Bacon Wrapped Avocado: Creativity UnWrapped
Laurel Mojica
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About This Podcast
Are you an artist in search of other artists who are working to make their passion their career? Are you interested in the work-life struggles of other creators? The gear, software, or workflows used to create animations in Unreal Engine? Real-world feedback on different marketing strategies and platforms?
In this podcast, Jose and Laurel Mojica, co-founders of the Bacon Wrapped Avocado VR animation studio, talk about their creative journey, the technology they’ve used and are still using, their efforts at marketing and audience-building, and trying to start up a business while raising three teenagers, connecting with their two grown children, their aging parents, their siblings, and maybe even a friend or two…oh, yeah, and a full-time day job..
Bacon Wrapped Avocado is a virtual reality animation studio creating content for the Meta Quest Headset and YouTube.
Jose and Laurel Mojica are working with their team, artist Meescha Dare and Unreal Engine developer Giovanni Minus, to launch an app for the Meta Quest headsets that features their family-friendly humor-horror characters.
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S1E8 Pregnancy (hypothetical!), pain avoidance, editing, releasing, and choosing what to work on next
Jose and Laurel consider the impact of 2-week-long pregnancies on birth rates as a metaphor for artists avoiding the pain of criticism or rejection. They also discuss which parts of the creative…
S1E7 Patience with Gear, Brainstorming Mindsets, and an Animation Update
In the first section, Jose and Laurel talk about how they use their new Fostex RM3-DT Active Rack-mount Monitor with Dante and their Triad-Orbit T3C Tripod. They also discuss the challenges of…
S1E6 Black Friday Sales and Writing Tools
Jose and Laurel talk about mics and preamps, Black Friday sales and the history of some audio clones. Then they take a deep dive into some of the pros and cons of writing software: Storyist,…
S1E5 Creativity Under Stress
In this episode, Jose and Laurel talk about how negative things can make it hard to be creative, and some of the ways combat that. They also discuss the expansion of their recording area and their…
S1E4 AI: Competition or Tool?
Jose and Laurel discuss their experiences with and opinions of Artificially Intelligent audiobook readers, YouTube narrators, and social media post readers; James Earl Jones, Disney, and SAG…
S1E3 New Gear, Part Two
Admittedly, the decision to purchase gear and the effects that it has on our productivity is a favorite topic of ours. Also, I'm pretty sure Episode One was supposed to be a test run but I really…
S1E2 Marketing...and a bit of our VR workflow
Jose and Laurel talk about their most difficult hurdle in creating---marketing! If you've ever poured your heart into a project, then released it into the world to the sound of crickets, you know our…
S1E1 New Gear--Necessary Purchase or Procrastination Tactic?
In their inaugural episode, Jose and Laurel discuss the lure of new gear and some extreme views about buying it.
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Bacon Wrapped Avocado: Creativity UnWrapped has published 8 episodes since November 2024, covering topics in Arts, Business.
Bacon Wrapped Avocado: Creativity UnWrapped is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 35m.
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