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12 years ago
about the film industry.
My avatar is green. It's green in protest. I am in solidarity with these guys: http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/v.....otestatoscars/
The gist of it is best summed up by one of my old schoolmates: "A protest about how the director of "Life of Pi" said that he wish his VFX was cheaper, and that the visuals were a result of his work and the DP's work. He gave no credit to the actual VFX artists, and now the studio that worked on the movie, Rhythm and Hues (one of the most talented studios in the industry) is bankrupt because he wanted to go cheaper."
You see, we on the visual FX, animation, and pre-prod side of the film industry often get shit for credit, unless it's solely an animated production (but even then it's either watered down tween animation or all about the voice actors). Often when crunch time comes around were work far into the night, and are expected back again at regular hours with little thanks (happened irl). We start missing paychecks (happened irl), and then we watch our friends get picked (laid) off one by one (also happened irl).
To this date, the first movie house I ever worked at still owes me over two grand. I will never see that money. It's not worth suing for. It's not worth trying to find our low life CEO that jumped ship to florida when things started looking bad, but had us still working on his abandoned project. (btw, in florida he started another studio and fucked over some more artists there). Digital Domain got fucked over by the people who ran it. Freakin' Rhythm and Hues - you all know them because they've probably produced effects for at least one of your favorite movies - went bankrupt because of Life of Pi.
Bear in mind, I still want desperately to continue being a part of this industry. I use the term continue loosely because I haven't have a full time industry job since April 2011. In fact that was my last full time job. This industry is so tied up that there are no entry levels jobs. There used to be, but not anymore. SO I find myself in a weird place now: I want to be a part of an indsutry that wants my work, but doesn't think it's worth paying for.
Ain't that some shit.
(I still grieve for The Legend of Tembo. It would have been such a cool flim)
1. DizzyFoxx - inks in progress
My avatar is green. It's green in protest. I am in solidarity with these guys: http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/v.....otestatoscars/
The gist of it is best summed up by one of my old schoolmates: "A protest about how the director of "Life of Pi" said that he wish his VFX was cheaper, and that the visuals were a result of his work and the DP's work. He gave no credit to the actual VFX artists, and now the studio that worked on the movie, Rhythm and Hues (one of the most talented studios in the industry) is bankrupt because he wanted to go cheaper."
You see, we on the visual FX, animation, and pre-prod side of the film industry often get shit for credit, unless it's solely an animated production (but even then it's either watered down tween animation or all about the voice actors). Often when crunch time comes around were work far into the night, and are expected back again at regular hours with little thanks (happened irl). We start missing paychecks (happened irl), and then we watch our friends get picked (laid) off one by one (also happened irl).
To this date, the first movie house I ever worked at still owes me over two grand. I will never see that money. It's not worth suing for. It's not worth trying to find our low life CEO that jumped ship to florida when things started looking bad, but had us still working on his abandoned project. (btw, in florida he started another studio and fucked over some more artists there). Digital Domain got fucked over by the people who ran it. Freakin' Rhythm and Hues - you all know them because they've probably produced effects for at least one of your favorite movies - went bankrupt because of Life of Pi.
Bear in mind, I still want desperately to continue being a part of this industry. I use the term continue loosely because I haven't have a full time industry job since April 2011. In fact that was my last full time job. This industry is so tied up that there are no entry levels jobs. There used to be, but not anymore. SO I find myself in a weird place now: I want to be a part of an indsutry that wants my work, but doesn't think it's worth paying for.
Ain't that some shit.
(I still grieve for The Legend of Tembo. It would have been such a cool flim)
COMMISSIONS ARE CLOSED...for now......1. DizzyFoxx - inks in progress
Daggerocha
~daggerocha
OP
Also, I love the sign that says " My job was outsourced and all I got was this lousy sign". Story of my career.
chazzzz
~chazzzz
Wow that's terrible. And why do you always get the butt-end of things?? At least the news is spreading :/
DizzyFoxx
~dizzyfoxx
That is pretty shitty. It seems all too often that greed wins in the battle of employment.
bloodshot23
~bloodshot23
Yeah, all of what you just said is still one of my biggest worries. I really hope this Rhythm and Hues incident helps light the way for some possible changes in many areas of the industry. I just wish this would have happened many years ago when many entry level positions were being sent away for cheaper prices in the first place. Places like Cartoon Network for example, don't hire animators. People are actually told not to apply for that by their recruiters. To think how many more entry jobs there would be if animation not done overseas, and was not considered an everyday occurrence. 2D was one of the first that this happened to, but now producers are setting their eye on even cheaper CG. Just makes me extremely worried that everyone starting out seems to get undeniably screwed over at some point. )8;;
