<~ Note: The VFXTippingPoint Twitter Feed will be ALWAYS be more up to date with articles, bits of news, & discussions...Aug 16th
You can not write serious journalism on the VFX industry if you are not reading @VFXSoldier . Grade --> Incomplete : http://t.co/wQkM53ceHV
— Dave Rand (@daverandcom) August 16, 2013
- Britain Starts Rollout Of High-End TV Tax Credit (deadline.com) - Aug 16, 2013 @ 13:37 UK
- Film industry watching NC tax credit debate (wral.com) Calling the tax refunds "welfare checks to Hollywood," Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, R-Wake, told WRAL News earlier this year that production companies were gaming the system. - Aug 16, 2013 @ 3:04 pm
- Locarno Film Festival: The Legendary Douglas Trumbull on the Past and Future of Visual Effects (film.com) Trumbull on 120fps, why The Hobbit looks like TV & why Kubrick wins - Aug 16, 2013
- From the Berkshires to Bollywood ~> Produce it, own it, only way to operate VFX house in Massachusetts (thetranscript.com) - Aug 16, 2013
next week, pubEvent organized by BECTU.Perfect chance if you want to chat about #vfx issues, even for non union peple http://t.co/xoA0mcMGKi
— Alberto Della Regina (@AlboDr) August 16, 2013
Aug 15th
- Computer Graphics Are To Film What Synthesizers Were To '80s Music (huffingtonpost.ca) - Aug 15, 2013 @ 5:28 pm
- New York Post-Production Hiring Up 25% After State Increases Credits (thewrap.net) Seven post-production facilities have opened in the state since 2012 - Aug 15, 2013 @ 9:08 pm
- ILM is Coming to London for a Recruiting Event (Lucasfilm Animation Singapore) (lucasfilm.com) Benefited, Hourly, Short Term - Aug 15, 2013
- See Also: Double Negative Singapore is looking for VFX professionals (cgmeetup.net) - Aug 8, 2013
Reading http://t.co/avqCBtQhD2 on economics, bubbles; wondering, might audiences respond if informed of unethical vfx biz practices?
— VFX Fan (@VFXFan1) August 15, 2013
Aug 14th
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| Real Recognition Doesn't Require a Statue. by Jesse Toves |
Friends don't let friends work unpaid overtime @RainmakerEnt @MPC_VFX @ImageEngine @BronAnimation #vfxunion #vfx
— James Burbank (@gRiverThriller) August 14, 2013
- LOOK Effects Hires Director of Finance David Embley (awn.com) - Aug 14, 2013 @ 12:15 pm
- Digital Domain Ups Flier, Clotiaux To Head, Respectively, Advertising & Games, Feature Prodn. Divisions (shootonline.com) New era underway after Digital Domain's acquisition by Sun Innovation, Ed Ulbrich's stepping down as CEO - Aug 14, 2013
- UK's LipSync Post adds VFX supervisor George Zwier to their team (screendaily.com) - Aug 14, 2013
Things to Know about Labor Conditions in the #VFX Industry http://t.co/VedyOSoEx0 via @MediaIndustries from June 7th, 2013
— VFX Tipping Point (@VFXTippingPoint) August 14, 2013
Aug 13th
- R.I.P.D. is Mass. film tax credit program's top flop (Database) (bizjournals.com) - Aug 13, 2013 @ 3:35 pm
- Six Months After Protest, Very Few Answers for LA Visual Effects Work (huffingtonpost.com) - Aug 13, 2013 @ 2:59 pm
- Rushes Revamps VFX / CG Team with Two Senior Hirings (televisual.com) - Aug 13, 2013
- Digital Domain 3.0 Promotes Clotiaux and Flier to Division Presidents (btlnews.com) - Aug 13, 2013
@VFXTippingPoint @VFXSoldier @HuffPostBiz My friend @hypercubexl heard someone refer to L.A. as a Digital Dustbowl.
— Jerry Kung (@jerryin3d) August 13, 2013
Aug 12th
- Layoffs At Crystal Dynamics, Tomb Raider Team Unaffected (gameinformer.com) - Aug 12, 2013 @ 4:47 pm
- VIDEO: The Summer Of The Flop - Tentpole Fatigue but still makes sense to go BIG (live.huffingtonpost.com) - Aug 12, 2013
- Clotiaux and Flier Upped at Digital Domain 3.0 (live.animationmagazine.net) - Aug 12, 2013
- Digital Domain Ups Terry Clotiaux to President of Feature Films (hollywoodreporter.com) - Aug 12, 2013 @ 1:41 pm
- Struggling VFX company Digital Domain announces two new veteran executive appointments (latimes.com) - Aug 12, 2013 @ 12:08 pm
- Digital Domain 3.0 Ups Terry Clotiaux, Rich Flier To President Posts (deadline.com) - Aug 12, 2013 @ 10:48 am
- German VFX Company CinePostproduction Bankrupt (hollywoodreporter.com) The insolvency of the Munich-based outfit follows the bankruptcies of giants like Digital Domain and Rhythm & Hues. - Aug 12, 2013 @ 9:38 am
- See You in a Month: Why Americans Need to Get Serious About Vacations (tlnt.com) - Aug 12, 2013 @ 7 am
- The future of motion graphics (computerarts.co.uk) - Aug 12, 2013
- NZ announced better film and TV production incentives (kftv.com) - Aug 12, 2013
- A Hi-Res Look At Disney and Pixar’s Animated Future (filmschoolrejects.com) Working plans through 2021 for Feature Animation VFX - Aug 12, 2013
VFX houses will always be around just smaller. Big houses like ILM will survive but that model is dying off. #VFX http://t.co/oY6AwzrISf
