The Hero’s Journey in Paris: Career Management for Heroes

Attention all artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, actors, and anyone working in creative fields — even if your chosen profession is not the most traditional one, cultivating and growing a successful, financially rewarding career is still your goal. In Career Management for Heroes in Paris Peter de Kuster provides you with expert advice on overcoming some of…

The Hero’s Journey of Giuseppe Leto

What is the best thing that I love about my work?What I love most about my work is that it allows me to travel, discover new cultures, and meet people from all over the world. Every encounter enriches me and teaches me something new about life and about myself. What is my idea of happiness?My…

The Hero’s Journey of Greg Thomas

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I appreciate the opportunity and the challenge of assisting young people who are in jeopardy of not completing their high school education. They are lost due to real world circumstances and education is lost in the shuffle of their lives. What is my idea…

The Hero’s Journey of Daniele Basso

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The opportunity to transform personal emotions into universal messages, in which others can recognize themselves, recognize part of their own history and discover part of their own identity. Picture credits: Stefano Ceretti  What is my idea of happiness? To be at peace in any…

The Hero’s Journey of Baz Black

What is the best thing that I love about my work? As both a filmmaker and an actor, my greatest passion lies in the ability to tell stories that evoke genuine emotions in people. Since I was a child, I have been obsessed with film, captivated by the magic of storytelling and its power to…

The Hero’s Journey of Paul Falla

What is the best thing that I love about my work? It’s not one thing, it’s everything. The variety. One day it’s copy for a worldwide energy storage organisation, the next, a script for a London company that makes cartoon animations. The pressure of tight deadlines. “I need it in an hour” is not uncommon….

The Hero’s Journey of Derek Masterson

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Self expression. Even when I write in different character’s voices I’m saying something of my outlook on the world, or of my world. I often joke that writing is a cheaper alternative to therapy, but it really is a wonderful means of cleansing the mind,…

The Hero’s Journey of Thomas Terry-Williams

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love a challenge some characters are easier to play than others. I usually start my work by finding the traits the Character has that I have. I ultimately play different versions of myself. Sometimes the characters I play are very different to me…

The Hero’s Journey of Carlos Benitez

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am passionate about my work because it allows me to craft compelling narratives and convey messages that contribute to social change. What is my idea of happiness? My idea of happiness is to be healthy and creative for many, many years. What is…

The Hero’s Journey of Nick Cahalane

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love writing music, and if I can do that for work, I will have no complaints. What is my idea of happiness? I don’t know that happiness exists as a state of being. It is a fleeting emotion. It is a memory. What…

The Hero’s Journey of Andrew David Barker

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the process, the act of creating. Whether writing or filmmaking, I love being deep in the story I’m telling. Writing is a solitary act, for the most part, and I love to be alone, immersed in the story, whereas film is collaborative,…

The Hero’s Journey of Claus Raasted

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love best about my work is that I get to make a difference in people’s lives while doing things I thoroughly enjoy. It sounds banal, but it’s very much true. What is my idea of happiness? My idea of happiness is to…

The Hero’s Journey of Benn Wiebe

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love stories. Everyone has one. In fact we have many. Not everyone feels they have a voice though. Or a voice that is cared about, seen, or heard. And working in film, television, games, live events, provides me opportunities to spotlight and amplify…

The Hero’s Journey of Walter Filho

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Touch other lives with my creations. Reading comments from people saying how what I write and draw touched them doesn’t have a price.  What is my idea of happiness? Consciousness. Consciousness to know that every single day has its own lesson and guide me…

The Hero’s Journey of Jackson Macena

What is the best thing I love about my job?  There are many good things in him, I myself  I remember practicing art since I was just a child, and today  As an artist   I realize that  Art is not just a profession, but a source of truth  Deira fulfillment and happiness. My job…

The Hero’s Journey of Bagia Dragos

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I enjoy expressing my thoughts, dreams, and subconscious messages just as they are. What is my idea of happiness? Without fear, without wishes, without attachments, that is pure happiness! It is so simple to be happy but so difficult to be simple… What is…

The Hero’s Journey of Shantanu Warghade

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Since I was a kid, I would draw and paint repeatedly because somewhere it’s the inheritance. Later I explored my paintings into an ‘IDEA’ where I drew characters or environments, weapons, Props etc. After graduation, I met some illustrious artists. I knew there was…

The Hero’s Journey of Dmitriy Kapin

What is the best thing that I love about my work? When I write a story I feel as if I actually live the lives of my characters. This opportunity to experience something I would never be able to do in reality is what inspires me the most in my job. What is my idea…

