Artist Interview: Mandel Lum

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Today we have an interview with a Fused pack creator: Mandel Lum. Check out some of his awesome work below and get his packs in the Fused marketplace. So how did you get started making packs for Fused? I actually found Easy Tiger Apps (which at the time, I thought was the coolest name for an app company) on a site for freelance work. They were looking for an animator and my head started swimming with ideas that would be amazing. So after chatting with them, I researched Easy Tiger's users and the stuff they were making and came up with this long list of ideas that would be awesome and really fun for users to remix. The rest is history! What drew your attention toward Fused? What really drew me to Fused was just how easy it was to make something that I thought could only be done on a PC. These days I really dig how powerful a good photo editor can be. Especially because the camera on my smartphone doesn't take great pictures, I really like how programs like Instagram and Fused lets me dial in the settings to make really creative images every time. Do you have a background in design/photography/art? Actually, I studied economics. Demand and supply curves, statistics and accounting -- stuff you need to know if you want an internship in finance. But I could never stop working on video projects and short films -- finance just wasn't for me. I started making cheesy videos in high school for fun. I had a mentor that taught me a lot about filmmaking back then. During college, I edited all my friends' short films and made a couple of my own. After college, I bought a film camera and taught myself how to compose shots. I took one introductory class on After Effects and just started making that my thing for the next 6 years, working at design firms, TV shows, and mobile apps. It's been fun, having a non-traditional design background and discovering my own path. It definitely feels less like a "background" and more like an adventure. TL;DR You don't have to have a background in art to make amazing artwork. Enjoying these interviews? Do you want to be featured here or on our Instagram? Easy! Use any of our apps to post an edit, tag @easytigerapps, and use #easytigerapps. We search for new features every week. Good luck! Try all our apps for free!

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