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Andrew Rea

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“Have otherwise. And seeing that on a much larger scale, basically just a much wider version of what we're doing right now. I mean, I thought this was my dream job, but that's now within the very distant realm of possibility. And that is an intoxicating and really exciting prospect.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I envision us as a multimedia brand that is still doing what we're doing right now, which is creating informative, entertaining, uplifting, positive, evergreen high utility content on a much larger scale that is creator first and human first. I want it to be one of these companies that pioneers and taken care of its employees and fairly and transparently compensating its creators. creating lines of products that are affordable for people who are setting up their kitchens. I see a slate of content that we can create for streaming platforms and television networks that is positive and uplifting like Great British Baking Show, something that feels like a warm hug when you're watching it, but also maybe teaches you something or encourages you to try something you might”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I always want to, you know, the name of the brand is Bavish, and I always want to be me and Sawyer at the center of the thing that we've built here. I still want to be the face of it. I still enjoy being on camera and making my show. Hell, after we're done with this interview, I'm going to go and edit together tomorrow's episode. I have to do the voiceover for it tonight because it's got to go out tomorrow. But I'm excited to do it because it's fun.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have a little voice in my head. I think a lot of us do that tells me whenever I'm not working or whenever I'm doing anything really, that I'm either, you know, you should be working or you're not working hard enough or you're not doing good enough And I know that sounds. Universal because it is. I feel like most of us have that nagging voice in our head that's just like you aren't enough. It's taken a long time to identify that voice as not me. It's never had my health or my well-being in mind And the day I realized that voice hates me was the day that I kind of spun out there and decided to take a month off because I was just working myself into a grave. So recognizing that voice as the malevolent... Presence that it is was very important moment for me this year”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And now, conversely, when I'm too excited and I'm too worked up and anxious and it starts to blind me to how poorly I'm taking care of myself.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The moment when I screamed Eureka at the top of my lungs and fell onto my bed, I had a really sobering moment where I was like, I am not myself right now. I am not Andy. I am not Andrew. I'm neither of those people. I am so obsessed with this company and hitting these deadlines and putting out two episodes a week. And I started to feel joy and extra energy and not need sleep and borderline mania from it. And luckily, my friends, had a friendship intervention, you know, and just be like, hey, you're going to burn out here. You need to, you know, take care of yourself. In that time, I learned a lot about, I've always been an adamant meditator, but I learned a great deal about just how to Cope with my anxiety and my sometimes crippling depression when it starts to show its head.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I took a break a couple months ago. I took a month off back in April of this year. I disappeared from the channel. We put out a little notice. And it was because I had had just a complete breakdown.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And personally, I have depression ADHD, general anxiety disorder. And I don't want those to be shameful things. Those are part of my personality. They're part of my brain chemistry. And in terms of being a public figure and being a success with them, I honestly know very few people who are public figures who don't have problems like this. It's part of being an entertainer sometimes.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not a superficial question to ask at all. I'm very grateful for you asking it because I want to be as loud a voice I can in the conversation about mental health. Everything that they say about it being underreported, under discussed, undertreated is absolutely true. I have access to the best treatment that I could possibly get now. It's sometimes still not enough because if you have chemical imbalances in your brain, It's akin to Wanting to run a marathon but being mad at yourself for having a broken leg.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Never said smash that like button squad. And luckily, what that's built us is a very robust audience who only subscribes because they wanted to subscribe. And I think that's why we have such high viewership retention. Like we have a really loyal core of those subscribers who will watch our videos no matter what we put out. And so we try to meet them with quality content that's also kind and uplifting.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. I mean, that's a way you can do it. But you might also notice that I've never, ever said like and subscribe, which is a very common YouTube bird trope to say, to finish, begin and finish a video with, hey guys, like and subscribe. And I've never said that.