The Hero’s Journey of Alfonso Gutierrez Manzanos

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Passion. I cannot understand (my) work without passion. Work is a gift, an opportunity to serve others and key to help ourselves set course to achieve our goals in life. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is when you smile in the morning…

The Hero’s Journey of Juri Wald

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love about my work the opportunity to fully express my creativity. What I also really appreciate is the flexibility of working times, which allows me to organize my day independently. And of course, I like it when my efforts lead to measurable results…

The Hero’s Journey of Adekunle Lawal

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing i love about filmmaking is the ability to tell stories that resonate with individuals in respective of their diversity in religion, beliefs and culture. The joy of bringing characters to life and turning these scripted characters into screen icons is something…

The Hero’s Journey of Stas Skiba

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The fact that video editing and production in general is at something of a turning point. On the one hand – the volume of video production today is staggering. On the other hand – the volume of automated tools is increasing and I would…

The Hero’s Journey of Davide Conti

What is the most beautiful thing I love about my work? The possibility of communicating stories, enigmas and reflections on our contemporary world through images and songs What is my idea of happiness? To illustrate through images and cantiche mysteries that have not yet been revealed, and to be able to dedicate myself to this…

The Hero’s Journey of Isaiah Joshua Lawrence

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I usually like to do to experiment with any ideas popping up in my head is to draw and paint and write stories and poems. Whenever I’m writing a poem and I feel like there are unheard of punchlines and effective messages, as…

The Hero’s Journey of Joseph A. Miller

What is the best thing that I love about my work? It entertains, and distracts me. What is my idea of happiness? A loaded paint-brush. What is my greatest fear? Exposing my greatest fear. What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? I like way too much cream in my coffee. Which living…

The Hero’s Journey of Bobby Friedman

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love being able to get a meaningful message or idea on my audience’s radar through comedy. Laughing to me is the most instinctual reaction to entertainment, and it’s a wonderful hook to saying something more meaningful to my audience.  What is my idea…

The Hero’s Journey of Roger Gonçalves Dias

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The possibility of transforming spaces through illustrations is something that fascinates me. I get excited about the idea of participating in projects where my art can add value, whether it’s on a coffee cup or book covers. If people, when they look at my…

The Hero’s Journey of Igor Komorni

What do I like most about my job? The creative process. I come up with a story and create it in a picture. A new interesting world appears, which did not exist before. Knowing that the characters I have invented, either historical or living, will live for centuries and will be seen by future generations,…

The Hero’s Journey of Alexandru Marinete

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I find myself in every piece of stone, to which I transfer sublime feelings. The elegance and hardness of my marble challenges me to discover its story. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness for an artist represents spiritual fulfillment. Professionally speaking, I find…

The Hero’s Journey of Siddharth Salgaonkar

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing that has always fascinated me the most about being in the creative field, is the opportunity to tell new stories. Just the mere concept of weaving a whole new world full of characters you created is fulfilling enough and is what made…

The Hero’s Journey of Ben Yew

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Connecting with awesome people, listen to their stories, be inspired and capture their creative storytelling portraits. What is my idea of happiness? A perfect balance of passion, family and creative adventure What is my greatest fear? My greatest fear is that I have no control…

The Hero’s Journey of Jordan Morris

What is the best thing that I love about my work? When I coach I get every bit as much out of the experience as my clients do. You learn when you teach and I gain a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles of effective storytelling every time I go through the process. And, the…

The Hero’s Journey of Robert Woodhall

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Meeting people from different walks of life, sharing our creative energy and telling stories that are not my own, hopefully to move, entertain and share my passion with my audience. What is my idea of happiness? To do the thing I love, to get…

The Hero’s Journey of Courtney Sell

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Being an independent Filmmaker, I absolutely love the freedom I have to explore and document so many different subject matters. My career in the filmmaking world has begun to strictly center around the documentary genre in the last few years, so it’s been such…

The Hero’s Journey of Jon Carlson

What is the best thing that I love about my work? It’s so much fun to create characters from within. You get a chance to be so many different people and look at life through different perspectives, it’s truly fulfilling work actually , quite an honor to experience these these different facets of everyday life….

