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Fixing It In Post

Posted on June 10, 2011

Great read!

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F*ck You. Pay Me.

Posted on April 11, 2011

VFX Future Looks Bleak

Posted on January 31, 2011

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Hourly Rates Breakdown

Posted on October 27, 2010

VFX artists don't need to be taken advantage of

Posted on August 20, 2010

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Animation, VFX, Gaming Wages

Posted on August 16, 2010

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Scott Ross and The State of VFX

Posted on July 20, 2010

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Good Advice

Posted on June 21, 2010

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.

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The Tragic Plight of Hollywood VFX Sweatshops

Posted on June 21, 2010

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

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