failing Habit - or to stop pretending to be a perfectionist.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY


I used to call myself a perfectionist. But then, I realized that my motivation to polish every task to a perfect shiny picture of what I had in mind was because I was afraid of what others might think of it.

Afraid o...

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A Conversation With Agora Community

 

Virginie had the pleasure of taking part in Agora Community’s weekly live stream: A Conversation With.

We love the show’s straightforward approach, and Virginie was happy to engage in this no filter conversation about animation film & TV production.

If you were unable to attend live, the repl...

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