 Holi guaka tamoli! If you're wondering what that means, that makes two of us. Anyways, Nan always said I was a bit of a houtitu. That's why I'm on your computer screen. And if you're a bit of a houtitu like me, use your passion as your drive to find the right job for you. It just made me famous. Hey Bestie. Yeah? I'm thinking. I'm not. I never do. Well you should be. About what? A career after school. Okay, so let's do it. Okay. Kia ora boy. Kia ora. What's your guys name? Oh bro, my name's Vinnie Egan. I'm Madison Kikorangi. Where do you guys work? We work at this creative place called Maui Studios in the building known as the Promised Land and we're part of the Digital Natives. What exactly do you guys do here? We like those kind of creative, entrepreneurial type dudes. If you were to label us, we'd probably be digital houtitu. We just like came up from Dunedin, graduated in Dunedin and we found ourselves in this epic creative environment that's thriving, full of CEOs and Māori people who are just striving to achieve the best that they can be. What inspired you guys to get into this sort of industry into Maui Studios? I suppose like a lot of it is the fact that we are houtitu. So we're like those cats that grew up in the high school ways getting in trouble for drawing on our books and stuff like that and that kind of translated after we finished our degrees and when it started like internships and things like that. That same kind of nature just kept propping up like instead of doing the other work we'll be working on websites or designing characters or whatever. So yeah we just kind of rolled with that whole houtitu idea and ended up turning into like a business in the career somehow. Could you give us a specific example of barriers you've kind of had to cross? Ultimately it's like you have to pay the bills at the end of the day obviously but at the same time you want to be chasing your passions or chasing what you're passionate about. So that was why the whole idea of us staying late nights at the studio working for free, just doing things that you're just keen to do. Failure is so key if you make sure that you're learning from them because you could fail a thousand times and if you don't take anything from it then it's definitely a bad thing for you to stuff up and then you find out what it is that you did wrong during that stuff up and then you do things to make sure it never happens again. Then that failure, if anything, looks like a step forward instead of like a step back. Hey bro, what are you up to? Just having a jam here on one of our Ngāatua Māori. So this fella here is Rongomatane he's got a piece and cultivated food I'll just go through a bit of the process with you sort of broken all down into layers and then you come down you go all the way down and it starts off with just lines and then as you come along you add another layer of colours and then you're trying to build a bit more detail so you add shades sort of builds you can add highlights and stuff like that. Bro, can you have a jam? Bro, we're good. So you see I'm doing it on the left hand side of these so this is coming from this white is coming from over here Nah, me bro Yeah Bro, you're just a natural man smashing it Yeah I'm going to give you a lesson too so we're going to have a jam on the whiteboard So I'm going to give you a real brief lesson on how to do character design so it's just like basically understanding the individual ideas that will make this character up Do you want to evaluate this last piece? Yeah, so that's mean You get a pass So let's recap what we just learned You can pay your bills and chase your passions Gain experience by volunteering Be okay with making sacrifices to achieve your goals and dreams If you stuff up find out why and learn from it Showcase your creativity in today's epic digital environment Sometimes it's good to be your host or to make sure you check out our other awesome industry videos on the Maya website