Tips for Listing Freelance on Resume

nyx702

Hey PC

I am trying to update my resume and I am curious how you guys list your freelance experience on your resume. I have been getting 1-2 month contracts for different clients for a while now. Both individuals and companies. My predicament is that I am kinda running out of room to list them along with a description of what I did. Should I ditch the description and just list the client/title/date?

The other thing is I am not sure how to list things for individuals. These have mainly been for indie/Kickstarter people that don't have a legitimate company or website. Should I just not even bother listing these?

Also, do you think it looks bad when I have a slew of 1-2 month contracts?

Thanks for any thoughts.

brwnbread

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ambershee

On my CV I just have a section that says something like "various freelance contracts".

Equanim

If you've done some work for established studios, I would definitely list those in order of most recent/well known. You can list the lesser known studios as well but put either "(startup)" or "(indie)" after their name. Anyone who works in this industry will know what that means. If an individual doesn't have a company, (or at least a site associated with their name) I probably wouldn't list them, especially if you can fill that space with studio work.

Don't worry about having only 1-2 month contracts, that's how it goes for freelances sometimes.

Here's how I usually list things...

SomeCompany - "Title Of Project" (If noteworthy, e.g. a game.)
Modeler and Texture Artist
Modeled and textured props and environment assets.
May 2012 - Oct 2012

Hope that helps!

Ferg

I just list the start and end dates of my freelance period in the header of that section, then list the project and my job:

November 2010 – Present
Freelance 3D Artist
Projects:
– Blacklight: Retribution – characters
– Firefall – props
– 3D Artist Magazine article – “Shadowboxing with Style” – Zbrush 4 feature tutorial
– 3D Artist Magazine article – “Frankenstein Monster-style stitches” – Zbrush 4 tutorial
– 3D Artist Magazine gallery feature – “Blockhead” – artist showcase
– Infamous 2 – characters
– League of Legends – characters, props
– Signal Studios – Unannounced Project – characters

http://www.monkeyknifefights.com/resumecontact.html

(I should probably update that some time soon, definitely not current)

nyx702

Thank you that was helpful.

@Ferg
I see you don't list very much information about what you did on the projects. Do you feel that has been an issue ever? Sometimes I struggle to list stuff I did on 1-2 month contracts. Sometimes "made characters" is all I really did. Don't have much more to put down haha.