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really appreciate that, first of all. That's an extraordinarily kind thing to say. And I think that my viewers share a genuine connection with me when I meet them on the street. They always say, like, can we grab a beer? Like, I feel like we'd befriends or something. I hear that a lot. And I believe it because the things that we do are kind. We want to make uplifting, encouraging contents. We make it encouraging by showing how much of a doofus I am and how hard it is for me to cook. We make sure not to, you know, do it at the expense of anybody else by criticizing anybody or trying to generate controversy with anybody because those are, like you said, very, very common tactics with YouTubers.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. Like I was saying before, we had an idea of how we could fairly compensate our employees and our talent. And we wanted to try it out. And, you know, I make it a habit not to speak ill of my contemporaries. But we saw a free agent, a creative who needed a new home and somebody who we could potentially really openly, transparently compensate. But there was, yeah, there was sort of a corporate reckoning happening at that time. There was like a half dozen companies that went through major reckonings in their corporate leadership. We were very grateful to be as small and lean as we are because we're just a bunch of friends who haven't done awful things to each other behind closed doors. So that's a nice position to be in.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It really depends on the advertiser. Some advertisers only see that subscriber number and just see that as the potential number of eyeballs that their product is going to get in front of. And other advertisers are a little more, you know, they delve deeper into the numbers. They want to see how our videos have been performing recently. They want to see how they're projected to perform. So we work with advertisers in any way we can to get the data they need.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's not only been a way to generously compensate our talent, but I think to fairly compensate them. So we have a new system now where we have advertisers coming in for talents that aren't me on the channel. And it's a new way that we get to fairly pay people for their time on camera.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. I'm really thrilled and humbled with how well the company has done financially because, yeah, we're a pretty lean organization. As of right now, we're six employees strong, myself included. And our expenses are extremely low and our revenues are extremely high because they're based off of just the sheer number of viewers that we've been able to generate. And we're actually very proud of our compensation model that we've built with our creators because now on the channel there's more than just me. There's Kendall. There's Alvin, there's Rick. We have a number of different shows. We want to make more with more personalities. And the way that we've been compensating our talent is via percentage, which I'm not familiar with any media brand doing that where our talent and our creators are paid commensurately with what ads are placed on their videos and how well their videos do.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, like most YouTubers I know, there can be a hundred nice comments and one mean one and all you see is the mean one. So I listened very carefully whenever I received criticism because it's all I saw because I have a complex. But I knew I was going to be met with incredulity from people who really, really know what they're doing. So that's why I made it as patently obvious as I possibly could that I was an amateur. And that meant showing my mistakes. That meant having a laugh if I spilled something or burnt something. That meant being very, very honest with the audience. And I think that's something that people resonated with, which is why they kept watching me even if I wasn't making food from their favorite movie.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I mean, sometimes just for the sake of nostalgia, I still do that. The show is a sort of template that I can build very easily and very quickly. And then as I do the voiceover and as I bring episode-specific personality to it, I can make it into something unique. So it was something that I handled myself for a very, very long time when we brought on Maiden Network, they would edit together episodes of basics with Davish, which we launched in 2017. And yeah, it's just a general cookery show, which I was very, very nervous to launch because before that I was resting on this sort of pop culture crush and thinking, you know, nobody's going to want to watch me if there isn't Marvel movie attached to it. But turned out people enjoyed it.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So integrations are basically product placements in videos on YouTube. So we do a 15 to 30 second add read at the top of the video and a 45 second ad read on the tail. Top and tail is tail as old as time and how YouTubers bring home the bacon. And the first partner that we worked with who we still work with today is Squarespace. They did a three-episode deal with us. And that was enough for me to get champagne for me and Square. I was like, look at us. We did this. And they brought in our first deal, which was our first kind of cash windfall.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, initially it wasn't, and probably within a year and a half that changed because our CPMs started rising cost per millis.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Once again, I leaned on Reddit. Reddit is a really cool community because they found me, you know, they're the ones who gave me a stage. And they take a certain amount of pride in that. So every time I put out a video, everybody on Reddit would upvote it to the top of the video's subreddit, which would get a huge amount of traffic and just eyeballs on. And the algorithm, the YouTube algorithm, when you suddenly and massively just get an influx of views from an outside source, it's going to prioritize you in the algorithm. So my videos would end up trending after that. Like it was a surprise when they didn't trend.”
