CGM students get to do a lot of cool things. We tour production studios, learn to shoot, discover all the interesting disciplines of 2D and 3D production, but none quite as awesome as this. 5 CGM students were invited to the set of Deadpool 2.
I can’t help smiling (on the outside) when I discuss this topic with certain visual effects production people, especially the managers who haven’t had to do 12 – 18 hours straight busting their brain at a computer work station for five months of 6-day weeks. You know…the ones who work 40 hour weeks, including 1.5 hour lunches each day.
When we moved from standard definition to HD, I was very happy. There was a noticeable improvement in image quality. With SD, pixels were sometimes visible and images were soft. HD provided far better resolution. When we moved to 4K, I was a little confused...
This region has established itself as the largest visual effects hub in North America. Tax credits and the lower Canadian dollar initially attracted investment in our industry. Hard work and exceptional talent kept in here.
These rules are for crew submitting to VFX dailies, not for the people running them. The people running dailies already know better and don’t need a lecture about it. Unfortunately junior artists are almost never given a talk about how/what/when/where to submit work to dailies and it takes them years to figure out on their own. This is not only sad, but expensive.
“How do I get into Feature Film Visual Effects?” This is one of the questions I hear most often from potential students. Why wouldn’t they ask that question? Without a doubt feature: film vfx is the coolest, most glamorous and most challenging of all the digital arts….