Sayonara Smashcut Media

If you happen to have chanced upon the Smashcut Media website recently, you’ll have been witness to this parting message:

Sayonara Smashcut

For those of you not accustomed to squinting, the gist is that I’m shutting up shop on Smashcut Media.

Which wasn’t something I planned on doing. The last year has been awesome, and I’d reached the stage where I was turning away jobs on a pretty much daily basis. Would-be pro-screencasters take note - this is a huge underdeveloped niche, and less screencasters with chops than there are jobs to keep them busy year round.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with some incredible, passionate start-ups from all over the world, and will probably put together some kind of retrospective at some point. And been able to do what I love best (motion design, editing into the small hours, working from home over countless cups of hi-octane coffee) day in, day out.

So why the hell am I soaping up the windows?

In short, I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse by an incredible company I have huge amounts of respect and time for, and will be announcing the details of that sometime very soon.

You’ll be seeing a lot more of me over there, and I’m also planning (in choice morcels of downtime) to post here, and my pending micro-animation video blog, along with the iPhone powered Tumblelog type thing I’ve set up here.