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“Yet it's very rare that small business owners get to start their business making more money than they were making at their day job, but I sure do appreciate it because it was a nice safety net to have.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that was the first thing that really enabled me to step away. Thank you for reminding me because that came in before the YouTube dollars. And I was lucky enough to have a robust set of fans that were kind enough to contribute to what I was doing and enable me to leave my job. And that's what it was June of 2017 that I gave 70 days notice to my employer because their dear friends still are and decided that I was going to do this gig full time.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So he was the first one to see that, and he was also the first one to be able to help me monetize it by helping me sign with a management company out in Nashville. So that was probably, I think that was about four months after the Moistmaker video is when we started monetizing.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, that's where Sawyer comes into the picture. My oldest and dearest friend, his name is Sawyer Jacobs. We met in ninth grade, and he is currently my partner. He, before anybody else, saw the marketability and brand recognition potential in this product, which he was characterizing what I was doing that way. And I was like, dude, I'm just messing around after work. You know, this is just a YouTube show. Like, seriously? And he was like, because he worked at Kande Nast at the time. And he was seeing these legacy brands doing these ad deals. And he was getting a better and better understanding of how the advertising industry works and how important it is to have name recognition in a brand and how much that's worth. And he very early on wanted to work with me on it. He was the first one to sort of come in with me as my attorney initially.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it was a little bit of a snob. I'm sure I didn't want to become a content creator because in my mind, that was, you know, handicams and stunt videos and pranks. And I was like, you know, that's just not for me. And it just turned out to be utter creative freedom. That's what YouTube offered. So as I leaned into it and discovered that I could start making money doing it, yeah, became my dream job real fast.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Definitely not. This was definitely still an after school activity. And even when it blew up, initially, I was very resistant to become a YouTuber.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then you're looking at probably 10 hours of post-production. Then you got color grading, some graphics, sound mixing. The voiceover is far and away the hardest part because I don't write it beforehand. I just sort of do it. And not in one shot. I mess up a billion times, but I don't write it. I just kind of stream of consciousness it. And that becomes very creatively draining. And if we're talking about something with exotic ingredients and or exotic preparation that takes days or huge amounts of effort, we're talking about the better part of a weekend spent shooting and then all my evenings after work spent editing to keep making it at this period.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I'd say at the very least an episode from front to back, if it's super simple and easy, will take about 20 hours. So you're looking at like maybe four hours of production if it's some kind of simple.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The night before Sandwich Day, we want to prep our 20 pound bird by butterflying it. This means cutting out the spine and flattening, which is a long arduous process if you don't have the right scissor. So go out and get some poultry shears because this is really super hard unless you have the right tools.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't do anything, but I can trace, I can tell you the sort of path that it took, which was, you know, I was repeatedly submitting my videos to Reddit, but somebody posted this episode, the Moistmaker episode, on the video subreddit. And Reddit videos, at least at the time, and still to this day, can be of sort of frontline for what's going to go viral on the internet. That's often where I see it first. It climbed up to, I think, like the fourth position, which at the time I had never gotten that high before. And it received.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I have always enjoyed food and movies and television. And what I really love about it is that it really combines my mother's love of food with my father's love of imaging. It's her heart and his eye. And I really, really appreciate the thematic symbolism”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, because I didn't monetize any videos for a year. So I would continue to make this show as a hobby for a year after its inception.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oliver Babish shows up in eight total episodes of the NBC Seminal Drama The West Wing. And it is a, I like making online usernames named after obscure characters from my favorite shows. And I made the video specifically for Reddit, for the food subreddit because I had been posting there. I had been enjoying getting a little bit of notoriety, posting my dinner and having fun, pithy conversations with strangers and getting to the top of the subreddit. And I was like, huh, a video is like a moving picture. I could make that and post it on Reddit. And I did. And that's why in the first episode, you'll hear me say, hey, what's up, Reddit food? Because that's who it was intended for.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wasn't trying to remain anonymous, I think, later in my career that anonymity helped me a little fun mystery for people to finally unveil my face at a million subscribers. But what I wanted to do was put the focus first and foremost on the food. That's why we wear a black apron. And so the food pops so you can see the steam coming off of it. And I shot things at a very, very shallow depth of field, not only because it looks pretty and because I'm a complete sucker for any shallow depth of field. It also really narrows your focus in the frame on what you're looking at. So if the food is in focus and everything else is blurry, you got not only is it front and center, it's symmetrical. And any personality that I'm bringing to it is ancillary and incidental. It's more about the food.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Ron makes a beef burger, rolls him up plain on a bun, and he's just like, here, this will be better. And he's right. And I tend to agree as an omnivore. I think beef does taste better than turkey, especially in a fatty textured forward thing like a burger. So he was absolutely right.