The Hero’s Journey of Shaool Levy

What is the best thing that I love about my work I’m an animator and I love seeing my work come to life. Starting from a small static drawing, I try to think about what my sketch is thinking, his attitude and demeanor. I give it attributes from the people I see, and add a…

The Hero’s Journey of Ettore Albert

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing is probably the absence of rules – and the absolute freedom that comes with it. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is when I already look forward to tomorrow today What is my greatest fear? … I don’t know if…

The Hero’s Journey of Wilfred B. Njeru

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Immediate Impact. When you work in Radio or TV or any Media, you get instant response from your audiences. Unlike social media though, there is a level of responsibility, meaning we have to measure and test our messaging everytime, bit still, to interact on…

The Hero’s Journey of Shahab Daryani

What is the best thing that I love about my work? My job is so challenging, and I do love struggling with challenges. Nothing is impossible for me; I always look forward to different solutions when I am facing issues. What is my idea of happiness? I believe that happiness is a puzzle; it has…

The Hero’s Journey of Jomiguel

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What i love about my work is the positive impact it has on people. Especially the transmission of inspiration, emotion, motivation, atmosphere, dreams. Many people find themselves in my songs because my stories are real. What is my idea of happiness? My happiness comes…

The Hero’s Journey of Sebastian Dove

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The variety of life stories, mindsets, and goals in the people I work with. What is my idea of happiness? A life well lived. To do as little harm to others as possible. What is my greatest fear? Giving up.   What is the trait…

The Hero’s Journey of Massimo Ivan Falsetta

What is the best thing that I love about my work? the possibility of bringing fictional characters to our planet. It is the experience that brings a man closer to God. What is my idea of happiness? my idea of ​​happiness is to come home and see the smiles of my wife and children. Still…

The Hero’s Journey of Raphael Sommer

What is the best thing I love about my work? I love my freedom as an artist and that I can always try new things. It was never my goal to become a composer and yet I slipped into this profession. To this day it is a strange but wonderful feeling when a symphony of…

The Hero’s Journey of Vishnu Rajendran

What is the best thing I love about my work? As a cinematographer and editor, my work involves creating and capturing visual content for films, whether they be full-length movies or short films. Based in Los Angeles, I have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects and collaborate with other talented professionals in…

The Hero’s Journey of Aleksey Korneev

What is the best thing that I love about my work? As a curator and art manager, I deal with a lot of different processes – from promoting artists outside of projects to fully developing exhibitions, including concept writing, fundraising, and various installation issues – you have to be part of literally every element of…

The Hero’s Journey of James Morgan

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The freedom  What is my idea of happiness?  Freedom What is my greatest fear? Being stagnant and complacent  What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? That I put others people’s needs before my own Which living persons in my profession do I most…

The Hero’s Journey of Omer Faruk Günalan

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’m a creative game writer. I construct original game universes, determine the unique rules of that universes, and prepare fun gameplay elements per these rules. My favorite part is thinking about new ideas and creative systems shaped by those ideas at the very beginning…

The Hero’s Journey of Tray Grant

What is the best thing that I love about my work?  I believe storytelling allows me to connect with people from different backgrounds. It allows me to not only entertain, but connect with others on a deeper level. I tell stories to help deliver bigger messages that may not be seen throughout everyday life. There’s…

The Hero’s Journey of Evtim Todorov

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing that I love the most about my work is that allows me to create art that inspires and hopefully transports people to other better places. What is my idea of happiness? My idea of happiness is, being with loved ones, friends, making…

The Hero’s Journey of Mujiyono Sutarno

What is the best thing that I love about my work? My personal taste. It’s unique and you can’t find this thing in other places. If we talk about technical data or method, I love how I find the colors. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is the way of life. honesly I still…

The Hero’s Journey of Gilchrist Domingo

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love about my work is the possibility of sharing my inner world with people through my stories and characters. As a comic artist, I would like to show all the legends of my country to every single person. What is my idea of…

The Hero’s Journey of Pradeep Matthew

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I would say the continuous mode of creativity on a daily basis even outside my work. I am able to create my visual storytelling through a phone so I just go everywhere and shoot. What is my idea of happiness? Success and reaching a…

The Hero’s Journey of Emmanuel Oghieaga

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is my originality. I see my works as an avenue to educate and enlighten the world at large about the rich and intriguing folklores, histories and cultural heritage of Nigeria as a people and as a…

The Hero’s Journey of William Naski

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Improving myself What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is an energy like everything in the universe. And certainly, we can feel this energy as much as possible by maintaining the right balance in all aspects of our life. What is my greatest fear?…

The Hero’s Journey of Eugene Fedorchenko

WHAT IS THE BEST THING THAT I LOVE ABOUT MY WORK? To be in process of creating worlds. Bringing them out of my mind into the real environment WHAT IS MY IDEA OF HAPPINESS? At least not to lose myself on the shaky road. WHAT IS MY GREATEST FEAR? Fear of aging in loneliness. WHAT…

The Hero’s Journey of Flavio Roberto Mota

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing I love most about my work is knowing that, as difficult as the reality of an artist in Brazil today is, having a job and an initiative to carry out projects that are not committed to any interest that is not 100%…

