I’m Eddie Mead - storyboard artist (Helluva Boss, Harley Quinn) & indie animation advocate. After 2 years of unemployment, leaving LA, & the cost of escaping the industry, I’m drowning and I need help. Animation folks, please share & help how you can. https://t.co/zJwMB8Tb6T

🍂Our new adventure 🍂

What happens next?

Glitch Direct is such an inspiration. It always gets me so inspired and excited for the future of all of these incredible creators and projects. I hope to participate in indie animation space again someday, but for now, a MASSIVE congratulations to all involved! 🧡

A redraw I did back in 2022! I'm trying to figure out my style for my comic Wickwood still... Maybe I should do another before and after comparison this year? 🤔

I'm posting on Tiktok again! I'm gonna be posting some art vids, and it would mean a lot to me if you could drop a like or comment... I'm trying out making social media fun for me again! https://t.co/TFRhtDekb3

Switch up the routine this weekend with a last-minute Florida trip

Some old spooky art for spooky season 👻

Getting back in the swing of posting regularly! Gonna be resharing some art i still like, and then sharing news about new projects 👀

I’m Eddie Mead - storyboard artist (Helluva Boss, Harley Quinn) & indie animation advocate. After 2 years of unemployment, leaving LA, & the cost of escaping the industry, I’m drowning and I need help. Animation folks, please share & help how you can. https://t.co/zJwMB8Tb6T

I’ve given years of my life, endless hours & thousands of dollars in debt to this industry. I love animation & the community. I always will. But the industry’s instability has damaged my life in ways I can’t begin to explain. I’m at the end of the road & need help to rebuild.

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I’m gonna be posting a GoFundMe today or tomorrow. When I do, please share and consider supporting me. It’s humiliating to ask for help, but leaving LA and animation has put me in such a dire financial situation that I am drowning. I’m at rock bottom asking for a lifeline.

Mini episodes (3-5 minutes), volunteer, but would be a place for boarders to get experience getting director notes & working from a script. I don’t have a budget now, but I want to give new/intermediate boarders a safe, no-deadlines, no-pressure space to learn and grow.

I’m not looking just yet… BUT. If I were to need storyboarders for a casual volunteer/mentorship project, who would be interested? 👀 (Posted this elsewhere, but I still have a lot of connections here, so thought I’d share)

I’ve been out of work in the animation industry for two years now (1/5)

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I'm sharing these feelings, because some people have said that me being honest about this has helped them as well. It's hard sometimes, and I want to share that.

This account is sort of becoming a journal for me as I work through this process, so sorry if this is a bummer, but I think it's important to share how bad this hurts to leave my dream behind. It's really hurting today.

I was rewatching some OC animatics I made, and the boards I was doing for Circus of Wishes, and all the hard work I did for Warner Bros... And I'm good at what I do. I love my storyboards. It's just really hurting me today to feel that loss of 10+ years of hard work.

Giving myself the space to grieve my career a little bit today... It's gonna take me a lot of time to process all of the things that happened, and it's not going to be a linear healing process. But if there's one thing sticking out to me today, it's that my storyboards are GOOD.

AI Glasses To Remember Everything

Animation AMA! ✨ Happy to answer any questions about my experience working in the industry, working in indie, and working on my own projects. (Also trying to pass the time at work LOL)

I want to make a mini comic exploring what it has been like to leave the animation industry. I want to help get rid of some of the stigma, there’s so few resources about what it’s like. If anyone has any questions about the journey, I’d also love to answer them here!

Leaving the animation industry was the right choice. If I didn't choose myself, if I didn't value my self-worth and choose to start over away from Hollywood, I would still be unemployed and depressed in LA. I've got so many thoughts on this journey, but rn I'm celebrating