Guy takes risk going for dream job, risk kinda doesn't pay off. He must really like retouching video to do all that for it though... and must really want to be paid well for it to go through all that effort for a job. So surely you can't complain at the risks of chasing the dream, if that is indeed his dream?
The insanity of it all is that no one really wants to change the system by saying "no" to the higher ups. We all have this idea that someone else is waiting to jump in and take our spot in this industry, and while that may be true... if everyone just quit when faced with retarded 100 hour work weeks then it would put the…
All I read in this thread is "I only meet successful students that made it, so this guys must be a dumbass..." Seriously, what hell, is it Polycount Angst Thread day, and I forgot?
its a sad story, but it really seems like he's doing this all wrong. He had a roof over his head while living with the parents, but instead of finding a job first and then moving out he decided to go out on a whim and to no suprise got burned. When you're desperate you will take shit jobs, the trouble there is that it…
It's not that, it's that the vfx industry has a lot of problems right now that aren't being fixed by the artists who have the power to do so. This guy got skrewd over and there are a lot of parties responsible. To say it's all his fault is going a bit far imo. But obviously he holds some of the blame. I actually know a lot…
what the fuck. seems like a sob story to me, if hes not being paid properly, why continue to do that VFX job and not even get a normal job? maybe im jaded but if I was ever asked to work a 100 hour week and was making less than 150g+ a year I simply would refuse and tell them there was no way in hell im doing that. the…
First of all I don't support exploitation of young people. I saw similar outragious anecdotes in Toronto's animation industry where studios hire 4-year university grads for full time unpaid "intern" positions (dig up canadiananimationresources site's archives). But I can understand why this guy did what he did. No career…