The Hero’s Journey of Anatoliy Gromov

What is the best thing that I love about my work?  I work as a narrative designer, and before that I worked as a game writer. What I like most about my job is coming up with cool stuff. Creativity is a big part of my job. It’s especially nice to know that people around…

The Hero’s Journey of Stephan van de Kimmenade

Stephan van de Kimmenade loves building brands with heart and soul. A profession he is set to make his own since the eighties. Challenges and experiences helped him understand how thorough research can reveal the core and the ambition of a brand. With the outcome he creates an impactful brand positioning. Stephan does everything with…

The Hero’s Journey of Gabriel Mota

What is the best thing that I love about my work? what i love about my work, it’s the possibility of transmitting an idea, creating doubt. share the light I encountered on my journey. I believe art should unite us and give us strength against the unknown. What is my idea of happiness? my idea of happiness is…

The Hero’s Journey of Yunis Seyfan

What is the best thing that I love about my work? -Creating unique and interesting environments and trying to tell a story using interesting shapes and atmosphere . What is my idea of happiness? -Knowing that people that i love are happy and have a peaceful life What is my greatest fear? -losing the people…

The Hero’s Journey of Abasseno Uko

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing that I love about work is the process of working on the film production with a seasoned crew, honest investor and coming up with an award winning movie project that the audience will have tons of fun watching in the cinemas…

The Hero’s Journey of Jahi Trotter

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work is that I can express myself in so many different ways and use my passion to let out a lot of what I feel inside. What is my idea of happiness?  Continue doing what I am doing. What is…

The Hero’s Journey of Dmitrii Yarin

What is the best thing that I love about my work? For me the most rewarding thing about working as a game designer is the opportunity to create meaningful experiences for other people to enjoy. The thought of players being deeply impacted by the art I created is what really makes me happy. What is…

The Hero’s Journey of Kick Stals

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing is being able to visualize my perception on things. The images in my head can be translated to something other people can see as well. Everyone has their own vision, idea’s and opinions and being a creator means that you can…

The Hero’s Journey of Andy van Stiphout

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Creating stories from scratch, becoming completely lost in my self-created worlds, and spending too many hours getting lost in them. I love telling these stories to other people and seeing their reactions. Making people enthusiastic and seeing them having fun warms my heart. That…

The Hero’s Journey of Madan Lal

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing is my morning habit of drawing in my sketchbook. Just sitting in front of the canvas fills me with color and energy allover. I never paint without energy. The energy I gain with a feeling to paint in the morning helps…

The Hero’s Journey of Benjamin Peurey

What is the best thing about my job that I like? There are many, but let’s mention two: on the one hand, its ability to make me understand the world, through the problems of my clients, which are both very numerous and very different because they come from various sectors. And on the other hand,…

The Hero’s Journey of Romuald Cassiaux

What is the best thing that I love about my work? As a writer, it is true that I am often immersed in archives. I read a lot. So there’s “Indiana Jones” aspect, always looking for one crucial piece of information, but I think I get even more pleasure out of putting all these discoveries…

The Hero’s Journey of Christian Dorsan

What is the best thing I love about my job? I like to invent, create, give life to my imagination, go deep to find what could be common to the greatest number What is my idea of ​​happiness? Serenity What is my biggest fear? The addiction What trait do I most deplore in myself? Impatience…

The Hero’s Journey of Matthias Aberle

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I can make up stories and bring them to life while being largely my own master. What is my idea of happiness? I have a great family. Everyone is healthy and doing well. My children study interesting subjects or are successful in school. We…

The Hero’s Journey of Laurent Le Baube

What’s the best thing I love about my job? The best thing about my job as a novelist is to sit down in the morning with my cup of coffee or tea in front of my computer and attack the writing of the opus I’m working on! Once the novel is finished, it is meet…

The Hero’s Journey of Il Picaro – Enrico Cerretti

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the fact that it doesn’t feel like work, because music is something I would do even if I wasn’t getting paid to do it. What is my idea of happiness? Knowing that I can provide all of my family’s need through the…

The Hero’s Journey of Debrydelys  Deeberdeyn

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Live a hundred lives in one life. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is having someone close to you who you truly love and who truly reciprocates, it is stroking an affectionate kitten, it is dancing to the music you like, it is…

The Hero’s Journey of Davide Greco

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to drive stories forward through colors . The most interesting aspect, however, is the preparation. That means understanding the vision of the director and director of photography, asking questions and thinking about colors and mood that will drive and tell the story….

