Even as freelancers and solo designers, I still believe that no man is an island and we can achieve far greater things when we work together than alone.

It’s also interesting how bad management can have such a drastic effect on the work environment. Good leadership is crucial and often very hard to find. I hear stories like your cinema management more often than I should.

Also with the best – working on our short film The Man Who Knew Nothing, summer of 2008. Myself and my two colleagues just love making films, so this was our chance to be inspired by each other and to develop our passion together. As I worked on VFX shots for the film, they challenged me with big ideas, and as I moved towards learning and accomplishing those ideas, the collective excitement became infectious, and it helped us all to keep pushing ourselves to do our best work. We never let each other slow down, and the result was an incredible project that stretched us all to our limits, and produced a fun project that we’re all proud of.

Worst? When I worked at the cinema years ago. I liked the gig, but it was a corrosive environment. A young, naive management staff that didn’t care about its staff caused nothing but bickering and resentment. The leadership ruined that job for me.