I honestly think something like this, if not executed in a predatory fashion, would be amazing. If you just paid like $1000 to work part time for 6 months and learn all you could, I'd say hell yes (if I were a student). Unfortunately, this is being done in the worst way possible right now.
There are problems with this, obviously, but at the same time working with real world artists on real projects is a great opportunity for any student. I know that when I got out of school and into my first real job, it was almost like starting over with the stuff I learned in that first year. School gives you the basic…
I remember seeing a couple of years ago a news report on the BBC explaining that in recent years students (and their wealthy parents) were paying companies for work experience at top companies, especially legal firms - but still at a low-level obviously. Seems absolutely mental. I remember at the time Vince Cable wanted to…
This is disgusting really. Yes because of the low skill level of the students they will do only the low level bitch jobs, and having a list of feature films with that little personal participation of the total scope will leave them jobless afterwards. Maybe China, and India has the numbers, and thus the power to do those…
gee, you really think outsourcing is cheap because people are paid crap?! outsourcing is cheap because it happens in countries where the loans are lower IN GENERAL or because the studios work with just less overhead (show me one outsourcer that has a gym or a tiki bar or the luxury of even getting on the game credits). Now…
It won't work, good art skills are not determined by class and no one at uni who is about to graduate like me is in any position to blow their money and time on what is just an extension to paid education but with no qualification at the end. I don't buy that it would be useful work experience on the CV either. If I was an…
Since this thread is on page 1 again, lemme say I have to re-think my opinion on DD's pay for school + work. I was recently checking how my linkedin contacts are doing and saw that one has finally graduated from vfs and now works in the film industry as...a jr. roto artist. When I saw that I recalled immediately this…
I only made my opinion open to state that. Actions like these taken in cheap measures only lead to a lower presence for healthy and quality development because there are obviously more stubborn people out there who are more greedy, and selfish for big bucks. While increasing the lowest work standards to treat talented…
Quality in the UK must have gone down then. I worked with quite a few graduates when I was in London who made it right into regular positions. Even here in China we can recruit people into junior positions right away and I wouldn't call the Chinese education system being better than the UK one. Or could it just be that…
I think you confuse this with something someone else said :) Westerners are an exception here and they earn far more than the average Chinese employee because otherwise you just don't get people from the outside with production xp to come to China - they would just stay in the US/EU. Our studio, close to 1000 employees is…