Jesus Suarez is a Motion Designer originally from Venezuela. He shares moving the the US to make a career and life for his family. An inspiring discussion. Host Blair Walker also discusses his work for Prophets of Rage and his approach to learning 3D.

**Show Notes:** Compiled by [Matt Lloyd](http://inkmotor.com/)

00.41 - Jesus introduces himself and his work at [Battle Media Lab](https://www.battlemedialab.com/)

03.20 - [Prophets Of Rage music video](http://jesussuarez.tv/prophets-of-rage-music-video)

04.15 - Discussion of [Behance](https://www.behance.net)

04.45 - [Mitch Myers on School Of Motion](https://www.schoolofmotion.com/podcast/mitch-meyers-interview)

05.30 - The challenge of keeping current on social media

05.55 - How [Slack](https://slack.com/) groups can help you connect, and help others solve problems

07.30 - Jesus is heading in to more cinematic 3d work now

08.25 - Jesus’s approach to learning C4D

09.17 - [Jordan Jack animation](https://vimeo.com/254516259)

09.55 - [EJ Hassenfratz](http://www.eyedesyn.com/), the Sketch n Toon guru

10.30 - [Fusion 360](https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/students-teachers-educators): problems getting a good mesh in to C4D

11.10 - Jesus loves [Substance Painter](https://www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-painter)

11.30 - How motion designers can have the role of educating clients/creatives as to what’s possible with the software

15.00 - Blair asks about the challenge of learning and connecting with the motion industry with English as a second language

16.00 - About the [Full Sail University](https://www.fullsail.edu/) course Jesus did

19.00 - Jesus’s short term goals: to work on short films and title sequences

19.50 - The enormous workload Jesus put himself under in order to get involved with making title sequences as a freelancer on top of his day job.

20.20 - The influence of [Elastic](https://elastic.tv/) on Jesus, especially the [Westworld titles](https://elastic.tv/project/westworld/)

21.50 - About Florida as a motion design community

25.10 - The Venezuela motion graphics scene, and why it is a small community

26.50 - The great challenge of being far from one’s homeland.

28.00 - What Jesus hopes to gain from making a short film

29.20 - **Pro Video Picks:**

[The French Monkey](https://www.tfmstyle.com/)

31.25 - **Following Online:**

[Ash Thorpe](https://www.behance.net/ashthorp)

[Mitch Myers](https://www.mitchmyers.tv/)

[Elastic](https://elastic.tv/)

32.00 - **Sources of Inspiration:**

Ash Thorpe again

[Collective Podcast](http://www.thecollectivepodcast.com/)

[Akira Tribute](https://www.behance.net/gallery/65092569/AWAKEN-AKIRA)

33.07 - **Follow Jesus Online:**

[instagram](https://www.instagram.com/j.ssuarez/)

[twitter](https://twitter.com/j_ssuarez?lang=en)

33.28 - **Who should we have on the show?**

[Friendly Robot](https://www.behance.net/friendlyrobot)

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