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Asian fusion burger made with something turkey cheese crisp crisp, papaya chutney, black truffley, and microgreens gluten-free brios bun.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. So I can tell you the whole scene. I could recite it by heart. Yes. The idea is Chris wants to even make a turkey burger that tastes better than beef burger.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Telegio cheese crisp, how would that work? Would that work together? And turns out it's okay. But that's really where the idea came from.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I was messing around in my kitchen. And I was like, you know, I love food. I love cooking. Maybe I should do some food photography or something like that. I was like, I can put my interests together. That's a good idea. And so I was just trying to get a good angle on some food in my kitchen. It was a very prohibitive kitchen to shoot still or video in. So I was just trying to find like any viable angle where it didn't look unnatural, where it didn't look weird or fake. And I tried to make the light look like natural daylight flowing through a window. And I just tried to get it right. And as I was fiddling with that, I was watching Parks and Rec for, you know, probably the fifth or sixth time and watched a scene that I had seen a dozen times because it's from a great episode where there was a burger cook-off and they were discussing some pretty exotic ingredients that I was like, I wonder that would actually taste like papaya chutney, black truffle.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and after this massive creative defeat, my therapist recommended that I find a new creative endeavor, something that gets me excited, something that makes me want to work on it instead of dread working on it as my entire creative career had become. So I bought a camera and a light and a microphone and I wanted to shore up my documentary production ability and just do more side gigs to make some money, see if I could go freelance, whatever.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This likewise precipitated that divorce because basically my pulling myself out of bed was the decision to go seek therapy and seeking therapy put me on anidepressants. And antidepressants gave me a little bit more bandwidth to build and create things.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it was really that documentary film that I had chosen to work on. We worked on it for a year and a half, and it never really went anywhere. And it was one of the most defeating and depressing creative endeavors of my life. It made me think I don't have the ability to tell a story. I don't have a unique voice. I don't have a unique perspective. And I'm not going to make it in this industry. So that's what landed me in bed, not wanting to get out for about two weeks. And yeah, put me in a pretty deep depression.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And me and the director would crank until one, two in the morning, sometimes all night And so to answer your question, yeah, I was really trying to get my foot in the door as a creator of any kind. This before creator was a job title in this industry and try to get noticed by telling a story.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was something I tried to develop a long time ago, me and Sawyer, who's my business partner today, and our friend Rashid from high school, we all tried to make a documentary our freshman year of college down in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We went down there to gut houses and we brought a camera with us and tried to whip together a post-Katrina documentary. And it didn't come out great, but it was an early indicator of our interest to tell compelling stories like that. So yeah, I thought that documentary was a means to get my foot in the door because it was low production cost and it was mostly just like we said, attention detail and ability to tell a story. And it eventually culminated in doing what I so often do, which is bite off way more than I can chew. And I agreed to edit a feature documentary about the prison system, and I was going to do it in my off hours. So I did it after work. So my work ended at 7 p.m.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, and they afforded me the opportunity to do some pretty incredible things. I got to go to Malawi. I got to go to Haiti and document some really beautiful, incredible, and difficult work. So that was also really great training because, you know, documentary production, both shooting and editing, you're the director because you have to piece together this story from whatever actually happened and you managed to capture.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So let's see, back in like 2012, I think, is when I started doing documentary production freelance. So I would do fundraising films for organizations like The Opus Project, Team Lyft, and Harlem Academy.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. It gave me an attention to detail, that's for sure, because I would end up doing client sessions where they'd be looking over my shoulder and we would be going through it frame by frame and they'd be looking for any little bit of green screen or a little visible wire. And I'd have seven people sometimes standing behind me just pouring over every single image. So yeah, it definitely was great training for attention to detail and making sure things are clean and crisp.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah, I remember we did a commercial for Swifer once where it was like breakup with your mop was the campaign and the mop was drinking through a straw for some reason. And they'd shot those practically like they did puppetry. So this mop was being held up by a Medusa head of fishing line and wires and strings to control it. So every tendril of the mop was shaking and had to be isolated and painted out frame by frame. This was one of my earliest projects at my new gig and that would be what my career was like. It was just these very, very slow weird minutiae. Like one time I had to change the direction a woman's eyes were looking.”
2022-12-01 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ICYMI... HIBT Lab! Babish Culinary Universe: Andrew Rea · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Visual effects for commercials, television commercials. This little company of four people called SwitchFX. I started as an assistant and I worked my way up to a senior flame artist, which is not hard to do in a company of four people, but still it was an amazing job with amazing people, but it wasn't scratching my itch creatively because my job was to get rid of Nike logos off of like actors' shirts and stuff in commercials or like lightening up the bags under their eyes or getting rid of flyaway hairs or just all the things you're never supposed to notice.”
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