The Hero’s Journey of Nijaz Gojak

What is the best thing that I love about my work? In 1993, I enrolled in High School of Fine Art in Sarajevo. That was the time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the existance of Bosnian people on these lands was questionable. After the war ended I studied at Academy of Fine Arts…

The Hero’s Journey of Jérôme Decourcelles

What is the best thing that I love about my work ? The thing that I love about my job is giving voice, creating for people and meeting them afterwards. What is my idea of happiness ? My idea of happiness is to have my family and friends in good health, that they fulfill their dreams and…

The Hero’s Journey of Vincent Lacroix

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I like that the gesture of my hand gives birth to beings or objects, real or fantastic, and gives them intensity and life. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is a temporary and unfortunately often brief state of our self. It crystallizes in…

The Hero’s Journey of Christopher Mack

What is the best thing that I love about my work? So many things. I coach actors, I write, I direct, I do voiceovers, and I love the variety of my work. Exploring the many patterns of possibilities each new job provides me.  Being surprised by the work, or even surprising myself when working.  Discovering…

The Hero’s Journey of Gaël Zaks

What is my idea of happiness? Feeling fully fulfilled with yourself, what you’re doing in this life, where you are and what people are with you. What is my greatest fear? Giving up without trying. Endless night run from Gaël Zaks on Vimeo. What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? That I’m…

The Hero’s Journey of Sotiris Vardakis

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the fact that the craftmanship in my works is so evident and of such a quality. At the same time it possesses a strong conceptual basis, that is resulting from historical research and formalistic composition.That makes my work unique, highly aesthetic and…

The Hero’s Journey of Serge Leterrier

The Hero’s Journey of Serge Leterrier Scénariste, auteur, directeur publication magazine, photographe, graphiste What is the best thing that I love about my work? Writing. Writing is for me a key that I have in me and that opens on other worlds, other universes… A true source of light where the imagination illuminates, with its…

The Hero’s Journey of Dhananjay V. Takalikar

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The experiments I do on my  own creation of art.What is my idea of happiness? The moment I finish the last touch of my particular creation which I am working on.What is my greatest fear? Red colour disturbs me so you will not see…

The Hero’s Journey of Andrea Schifano

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Certainly the freedom of expression, and the introspective experience. I find that artistic work is a meditation that walk with you throughout your life. What is my idea of happiness? i don’t know. I believe that happiness exist in relation to sadness, happiness cannot…

The Hero’s Journey of Daniele Cascone

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love it when I definitely finish an artwork. Just for a few days. All the rest is a frustrating and obsessive need to satisfy myself. What is my idea of happiness? I think it is being able to live in harmony with yourself, whatever…

The Hero’s Journey of Giovanni Bucci

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love that I get to work with so many different art forms and creative people. I have always been into all kinds of art, particularly music and visual arts, so being a director allows me to still have a finger in all of…

The Hero’s Journey of Happy Pareek

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I really enjoy my work and it gives me purpose. with my work I can create the 3d digital representation of any object or surface using 3d computer graphics. And I want to create models for gaming industry, and with the constant advances in…

The Hero’s Journey of Garry Yankson

  What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love being free. Being an entrepreneur allows you to work on the projects you want and when and where you want. This is really cool. Also, I am passionate about Hip Hop, so the more time I spend with artists or big fans…

The Hero’s Journey of Dominick Domingo

What is the thing that I love most about my work? As a Disney Feature Animation artist-turned-live action filmmaker and author, I identify as a ‘Storyteller,’ first and foremost. What I love about storytelling is its dual function as self-expression and contribution. It’s both self-serving (as catharsis) and selfless in that it impacts others. I love…

The Hero’s Journey of Filippo Saccà

What is the best thing that I love about my work? When I need to express what I feel deep inside, whether it is a sensation or an idea, words are always ineffective. Only painting gives me this possibility and this is mainly what I love about my work. What is my idea of happiness?…

The Hero’s Journey of Teo Paolicelli

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love about comics and cinema it’s that they connect people. When it’s done right and you’re lucky, it’s a lot like building a house. That house will be inhabited by all different people, it will help to create and maintain relationships. All…

The Hero’s Journey of Jeremy Silva

What is the best thing that I love about my work? – They have given me the voice I have always craved in the world What is my idea of happiness? – Meeting other artists & people through my work and that feeling of inspiration it gives me What is my greatest fear?-  Madonna no…

The Hero’s Journey of Alix Tucou

What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is Love and Freedom to think, move and act. What is my greatest fear? Being alone and not being able to be near the people I love and care about. What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? My constant feeling of survival. Which living persons…

The Hero’s Journey of Ciro Ayala

What is the best thing that I love about my work?The opportunity to express my vision about what I consider Reality to a broad audience.What is my idea of happiness?The pursuit of it by being persistent, courageous and self-taught against all odds.What is my greatest fear?I don’t have one.What is the trait that I most…

