I love this idea. I work from home as a freelance artist and a custom painter. And sitting in front of the computer or paintbooth by myself all day every day gets very lonesome. I'm love to do my freelance work with in the same office as other freelancers.
Provided freelancing stays in the area and isn't shipped off overseas some place it sounds viable. I like the idea, just not sure the shrinking niche market would pull in enough to pay for itself?
This is something I've given a lot of thought over the past couple years. Some freelance friends of mine have done it as well. I ended up joining a company full time to get out of my house and get some medical benefits instead. It's expensive and people/freelancers can be a bit unreliable. It's just the nature of contract…
Man, if i were freelancing still, I'd be all over this idea. One of the biggest reasons why I went back to a studio is that I would go days without ever saying anything...like realizing at 7pm that you haven't uttered a word all day. That's fucked up. Like Tyler mentioned, I'd be interested to know where you're looking…
This is an awesome idea (first time I've heard of it). Glad you're in Vancouver.:) I'm only working my first freelance(modeling) gig right now, but if work gets more consistent I would definitely consider this. For me, there would be a lot of additional costs on top to get started., such as a new Laptop/second PC and…
Tried to organize something like this a few times. But unfortunately it was way to difficult to manage. Trouble I ran into (maybe you can learn from it :P). - It took all my time, which made it impossible to do my freelance work. People mailed, phoned me all day with (stupid) questions. - Multiple people managing = getting…
Lamont has some good advice. It's a cool idea, but somebody is going to have to be the boss/landlord and keep the thing going in case people leave or don't pay. Assume everyone else will flake, but, like roommates, try and get good people to make commitments and it could work out very well. I always thought that if I was…
Someone on here did just that. He now is a head artist. Damn though, really cool guy (and willing to let people look at his rigs/models to see how done), but I have a memory like a sieve with names. Anyhow he hung around outside of Tucson doing that living out of a truck If I remember correctly. :::: Hey another bonus to…
Wow, great to see that there is some interest! Tyler - thanks for the thoughts and advice. We are definitly going to be drawing up a good contract if we do it. It was my first worry as well. We would be looking into some of the other stuff you mentioned. Part of the plan is to hopefully set it up in a sort of co-op manner.…