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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Great read!

Some great discussion going on over at mograph.net

via @sketchbookinc

PFMatchIt is the first product to utilize the company’s new 64-bit architectures and the new node-based flowgraph, both of which dramatically improve the speed of the software and the ease of use.

Via @filmbot

Read some of the comments. A real shame.

To keep our well-paying domestic jobs we will need to continually upgrade our technical and artistic skills. Don’t just be a compositor. Be a lighter-compositor. Be the “shot finisher” with superb color correction skills. Get into stereo. Take some art classes and have an artistic hobby to show a potential employer. Bottom line - the higher up the VFX food chain you are the more secure your job is.

The visual effects industry was primed for a downfall almost from the time it was born. Via Eric Alba

Via Neven Mrgan

Some sick work for Clash of The Titans

It's pretty much an open secret in the business that you do feature-film visual effects for prestige — to get a great reel, to keep your artists happy — but they don't make money

My joy in this occupation is cranking out work I'm proud of faster and better than expected.

Santa Maria’s award-winning special-effects company — Cafe FX — could be leaving the area for greener pastures in Texas. Via Eric Alba