This evening, Bonfire Studios will have a small party celebrating the end of our first year as a company and the beginning of our second.  In honor of that sort-of startling milestone, I wanted to take a minute to look back at the past twelve months and maybe share a couple of things I’ve picked up along the way.

1.  LIFT WITH YOUR LEGS

Despite our collective experience and our collection of stuff, all of us here at Bonfire are employed by what is still for all intents and purposes a startup company.  That means everyone pitches in and everyone wears a lot of hats.  I’ve personally had the chance to be a video editor, a studio tech, a proof-reader of job listings, a voice actor, and part of our first holiday party’s (hopefully intentional) entertainment in addition to doing all the composing and sound design tasks that are actually a part of my job description.  I think that’s a pretty typical experience here:  you do what needs to be done.  And, back in the spring of 2009, what needed to be done was a really big move.