LIFE AFTER PI - short documentary about VFX studio Rhythm & Hues

ZacD

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lcB9u-9mVE"]LIFE AFTER PI (Official) - YouTube[/ame]

VFX is one of our sister industries, and a lot of there problems are really relevant to ours, lots of studio closings, subsidies from different cities and countries cause people to move around a lot, etc. It's definitely worth a watch.

skylebones

Thought this was really good. And the whole time watching it I thought "Wow, this exact problem is relevant to games." I've been through the old 'put the key card in the box' routine.

aesir

Great documentary. The oscar snub had me so ticked off.

Justin Meisse

Sounds like what happened to the middle in the game industry, so I guess we made it through to the other side?

fmnoor

Yup, sounds very familiar and relatable to the independant studio / publisher relationship. Wouldn't say games have made it through to the other side though.

Brygelsmack

Just saw this, it even got really emotional for a bit when John almost broke out into tears. The VFX business model is really fucked up, good to see this documentary though in an effort to get more people involved. It's pretty sad how VFX is treated as magic and not as something people spend thousands of hours working on.

RyanB

There were some generally untrue things said about construction in the documentary.

In construction, there are definitely plans made and generally everyone tries to stick to the plan.

But, if the client wants you to change something, it's an extra. A price for the extra is agreed upon. And before you change anything, someone with authority has to sign off on the change. Without a signature on the print, it shouldn't be done.

These extras can be priced at whatever the contractor and client agree to and can be profitable for the contractor. Some clients will push for discounts, of course.

So, the VFX industry has problems with contracts that the construction industry generally does not have.

mats effect

aesir wrote: »

Great documentary. The oscar snub had me so ticked off.

Same didn't even know that had happened until watching this. Sounds like its about time for more fair treatment of 3d artists in general. Total lack of respect when they cut him off and the director thanking pretty much everyone but the VFX team..... yeah time for change.

low odor

This is relevant to the situation...if it goes through, it seems it will have an impact on outsourcing that deals with digital media

http://pando.com/2014/02/25/revenge-of-the-nerds-how-tech-geeks-found-a-secret-weapon-in-their-fight-against-big-hollywood/

Justin Meisse

fmnoor wrote: »

Yup, sounds very familiar and relatable to the independant studio / publisher relationship. Wouldn't say games have made it through to the other side though.

Sounds more similar to the work for hire game studios that made up the middle. The VFX houses weren't approaching studios to make their own movies.

low odor wrote: »

This is relevant to the situation...if it goes through, it seems it will have an impact on outsourcing that deals with digital media

http://pando.com/2014/02/25/revenge-of-the-nerds-how-tech-geeks-found-a-secret-weapon-in-their-fight-against-big-hollywood/

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Clark Coots

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AlecMoody

Hahaha- the stuff at the 15 minute mark is something any freelancer can relate to.