So they want 30 percent of their work force to be duped students that they don't have to pay? Thats just insulting and disrespectful...not just to those students but to people in our profession as a whole.
If you think about it, if 30% of the workload is from their "student", it means that the remaining workforce would be even more skilled/talented people due to this "filtering". So between veteran and free student, where do you get your entry point with your " not so much experienced but not free" position?
Roto is the standard path into doing compositing. Everyone has to pay their dues in wire removal. If students could get that out of the way sooner rather than later they'd be far better off coming into the industry. That said, this is a business model that I've seen abused a lot in the Australian games industry - studios…
Am I understanding this right? The "motivation" for the students here is supposed to be that they come out of school with a couple feature films on their resume, which would be great for the whole "needing experience to get your first job" aspect of the industry. But because they are inexperienced students they're going to…
If someones work is unusable in production, then sure. Otherwise, this is just plain evil, especially if they're trying to take advantage of students who already have five and six figure debts from school.
The only thing that bothers me is paying to do easy and boring work. If there is some serious and major education and mentoring going on at the sametime, that would be awesome. I just feel like you could pay a techy high school student minimum wage to do clean up.
An article on how Digital Domain CEO John Textor would like to have 30% of his workforce be students... who pay to "have the privilege" to work for them. I could very well see this happen in the game industry as well :| http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/the-paying-to-work-for-free-vfx-business-model/
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…