Freelance
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- luckyorphan0
Best practice is to clear up that kind of relationship with the agency before agreeing to employment.
If that's impossible, ensure that whatever work is done in freelance does not impact the day job. Make sure that if you're designing something for Coke during the day, you're not moonlighting for Pepsi, in other words.
One related issue I've heard, however, is when people show up to the day job dead tired because they've been pulling late hours on freelance. I've heard producers and mgmt. vent that they are often pissed about this because their off-hours work lessens the quality of their day job, and in one case I've seen, that's led to a contract not being renewed.
That being said, if you do web and print during the day and motion graphics at night, the studio shouldn't be too bothered by it. All in all, full disclosure, and, like waterhouse said, discretion is optimal.
But never...ever contact an agency client to offer your services. Doesn't matter if the agency hasn't had a relationship with the client in over a decade. It's just bad policy.
Hope that helps.
- +1000000 - use discretion and avoid a conflict of interestflashbender
- this makes no sense, first you say coming tired to your day job could be a problem, and then "if you do Mograph at night is ok"?Meeklo
- ok...
something tells me you never experienced a mograph project :)Meeklo