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I'm in vfx, and have been for a total of 4 years. I started in kids tv animation in 2014 with the goal of eventually getting into fully animated features. But thats a job pretty much every animator under the sun wants to get, so I found it easier to find a gig in vfx, which allows for the same high level of animation but integrated with live action. The first vfx film I worked on we did 80 hour weeks for 6-8 months, the film bombed, the studio closed, covid happened and no one had any vfx work for 1.5 years, and I went back to kids tv for a while. Then the boom of 2022 happened, I went back to vfx, things were great sorta but very very busy and more chaotic than they should have been, then the strikes happened and I kept my job but watched 90% of my friends get laid off and be without work for about a year now. Being in vfx is pretty interesting, you really get to see how the sausage is made and I've gotten a chance to contribute to some huge movies. But vfx companies don't have "profit margins", so to speak. So they are attempting to get profit margins by sending everything to India. It has been a pretty fun job overall though, which is why the fact that it might go away soon (in the next 3-5 years either due to outsourcing or AI) is sad. Ccs fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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I heard shoot days in LA are back to early 2021 levels, and all the soundstages in montreal are booked right now. They were even shooting the new karate kid near me yesterday and today. Are movies back? In vfx i doubt we'll feel the effect until september or so.
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