MASTERING THE JOURNEY
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Mastering Visual Effects & 3D Animation
“You only get out of school what you put in.”
This statement has always perplexed me. It puts 100% of the education responsibility on the student and none on the school. If you were to express this in math it would look something like this:
This is not a post related to 3D animation or Visual Effects. It’s not about any digital art or even computers, directly. But it does show how easy it can be to introduce a relatively complex subject even to children if it is framed in the right way….
As a visual effects supervisor, and now as the owner of a highly successful visual effects school, it is important for me to be able to offer salient, reasonable critique of motion pictures I see, not least because our school focuses on feature film quality visual…
But First, a context. A Brief History of Visual Effects Digital Visual Effects is a funny and awkward industry. It hasn’t been around very long compared to, say, the film industry. It is still young and therefore, like a teenager, in a constant state of change….
Visual Effects Artists are Not High Tech Professionals.
Here in British Columbia, Canada, there is a special employment arrangement for people who fit into a category called the “High Technology Professional”. Under this category, 40 hour work weeks, standard overtime pay and statutory holidays do not apply.