— Scott Ramsey (@scottLA1) August 12, 2013
Aug 11th
- All That Expensive CGI & 4 Reasons Why Hollywood Should Start Spending Less (whatculture.com) - Aug 11, 2013
Aug 10th
- MLA Thornthwaite says B.C. film industry's future is bright (nsnews.com) - Aug 10, 2013
Aug 9th
MPC > Inside the world-class #VFX studio http://t.co/y3sIVYjMWi via @3DArtist See Also: @TheVFXWatchers Reviews > http://t.co/43QScGk1E3
— VFX Tipping Point (@VFXTippingPoint) August 14, 2013
- An Open Letter To Peter Jackson (Please Come Back) Asks Him to Put Down the CGI (whatculture.com) - Aug 9, 2013
- Is it the End for the Visual Effects (VFX) Industry? Why Hollywood Could Look Different (zacuto.com) - Aug 9, 2013
- Is the 3-D fad over? (insidemovies.ew.com) Stereoscopic / 3D Conversion VFX- Aug 9, 2013
Aug 8th
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- The 3 legged stool, a plan to save Visual Effects Studios (jorgesanchez3d.wordpress.com) - Aug 8, 2013
- Half Of Us May Soon Be Freelancers: 6 Compelling Reasons Why (linkedin.com) - Aug 8, 2013
"Visual effects vendors build skyscrapers based on a napkin drawings and then are told to tear them down and rebuild them on their own dime"
— Emery Wells (@emerywells) August 8, 2013
Aug 7th
Sony Pictures Imageworks in Culver City, Calif., is laying off 100 workers involved in visual effects and animation because "the work is being outsource to Canada and India," according to Susan Campos, a TAA specialist with the state of California in Los Angeles. (manufacturingnews.com)1000 days ago @IATSE announced intent to organize visual effects. How is apathy + fear working out for you? #vfx http://t.co/Xt7yIVxpth
— Jeff Heusser (@neonmarg) August 7, 2013
- VFX Soldier: Circumvention Through Hollywood Accounting (vfxsoldier.wordpress.com) - Aug 7, 2013 @ 9:07 am
- Hollywood filmmakers lured to Britain by tax credits (cnbc.com) Tax breaks are succeeding in luring top Hollywood filmmakers to Britain, according to the director of the British Film Institute's Film Fund, who argued the country's economy benefited as a result. - Aug 7, 2013 @ 5:05 am
#VFX artists please follow @scott_squires @daverandcom @neonmarg @VFXSoldier and then sign a union card pic.twitter.com/8g1RjzAwuE
— Nick Lambert (@NickLambert) August 7, 2013
Aug 6th
The VFX industry crisis is especially dire for the legions of massively indebted graduates desperate for work in their field. #vfx
— VFXG (@V_F_X_G) August 6, 2013
- Pixar deal shows pitfalls of Disney's Lucasfilm and Marvel acquisitions (secure.globeadvisor.com) - Aug 6, 2013
- California Seeing ‘Profound Erosion’ of Production (variety.com) $100m isn’t large enough to reverse the trend. - Aug 6, 2013 @ 1:41 pm
- Despite $190m loss/failure of The Lone Ranger, Disney to stick by its strategy of making BIG/Tentpole films (hollywoodreporter.com) - Aug 6, 2013 @ 1:32 pm
Aug 5th
- World Renowned Visual Effects Studio (MPC) To Launch New Global Initiative In Derry-Londonderry’s CultureTECH Festival (syncni.com) - Aug 5, 2013
- Newly named shop opens L.A. operation: Sol Design FX, the design and VFX arm of Cutters Studios is now known as Flavor (shootonline.com) - Aug 5, 2013
- DreamWorks Marketing Chief Quits (awn.com) - Aug 5, 2013 @ 6:22 pm
- DreamWorks Plans to Sell $300 Million of Bonds to Repay Revolver (bloomberg.com) - Aug 5, 2013 @ 6:14 pm
- Turner Promotes David Levy (awn.com) - Aug 5, 2013 @ 6:10 pm
Aug 2nd
- A Film Tax Credit Fiasco (latimes.com) Tax incentives for movie and TV filming don't bring lasting benefits to the taxpayers who subsidize them. Worse, many such jobs get outsourced overseas. - Aug 2, 2013 @ 6:24 pm
- Miramax, Weinstein Co. Talk Potential Merger (Exclusive) (variety.com) - Aug 2, 2013 @ 1:45 pm
- Report: Weta Digital's Hollywood Handouts Not Panning Out For New Zealand (nzherald.co.nz) - Aug 2, 2013 @ 9:30 am
- The Witcher developer opens new studio in Krakow, Poland (venturebeat.com) - Aug 2, 2013 @ 9:02 am
- Dream Jobs You’ve Never Heard of: Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic (geekdad.com) - Aug 2, 2013 @ 6 am
Since when did all the Digital Domain execs get removed from the site? http://t.co/wnXJWh8fgT #VFX
— VFX Soldier (@VFXSoldier) August 2, 2013
Aug 1rst
- ‘Avatar’ to Get Three Sequels, Fox/Cameron Hire Screenwriters (variety.com) - Aug 1, 2013 @ 11:04 am
- TAG Blog: Paramount Ramps Up (animationguildblog.blogspot.com) - Aug 1, 2013 @ 9:50 am
- DD’s Shady Deal & Forming The Trade Organization (vfxsoldier.wordpress.com) - Aug 1, 2013 @ 8:31 am
Phil says 30 years ago, hormonal on-set chimpanzees were the #1 threat to CA FX artists. Today, subsidies & tax incentives. Perspective FTW?
— Tippett Studio (@Tippett_Studio) August 1, 2013
Still not a single review posted on http://t.co/Q0JABKXkaP about New Breed #vfx. Did nobody actually work there?
— Scott Squires (@scott_squires) August 1, 2013