The Hero’s Journey of Tarek Saleh

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Definitely the people. It’s very hard to describe the privilege of working in a creative field like ours. You’re surrounded with the most creative people out there whose only limit is their own imagination, so expect to be surprised with something so gorgeous and…

The Hero’s Journey of Michael Sarian

What is the best thing that I love about my work? It’s always changing and in a constant flux. As time goes on, the more I’m encouraged to try new and different things, and that’s an exciting thing no matter what line of work you’re in. Musically, though, it’s a necessity, to keep the artist…

The Hero’s Journey of Ricardo Passos

What is the best thing that I love about my work?What I like most about my job is the fact that I don’t consider it a job. What I do is for pure pleasure and delight. Being an artist is a way of being; always attentive to the world around me, often in an almost…

The Hero’s Journey of Massimo Livadiotti

There is an english and italian version of the questionnaire.  What is the best thing that I love about my work? The freedom to manage space and time…. What is my idea of happiness? Sharing beauty with others. What is my greatest fear? To Fly. What is the trait that I most deplore in myself?…

The Hero’s Journey of Matteo Graniti

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love working on art projects that inspire the community. What is my idea of happiness? I have no idea of real happiness, our life is an ongoing search of happiness. We only know small periods of satisfaction (at the moment). What is my…

The Hero’s Journey of Antonio Lo Presti

What is the best thing that I love about my work? -The best thing about my passion is to travel with limitless imagination What is my idea of happiness? -So many things “are” happiness for me … my son, drawing, living in contact with nature, my bonsai … What is my greatest fear? -I don’t…

The Hero’s Journey of Hiroshi Mehata

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Since all my works are based on improvisation, It’s the most exciting moment to be able to make work that sometimes exceeds my intention. Everything is a collaborative effort with the accident. What is my idea of happiness? happiness is not which be given…

The Hero’s Journey of Ryan Brison

What Is my idea of happiness? My happiness is being able to live life free. Living fearless enjoying family, friends, and love ones and not being worried about time or finances. Truly being able to live and learn by making mistakes. What is the best thing that I love about my work? Giving birth to…

The Hero’s Journey of Karlyle Tomms

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love discovery. I find that, when I write, the characters tell me the story. Even though I have a basic idea of the story to begin with, I find myself discovering it, just as a reader would, when I write it.  What is…

The Hero’s Journey of Massimo Taccon

What is the best thing that I love about my work? This is not my work but it’s my LIFE … I love being able to express my interiority and my personality through my work. It makes me feel alive. What is my idea of happiness? Be free to do what I have in my…

The Hero’s Journey of Tebatso Mahlangu

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing I love about my work would have to be the process of arriving at ideas, eliminating and conceptualising ideas pushes one’s thinking and in turn, reveals a lot about one’s limitations and one’s potentials. I think I learned more about myself…

The Hero’s Journey of Rick Vintage

What is the best thing that I love about my work? It’s a great privilege to be able to create things people enjoy, to be able to work from any location in the world and being totally independent on every level. What is my idea of happiness? Taking my daughters out in my car and…

The Hero’s Journey of Federico Severino

  What is the best thing that I love about my work? I feel different every day when I enter my workroom. I am attracted to that place. When I work I don’t think of anything. This is the thing I love. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness is loving what you really do….

The Hero’s Journey of Giuseppe Calandrini

What is the best thing that I love about my work? To sit and start finding the right sounds for the right melody, creating a storytelling with music, filling the visuals. And also to craft sounds: it’s amazing the magic behind knobs and oscillators. What is my idea of happiness?To enjoy simple ordinary things. They…

The Hero’s Journey of Mauro Di Stefano

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I’m a storyteller, I love to leave a part of me in the fictional characters that I create, it can be one of my fear or a character trait. It’s the most satisfying thing. What is my idea of happiness? A sunny afternoon in…

The Hero’s Journey of Pablo Scrigna

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing is when i get into that creative flow, there is nothing like it. It is like i am in “the zone” and hours go by without noticing it. What is my idea of happiness? I have had a few, i think…

The Hero’s Journey of Marcos Parra González

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my job is to be able to create whatever I want that is inside my head, to be able to think of something beautiful and capture it in a photograph. Think about the protagonist of my story, the place where…

The Hero’s Journey of Martijn Frank Dirks

What do I love most about my work?  The unpredictability and lack of clarity. I have no idea whatsoever where my creative work will take me in the coming years. My telephone is a kind of roulette table. It receives a call from a person I may or may not know, asking for my help….

