If you’ve been watching/reading ‘Game of Thrones’, you’re familiar with the ‘Night’s Watch’, a non-partisan, defensive military order depicted in the series. Leaving the past behind, recruits ‘take the black’ , pledging their lives in service of the realm. My personal quest to escape VFX has been underway for quite some time. These days I [...]
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Soon after hitting ‘publish’ on my last entry, I made a decision. It is in my and my family’s best interest for me to switch careers and get out of vfx. This was the best decision I had made in quite some time and to be honest, I’m now healthier and happier for it. Good [...]
Deadline Hollywood Daily linked this article from the MPAA about the record breaking, 2010 world box office and tossed in a barb about the Hollywood guilds for dramatic effect. When I read the article, what I see is that VFX laden and computer animated films dominated the 2010 box office. Period. End of story. This [...]
“…There you will learn from Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed me.” Variety reports that Richard Edlund, VFX industry pioneer, will be involved in the creation of duMonde, a new VFX facility in New Orleans. Unfortunately for me, Richard wasn’t my particular “Jedi Master” – at the time, I was toiling away in front of [...]
TL;DR = An IATSE VFX union needs to be explored and may be our best option. After attending the poorly attended and ironically unorganized IATSE VFX meeting last Sunday, I made the decision to wade into the discussion and become more active in exploring solutions. I spent a few years working under an IATSE contract [...]
