Produced By - Insight #20 - Dariush Asadi: Adopt This Mindset To Deal With Not Ideal Situations

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

Dariush Asadi is a London based filmmaker, currently working as a freelance script writer for Omens Studios, a Singaporean animation studio, on a popular preschool series on YouTube. In addition, he writes for Lava Moon Studios' next animated mystery-adventure television programme. He completed a BA in film, where he trained to work in various placements and short films and documentaries fulfilling roles throughout all departments and stages of the film. While pursuing his passion for writing, he’s also working as a paid research assistant. We talk a lot about time management because Dariush managed to balance two part-time jobs and schoolwork while the world was hit by the global pandemic. Listen to this episode to learn more about what it takes to write for animation, how Dariush manages to work with different companies around the world and be motivated to follow your ambitions. Connect with Dariush: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariush-asadi-585444a8/?originalSubdomain=uk https://www.instagram.com/dariushcreates/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQmTPTtySdy-_ih8EktnXSg https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7849078/ Episode quotes: “Despite me not knowing anything about animation at the time, but I just wanted to get in. 99% of me said to do it and the 1% was like, you're taking over someone's space who actually knows about animation. So I said no to that 1%.” “I had to look at the designs of their shows and I thought, wow, this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.” “Whenever I'm writing for the characters it sounds like I'm hanging out with friends.”  “Then I learned to take pride in what I do. I followed that advice as it was something that I'd never had experience in. I just had to learn as much as I can, work hard and it’s fine now.” “I'm willing to push forward, learn as much as I can and try to find my way around this in industry.” Connect with the podcaster: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tomasloucky.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasloucky/⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/thisistommen/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow the podcast: 🌐 Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://produced-by-podcast.com/⁠⁠ 🔗 Links: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/produced_by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   💬 Contact: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://produced-by-podcast.com/contact⁠⁠ 📷 Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://instagram.com/produced_by_podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  🎥 YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5LHnM6YCaeVzIr0WatOsw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  ✉️ Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/produced-by/id1684669642⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🎙️ About Produced By Podcast: Produced By brings you exciting stories of brave people who set out to build careers in competitive fields despite often challenging circumstances. Whether you are interested in creative industries, personal development or want to have some fun, enter the spotlight along with our guests and get inspired. Listen to people coming from all parts of the world, diverse fields of expertise and different levels of careers. So join us to follow their journeys, learn from life experience and embark on a great adventure. 🤩 If you enjoy listening to the podcast, please, leave a review on your podcast app, subscribe or share it with your friends. You can also send us a message and share any feedback, advice and tips for guests. 📭 Subscribe at ⁠⁠https://produced-by-podcast.com/subscribe⁠⁠ so that you don't miss out! #producedbypodcast #producedby #enterthespotlight  Enjoy! Connect with Tomas:X: https://x.com/TomasLoucky⁠⁠⁠Stan: https://stan.store/TommenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasloucky/⁠⁠Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisistommen/⁠⁠Unproduced:Newsletter: https://unproduced.substack.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unproducednotesSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033Ddo8ibDlLYoaP7FFLIWMore:Links: https://linktr.ee/produced_by⁠⁠⁠Newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://producednewsletter.substack.com/⁠The Podcast Club: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/25420030/Tools & gear that support the show:Metricool: https://f.mtr.cool/HRJBZKRiverside: https://riverside.sjv.io/vDnDodFavikon: https://www.favikon.com?fpr=tommenRa Optics: https://ra-optics.myshopify.com/discount/TOMMEN?rfsn=8803777.591d19JamX: https://jamx.ai/podcasters-offer?ref_id=e02d48af-ef66-4e76-b804-c2e8d282a8bfSome links are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. If you find them useful, using these links helps keep the podcast running. Thank you!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

And what about the other joke you've got? The Lava Moon Studios one. Yes. Can you say a bit more about it? Oh yeah, sure, yeah, yeah. I found that opportunity the same as with the Singapore job. It's in Rising Animators then, so that was the one for everyone. The creator of the show, Jake Chishon Patel, posted on Rad saying that he needed writers or pitch show.

And I thought to myself, like, okay, I have no idea what the show is, but animation writing gigs are scarce. So I reached out to him And then I said, I'm interested And then he sent me the website And he said, let's have a talk And then I looked at the website Unfortunately, the website is under maintenance at the moment So I let you know

Yeah, I had to look at the designs Of their shows And I thought to myself like, wow, this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. The animation is stunning, beautiful. But there was one particular project That really caught my eye

And I loved the characters And the complex story, the mystery element, which was Secrets of Grindelba. So it had that mystery element, it had that fantasy element. It reminded me of all the shows that I loved watching, like Gravity Balls, Amphibia, that recently watched. It was a really great show. And it also had like mystery elements, like Avatar, The Last Airbender, pretty much reminiscent to all fantasy films like The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones.

So I messaged him and I said, which show am I working on? And he said, Secrets of Grandelba, and I was like, yes. But then I remember that he said, I'm looking for a writer for a show pitch and I thought to myself, show pitch. Okay, so am I writing for the content on Kickstarter? Which I've had experience in doing in Millsex because, yeah, you know, like in Millsex we had the like

fund our film right down on the crowd to raise money. But yeah, I've had experience and funding stuff. But he said, you're writing for it. And I was like, yes. You're one of the writers, actually. So I was like, yeah, I love working in a team. So we've been working on the show for like, we've been trying to work on the various stages of the show for about a year or so

and it's really picking up. I can't say anything yet. I mean, you can find it on social media like at Lava Moon Studios on Instagram and you'll see like we recently just posted an April Fool's post. I'm just looking at it. Animation is beautiful, yeah. Yeah, it's really beautiful, yeah. And the characters are beautiful as well.

Like whenever I'm writing for the characters, I'm like, it sounds like I'm hanging out with friends. Because like the main character's Rune, who is the purple mushroom girl. If for example, if I'm running for Roon, I'm thinking, oh, let's see what Roon's doing. Let's see what Bo is doing. Bo is her friend over there. The guy with the yellow thing around his eye. Yeah.

So like, I can't wait for everyone to see the characters and see their story. And is this secret of Green Gilles Vime film or TV series or what is it going to be? It's a TV series. We're working on the pilot right now and trying to get it off the ground. And we're hopefully going to develop it into a series. Wow, yeah. So is cool.