How can crowdfunding be beneficial to some people?

This week in class we were discussing how different artists have to fight economy like everyone else just to survive in our everyday world and keep their work going on. There were many different ways for us to earn money that we discussed in class and from what i read in the blog. The subject that got me interested was the crowdfunding. Crowdfunding was basically an artists or a person asking people online for donation to complete a certain project. This seemed to be an easy way to earn some money but at the same time it is hard. A guy like me, who is shy, doesn't like to talk to random people, and a stay in, will have a hard time to make crowdfunding as a starting juice for one of my future projects. Crowdfundung requires you two have multiple connections, keep on checking how many people funded your work and reply to all of the people after the project was completed. Although, because of this method rising artists can complete most of their project. This was pretty obvious to me because i know what type of a person i am. So for this particular case i must try and get a lot with more random people or at least have the courage to speak with them. There are other downsides to it the crowdfunding however. The time limit on how long your request may be post is one month, another one being that you might be sued if the project is not delivered soon. For this reason i would need to change how i am doing things by making sure i finish the work given to me at least a day before the deadline. If in the near future i will become a rather successful person using crowdfunding, i could give some tips to other people that are actually doing crowdfunding as well.

Problems in the industry and how you can deal with it.

Before my class of the Overview of the Industry, i received an email about how all artistic industries share a problem as well as how their employees have problems themselves. I understood a lot from the information, like how some in most industries they create appropriate working environment to help the workers with their work and what problems they faced. In class we discussed about what problems the industries faced  according to our own knowledge. Although, most of them were similar in some ways. Some of the thoughts included how the artists become unemployed after they finish their project and publish it, another being the fact that most people want to work on one particular area in the industry. The report i read was somewhat new to me, because i did not know some of the things that was mentioned in there. For example the Informality section, i did not know that the industry had a very creative work space for their artists. The Long Hours section was intuitive for me however, because i know that animation takes a long time to make. Although some animators write the story board, draw sketches of animation and then make a final animation, i do things differently. I just draw a comic strip of the scene and then try and animate it. I do this differently because i feel more comfortable looking a pictures that just reading. In class i told about how having more skills in your choice of industry will help you gain more recognition and allow you you to teach others to fasten the workflow of the project. This is supporting the Short Term work that was talked in the webpage. By having variety of skills, you can get more job opportunities. Although, this will mean less time for yourself and your social time. This also has to be seen from the customers point of view. If you have variety of skills, the customers will surely want to hire you, but later on you might not get the project ready on time and the customer looses interest. So with all these points i can determine what to do properly in the future. I would gain more skills and learn how to manage my time. Also i could help out others if they came across an obstacle.