The Hero’s Journey of Menno van Willigenburg

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I really love to create beautiful things out of scrappy materials according to my own definition of beauty. An important motto to me is… without ugliness there is no beauty. I love to feel, see, design and create the beauty without neglecting the ugliness    …

The Hero’s Journey of Alessandro Travaini

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing of my work is be in contact with artist and be available to express myself in my best wayWhat is my idea of happiness? My idea of happiness is when you found your balance and accept completely yourselfWhat is my greatest…

The Hero’s Journey of David Paul Kay

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The priceless sensation of freedom, that feeling when you can imagine anything you can create and then create anything you can imagine. The entire process of it from when the idea hits my brain cells to the final stage when I see the piece…

The Hero’s Journey of Adedayo Erivic

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The sense of fulfillment that comes with me doing what I love doing best, that’s what I love most about my work. The entire creative brainstorming is also fun.What is my idea of happiness? Doing the positive things you love to do, living within…

The Hero’s Journey of Gabriele Salvaterra

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The things that I love the most about my work are probably meeting people and talking with them, seeing new things or seeing the same things from different perspectives, being inspired and surprised by something I don’t know yet.What is my idea of happiness?…

The Hero’s Journey of Simone Petrelli

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The possibility of putting the best of me in the keys of a computer (I know that “on the tip of a pen” sounded better, but let’s be modern…). You know, there are a lot of people out there who don’t know what to…

The Hero’s Journey of Russell D Pulford

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Painting allows me to lose myself, I guess it might be a paradox as in reality it also allows me to find myself. Meditating whilst mixing paint colours for instance, how good is that? What is my idea of happiness? Happiness for me depends…

The Hero’s Journey of Carlo Caldara

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The possibility to make every day , a new journey in my art studio. What is my idea of happiness? Happiness comes when you least expect It. It’s like a lightning that cross the darkest memories and illuminate the present. What is my greatest…

The Hero’s Journey of Nate Ejobson

The best part about being a comic book artist and in Africa is that I get to not only create world’s, but I get to create them in a way the world has never seen. Africa is beautiful and it is so fulfilling creating artwork that continues to show this beauty on a daily basis….

The Hero’s Journey of Garcia de Marina

What is the best thing that I love about my work?  I think there are two things. When I think a new idea. It is a very special moment when it suddenly appears in the mind. And also when the public connects with my work in an exhibition and they reflect around the history.  What…

The Hero’s Journey of Massimo Rosi

  What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love every aspect of my work, I love it as I can love a part of my body that is indispensable for everything else to work. The aspect I prefer is the phase where ideas sublimate and come to life on paper,…

The Hero’s Journey of Niccolò Testi

What is the best thing that I love about my work? You always have to move very fast and I think it’s great. You must get new things to know, to read, to watch: it’s a neverending learning process. Plus, I can meet lots of interesting people, share ideas, create worlds together. What is my…

The Hero’s Journey of Samuel Chevillard

What is the thing that I love best about my work? I love everything from reading the script to filming through to promotion and presenting the film at festivals. Turning a text or an idea into image and sound is the most beautiful achievement in my eyes. Fortunately, this is the job of a producer…

The Hero’s Journey of Leo Ragno

What is the best thing I love about my job? The possibility of deepening and investigating what surrounds me in absolute freedom. What is my idea of ​​happiness? Power to have the opportunity to spend my time doing what I want and most I like. What is my greatest fear? Lose this possibility. What is…

The Hero’s Journey of Salvatore Alessi

Photo credit:  Salvatore Pellegrino What is the best thing I love about my job? The ability to create and invent worlds What is my idea of happiness? The memory of a perfume. Its flavor and color generates my happiness and makes me love life. What is my biggest fear? That painting, poetry and storytelling still…

The Hero’s Journey of Ettore Pinelli

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The smell of linseed oil on my hands after painting. What is my idea of happiness? I’m still trying to figure out which one it is. What is my greatest fear? To lose myself moving by car at night. What is the trait that…

The Hero’s Journey of Yuri Buzzi

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love the fact that I am doing a variety of work, that gives me the freedom of expressing creativity in many ways and that change is always possible. What is my idea of happiness? Finding a good balance between the multiple personalities inside,…

The Hero’s Journey of Dante Tomaselli

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Being in control of my output…whether it be a movie or an album. Desecration, Horror, Satan’s Playground, Torture Chamber, Scream in the Dark, The Doll, Nightmare, Witches, Out-of-Body Experience…For each release, I feel like something is clawing at my insides, begging to be unleashed….

