{"id":104,"date":"2026-07-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/a-studio-of-one\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:59:48","slug":"a-studio-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/a-studio-of-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A studio of one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People ask when I will hire. The honest answer is: not yet, and maybe never. A studio of one means the idea in the first call is the idea in the final render. Nothing gets lost between people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Planning a quarter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I take two large jobs and two small ones each quarter. A large job is a title sequence or a launch film. A small job is a loop pack or a set of stills. Friday afternoons stay free for personal work, which is where most of the large jobs come from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/spaces-desert-arch-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A white arch and pale stones on a path through red and orange flowers.\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/spaces-desert-arch-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/spaces-desert-arch-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/spaces-desert-arch-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/spaces-desert-arch-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/spaces-desert-arch-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/spaces-desert-arch-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/spaces-desert-arch-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Friday set test from 2019. It later became the first room of Quiet Rooms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The people I call<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For sound, Iris Mallow. For a second pair of hands on a big render, a freelancer I trust. For contracts, a lawyer who reads them slower than I do. That is the whole studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Small is not a stage you grow out of. It is a choice you keep making.<\/p>\n<cite>Noa Calder<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I stayed one person, how I plan a quarter, and the three people I call when a job is too big for one desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kurato_page_runtime":0,"kurato_hide_header":false,"kurato_hide_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[52,51],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studio","tag-planning","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/motion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}