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Five Questions from Quarantine: Julien Simshauser
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Simshauser, director/founder at Builders Club, tells us how he longs to be quarantined with his colleagues and how Mario Kart drives him through the lockdown.
What's your self-isolation set-up at the moment?
Like the rest of our team, I took my 3D animation workstation home and everything looks as usual... except that I'm sitting in the kitchen.
Accordingly, I'm cooking a lot more and geeking out about which home delivery service is the best to go with.
It's lockdown; aside from your family, which four people, past or present, would you most like to be quarantined with?
Well - ideally the whole rest of my team @ Builders Club.
It's like a family - more or less.
I miss the birthdays and lunches and pub sessions. All that group spirit is what made us start this thing in the first place.
Being part of a group of like-minded creators - having fun together.
We need entertainment, what's your favourite short film?
There's no real favourite but that one's fun: Kung Fury.
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You've completed Netflix. And Amazon Prime. And Disney+. It's on the hard stuff; board games. What do you pick and why?
Well I'd pick games on my Nintendo Switch.
I'm quarantined with my girlfriend and Luigi's Mansion co-op is the winner for us.
Mario Kart is obviously always good too.
We got this large television when the quarantine started. Still making sure to go outside for a run every day though ;)
On a serious note, how do you think this situation will impact you individually, and the industry as a whole?
Companies that were already not doing well before this crisis might struggle staying alive - some larger ad agencies and post production production companies with large overhead and no real innovation happening.
Generally - winners are small boutique shops - design, creative consultancy and motion design studios - that can run business as usual from home - basically, companies like us, ha.
But on another note - things will get back to normal at some point. Or not. Nobody really knows, do they?
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