Are your meetings starting to feel like a bad remake of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off every time someone asks if you can see their screen?  “Bueller? ….Bueller?”  When’s the last time you wasted time trying to dig up a doc during a meeting because you couldn’t find what you were looking for exactly when you needed it?   Nowadays, simple chat features on Slack or Zoom just don’t cut it. Teams are more scattered than ever having to re-orient themselves and re-assemble project materials in different apps.   When your communication and collaboration tools work in tandem, you a ..read more

For many of us, video meetings have become like driving or showering: so routine and unremarkable, you don’t even think about them. When you do think about them, you might be reminded just how odd it is to meet this way. Participants stare passively at their screens in a there-but-not-there dreamlike state. No one interacts except to occasionally talk over each other. And then there’s the “off camera” button—a magic trick that allows people to disappear from the meeting completely. It’s a strange environment and the perfect creative sandbox for a team of animators to explore what’s really goin ..read more

Of the over two million federal employees and four million contractors in active government service, only three percent were full-time teleworkers prior to the pandemic. Practically overnight, that number shot up to 59 percent in March of 2020.  The public sector wasn’t shielded from the global shift that the COVID-19 pandemic rippled throughout the entire world. Essentially building the plane as it was in flight, various public sector teams scrambled to create an uncharted working environment while maintaining a pivotal level of security. The humbling realities of hybrid and fully-remote ..read more

If you could have a superpower, what would it be? We want to be super organizers! Whether working remotely or in the same room, setting up the right workflow to build ideas is crucial to any project. This is why the Bluescape Community recently hosted a live training session to show users how to build a customized virtual space to smooth out collaboration, centralize work and stay in lockstep with your team. The first of three sessions in their Build in Bluescape series focused on organizing your ideas in a collaborative workspace. The Community Team Lead Stefanie Olesh kicked off the session ..read more

Matt Taylor, a director at the animation studio Titmouse, was gracious enough to meet with the Bluescape team to discuss remote animation production and share some of his experiences using Bluescape. A Conversation with Matt Taylor Matt explains that when he directed the award-winning Rick and Morty Exquisite Corpse, the global team of animators used many of the same techniques that are used for remote work today. While some coordination was involved in order to create the transitions as one animator picked up where the last animator left off, the full team never collaborated all together at ..read more

Creative work is invigorating. Searching your instant messages for scattered Google docs? Not so much. Working extra hours because a note was missed in one of your dozen communication tools? Definitely not. Save your seat for our new Build in Bluescape live sessions to learn best practices for streamlined team collaboration in a hybrid or remote work environment. Join the Bluescape Community to see how you can build a customized virtual space to smooth out collaboration processes, stay in lockstep with your team, and stop losing project materials while file sharing across a plethora of cloud-b ..read more

The entertainment industry is diving into new ways to deliver content-rich, immersive experiences to consumers around the world. A prime example of this stems from a project based on one of the most loved franchises of all time. The wizards behind The Bureau of Magic (BoM) Studio are relaunching their Emmy-Award-winning animated show Lost in Oz with a techy twist. In an innovative collaboration between BoM and SIMBA Chain – showing how blockchain technology is reshaping customer engagement in the entertainment sector – BoM is set to launch its upcoming Passport to Oz NFT collection through SIM ..read more

Bluescape is honored to announce that it has achieved a critical security standard that expands access to its leading online whiteboard and virtual workspace solution across the U.S. Federal Government and the Department of Defense. Here at Bluescape, we’ve committed to delivering the highest security standards to our public sector customers. This is why we’re excited to share that we’ve achieved an elite security designation for software providers: the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Impact Level 5 (IL5).  This authorization builds on the IL4 designation that Bluescape received in 2021 fro ..read more

Remote Work Secrets from 3 Hit Shows How did the creator of The Blacklist develop a hit NBC series after moving more than 1,000 miles from his team of writers? How did the creators of the children’s series Go! Go! Cory Carson on Netflix persevere after COVID shut down their studio spaces? How did the executive producer of the upcoming series Shōgun navigate FX’s largest international scale production? We asked, and they shared their stories. Meet the Creators We interviewed the creators of three TV shows. Their projects had one thing in common: during pre-production, the creators a ..read more

It’s easy to get stuck in your ways – even if your ways are just plain bad. But in order to stay inspired and productive, you have to get your processes and animation workflows back on track. Start by auditing what you’re doing at every stage of the animation process; pre-production, production, and post-production. Once the hard part is over, you’ll be able to see what’s not working and where breakdowns happen so that you can improve on them.  Whether you’re a freelance animator or working with a team at an animation studio, you always need to focus on bringing the best version of yourse ..read more