The Hero’s Journey of Antonino Gaeta

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love about my job is the inner silence, the possibility while I paint limestone the thresholds of another space-time dimension What is my idea of happiness? My Idea of ​​Happiness and being able to continue to be Free inside my canvases, without…

The Hero’s Journey of Ewen Gur

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love being free and decide what I want to do, to express myself freely. I’m in control! What is my idea of happiness? Having a family and being free to do what I want. What is my greatest fear? Not having enough resource…

The Hero’s Journey of Ricardo Ribeiro

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Each project is a new opportunity to create a singular, never seen, one of a kind piece. It always starts with a blank timeline and you have this incredible chance to tell a story in the most amazing, creative, interesting and ground breaking way you…

The Hero’s Journey of René Georges

What is the best thing that I love about my work? To get always surprises I did’nt expect at all while I am working on it. What is my idea of happiness? To find myself in peace and satisfied with what I do. What is my greatest fear? Not to be able to think and…

The Hero’s Journey of Carlos Walker

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The beat thing I love about my work is how it bring out emotion in people. I also, love the fact that it sparks conversation that people are afraid to talk about. But because of the visual I feel it allows people to really…

The Hero’s Journey of Hernán Cabrera

What is the best thing that I love about my work? They are a couple of things. On the one hand, the possibility of working with wonderful artists. On the other hand, being able to be part of the creation of artistic works that, hopefully, will be enjoyed by people. Also the possibility of having…

The Hero’s Journey of Mosam

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The sync of my hands action,combinated with my inspiration. I always smile when i feel that. What is my idea of happiness? Trying to paint the world one day i one body of peace. This idea wakes me up everyday,along with my first coffee….

The Hero’s Journey of Mario Zuccarello

What is the best thing that I love about my work? My work allows me to fully express my imagination, but only if I create images on my own, unfortunately the rules of the market impose on the creatives parameters that I often find unacceptable. What is my idea of happiness? Live fully. What is…

The Hero’s Journey of Stefano Zarba

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Creativity is what I like most about my work. I love realizing at an artistic level, what I have in mind abd being able to create always different projects, alone or in team. What is my idea of happiness? My idea of happiness is…

The Hero’s Journey of Stefano Pugliese

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I work with startups, the best thing about my work is that you never get bored because everyday you face new issues to deal with. The adrenaline that this “world” gives you keeps me constantly excited. What is my idea of happiness? To make…

The Hero’s Journey of Edward Slaviero

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my work is how it both challenges me as well as the viewers to a new perception on plastic – the material that I mostly work with; how I feel the constant need to challenge both mine and other’s view…

The Hero’s Journey of Paolo Iarossi

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Surely the thing that I love most is taking care of the development of my ideas.the possibility of taking care of an idea and carrying it on paper has always fascinated me, because it gives me the opportunity to explore the worlds that I imagine…

The Hero’s Journey of Manuel Camia

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What i love about my job as filmmaker is that i get the chance to dive into many different stories and issues. I can sit back and let curiosity drive me. Curiosity is indeed my guide both in my personal and professional life. What…

The Hero’s Journey of Hash Moody

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing about my work is the privilege to do it from where I want, when I want & how I want, I mean I can manage & tweak almost every aspect of my business the way I want. Despite of all the work stress,…

The Hero’s Journey of Hiroki Ohsawa

Hiroki Ohsawa is an international award-winning film director originally from Tokyo, Japan. What is the best thing that I love about my work? As a film director, I can create something new which has never existed in human history and share it with people all around the world forever. What is my idea of perfect…

The Hero’s Journey of Vlad Kovalev

What is the best thing that I love about my work? It is opportunity to give life to design. This is a kind of stream of emotions that can be transmitted through animation or image. And, of course, the wide variety of design areas, I can apply my skills into. What is my idea of…

The Hero’s Journey of Mario Penco

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The best thing of my work that I love, is creativity and multidisciplinarity. Every time, I have new different challenges or Problems to solve. What is my idea of perfect happiness? My idea of perfect happiness is doing what you love and you will…

The Hero’s Journey of Denys Ivanenko

Hello, my name is Denis and I am a 3D Artist.  What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to see the models that I have made in video-games. I like to play War Thunder and it is an amazing feeling that I am participating in its development. In general,…

The Hero’s Journey of Benjamin Nuebel

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Cosmogony, or worldbuilding, when I’m creating new identities and see them come alive. What is my idea of perfect happiness? The concept of ›perfect happiness‹ is repulsive to me; static and dead. My moments of bliss usually occur in early morning or late evening –…

The Hero’s Journey of Angel Muro

Hello, my name is Angel and I’m an Illustrator and Concept Artist! What is the best thing that I love about my work? How limitless it feels, the perks of being an Illustrator is that you’re able to jump into different types of jobs without ever feeling as if you’re trapped in a career. What…