Our guest today has founded his own company, been featured alongside Mercedes-Benz, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar released a course on how to get started creating 3D art and is on a mission to bring more sustainability and representation via virtual models through 3D art. Impressive? Well, he has done this all by the age of 16!

Lucas Klubb a Melbourne-based creative with a passion for graphic design in its 2D and 3D forms. He is the founder and artistic director of Klubb Visuals, which works on filter-creation, CGI avatar creation, and commercial graphic design. The young teen has worked with a multitude of clients and worked on many different passion projects throughout the years.

Lucas is wise beyond his years and shares valuable expertise on how he taught himself 3D art, the importance of passion projects, and leverage what you love as a way to generate leads, and gives us a snapshot into the possibilities of virtual reality.

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Can't believe this is the last episode of Season 2! Just wanted to say a huge thank you to all of our amazing guests and listeners. Your support means the world and I hope this podcast has brought you some sort of inspiration over the past year. Here at Pexels, we are all about moving forward and staying optimistic about what’s ahead. In this episode, we say an ode to 2020 and give you a sneak peek of the top visual trends to look out for in 2021 so you can get a head start. We talk about Pantone's Color of the Year and what that means to photographers, some of the most innovative shoots we've seen, and how people have managed to keep the creative juices flowing with one another through the community. 

It's been one heck of a year and we have so much more in store for Season 3 - so stay tuned! 

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Back again for the 2nd year is our annual Pexelspalooza! This year is bigger and better, with 10 epic challenges and $150000 in prizing to be won.

Our guest this week is one of our judges for our Masterpiece photo challenge,  Ulrich Grill. Ulrich is a jack of all trades and a leader in the photography world, let alone a talented photographer himself who started shooting action sports. He is the founder of zooom productions, COOPH, and most recently, Red Bull Illume, known as “the world's greatest adventure and action sports imagery contest.”

We talk about the importance of finding your creative niche, and how that allowed him to craft a truly unique career path that marries all of his passions - sports, marketing/communications, and photography.

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Enter Pexelspalooza challenges: https://www.pexels.com/pexelspalooza

This week's episode is short and sweet but comes with a mighty challenge. Photographers - I challenge you to step in front of the camera and try out some self-portraits! While we may not be able to execute our shoots as per usual, this is a great opportunity to get outside of your comfort zone and test your creativity, not to mention improve your own directing skills by building empathy for your models. I give you my 3 self-portrait tips that are tested and true, so you can do it too. 

Submit your photos to our 2nd annual Pexelspalooza, where we are giving away $15,000 in prizing: https://www.pexels.com/pexelspalooza

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While in-person interactions may be limited, it doesn't mean your creative career has to be! In this week's episode, your host Wendy unpacks 3 easy ways in which you can start investing in your own career. We summarize the key patterns and findings through 20 hours of interviewing with ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things. Best of all, these easy tips don't require any startup costs, so you can start implementing them right away.

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While in-person interactions may be limited, it doesn't mean your creative career has to be! In this week's episode, your host Wendy unpacks 3 easy ways in which you can start investing in your own career. We summarize the key patterns and findings through 20 hours of interviewing with ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things. Best of all, these easy tips don't require any startup costs, so you can start implementing them right away.

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Our guest today is the wonderful Jia Wertz! As a young adult, Jia found an interest in pursuing stories about those who were wrongly convicted. She left a successful career in the fashion industry after 20 years to pursue documentary filmmaking, specializing in investigating the inconsistencies of the American Criminal Justice system.

Upon graduating from the New York Film Academy, she released her debut film Conviction, profiling the story of Jeffrey Deskovic, who was wrongly convicted of rape and murder at the age of 16. The heart-wrenching documentary explores the aftereffects of growing up in prison and the fight for freedom. Since the release, her film has been featured on Amazon Prime and has been selected for numerous festivals.

In this episode, we talk to Jia about how she accelerated her film career by taking thoughtful, efficient steps, which led to how quickly she saw success after just starting in the film world.

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Our conversation this week is with Anna Dickson, who is currently the Visual Lead at Google, formerly at The Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post. In times of uncertainty, she is an advocate for positive change and moving forward. In this episode, we talk about how to identify emerging opportunities and the best practices for staying on top of industry trends.

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How does a photography podcast work? This week's episode is a little bit different in that there will not be a special guest - just a one on one chat between me and you. I'll be spilling all the juicy details - from how podcasts have helped me make a career in music photography, landing me in front of Taylor Swift, John Mayer & Billie Eilish, to the inspiration behind Overexposed and how it can help you reach your own photography goals. 

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