Cam Baity on Weaving Stories in Multiple Medium

Cam Baity is an Emmy-winning writer who has worked as an animator, animation director, and novelist. He has been a writer at Disney Television Animation, Warner Bros. Animation, Nickelodeon Animation, Hasbro, DreamWorks Animation, and more! Recently he made the leap from writing for the screen into video game writing, first at OnceLost Games working on "Wayward Realms" and now as a Senior Writer at System Era Softworks.

In this episode, we dig into, amongst other things:

• Cam's career journey, and what he has learned along the way,
• What it was like working on Guillermo del Toro's Pinnochio,
• Lessons learned from working on television and movies that are applicable to video game writing,
• Breaking into the video game industry and dealing with gatekeepers,
• The importance of putting yourself out there and meeting people in the industry,
• Showing up, doing good work, and not being a turd,
• His experience writing a novel trilogy with a long-time writing partner,
• And then we go really deep into the importance of stories and the place story creators have in today's world.

Give it a listen!

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-> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cam-baity/

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