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The journey of a VFX artist is a passion-fueled adventure, where every frame tells a captivating story 😋 From the initial sketch to the final render, each project presents a new challenge, pushing the boundaries of imagination through the fascinating blend of art and technology As you see, I'm a fan of Hayao Miyazaki, a renowned filmmaker. He once said, "The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos." This quote inspires me to recognize that every detail matters ☝ Working collaboratively with talented teams, I've learned the significance of teamwork, where we share ideas, solve problems, and celebrate successes together. The journey of a VFX artist is about continuous learning, innovation, and transforming the impossible into the possible 🌈 What obstacles have you faced in your VFX career? 🤗 Share your experiences to inspire others 👇 #vfx #career #inspiration

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The Importance of Good Technique in VFX Compositing

Land Your Next VFX Job 👉 Here's 60-minutes of VFX industry insider tips 🎥 https://lnkd.in/de9UNmRf As a self-taught VFX artist, you learn from mistakes... You can either make your own mistakes (the hard way) Or you learn from other people's mistakes (the fast way) Well tomorrow, I'm going LIVE to share the biggest lessons I've learned about getting hired, standing out, and landing VFX jobs at some of the top studios around the world. Just to be clear... I'm NOT saying that to brag, I'm saying that because I wondered for years what it takes to break into the best VFX studios. And it turns out I spent so much time focusing on the wrong things... The bottom line is 80% of it comes down to building a demo reel. And I want to share the few things that made the BIGGEST impact, and leave a step-by-step roadmap you can follow to land your next VFX job. Sound fun? Join me LIVE this Thursday at 7PM EST 👉 https://lnkd.in/de9UNmRf And if you sign up you'll get a recording of the event PLUS a free e-book covering the biggest takeaways

By popular request, here are the countries with the highest headcount in VFX for Creature Technical Director / CFX roles, plus Rigging- and Grooming-focused roles. There’s overlap between these roles, and dividing them up based on job titles is a little artificial. That said, Canada has the highest number of Creature TD / CFX roles in VFX, and the highest total number of artists across these three job titles, by a considerable margin. India has a higher number of roles specifically called out as Rigging or Grooming. Similar charts for other VFX roles can be found here, for comparison: 3D and Environment/DMP: https://lnkd.in/gEVybHrY. VFX Supervisors at VFX studios, Previz/Postviz: https://lnkd.in/gCTWruEd. Compositing, Roto/Paint and MM/Tracking: https://lnkd.in/gUPEVcfP The data comes from a core group of 175 internationally recognized studios that provide visual effects for Hollywood movies, with over 42,000 VFX professionals across all disciplines. #vfx #vfxjobs #globalproduction #filmmaking

This will be a bit of rant of what VFX sup is supposed to do, what is VFX sup's real job. Yesterday I had a chance to share a stage with great crew that made a film that won #Palme D'Or on #Cannes film festival. We had screening and great people from Croatian audiovisual center presented to each of us with a smal replica of Palm D'Or. It was realy nice gesture. Because film is a team work. I worked on that film as VFX supervisor. And it ended up having almost no VFX at all. So question is: why I'm so proud of working as a VFX sup on film having almost no VFX? In my opininion my job, as VFX sup is not to push as much work as possible into VFX studio. My job is to help director tell his story in best way possible while keeping production on budget. In this film, in beginning, we were supposed to do whole lot of environments. Actually almost all environments were supposed to be made with CGI. But we knew that it will be almost impossible to do all of it on time and on budget with quality that it requires. So I spoke with director and we looked at what we REALLY need to show and realized that with slight change to micro location and few tweaks of camera positions and bit fogging of windows we could get almost all environments needed in cammera. And get decent time and money for few shots that realy needed VFX work. That, in my opinion, is real job of VFX sup. To work in a team. To underestand what is emotion and vision that director wants to show. And help team to produce the best possible film with given constraints. And that is why I'm so proud to be a VFX sup on film that had almost no VFX at the end. Thank you #antitalent, Nebojša Sljepčević and #Poster for giving me this oportunity. #VFX #VFXsupervisor #Cannes

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The last post got me thinking - all supervisors and producers in VFX come from various backgrounds. I myself started as a compositor and (between us) am terrible at animation. It doesn't necessarily mean that I need to rush to buy a new course (God knows I have too many unfinished ones), but if I were to work on a heavy animation project, it would be a great idea to have a strong Animation Supervisor to rely on. But there are (in theory) should be areas that VFX Supervisor must know well. Like... probably for all your projects you going to need compositing. And planning. With some budgeting. You also need to ingest material in the right color space and format (yes, that annoying ACES thing). And while in big companies there are dedicated people who cover all that, I believe a VFX Supervisor must, if not be able to do it themselves, at least understand what they are talking about, why they are making decisions towards one solution or another, and so on. Not every company will ask you to bid on projects, but it is a great skill to have. Some of us (me included) are lucky to have amazing producers on our side and can distance ourselves from the boring reality of numbers. But what if your producer is sick or leaves you for someone who can understand resources and planning? We kind of learn all this while navigating our careers, and I bet we have different techniques, strengths, and weak areas. Being a Sup is quite a big responsibility - people come to you with questions all day long, and you need to know the answers or at least pretend that you do and trust your gut (with creative stuff, not ACES, please!). Wouldn't it be great to have a resource, page, masterclass (don't say course) or "bible" with all the base-level information that can help cover areas like I mentioned? Yeah, I know about VES book and I read it, and it is amazing, (thank you VES people for doing that!), but oh my god, the weight of this book makes it not user-friendly. Tips and tricks with small lines of code, automatic spreadsheets, examples of successful implementation of AI tools and so on? I would pay to have access to resource like this! (but of course it should be free). #vfx #cgi #vfxsupervisor #insouleffects #lovevfx

Final post in this week’s series looking at which countries have the largest populations of VFX professionals in various roles. 1 in 13 VFX workers at VFX studios in India are in Production, versus in 1 in 7 in the United States and United Kingdom, and 1 in 8 in Canada and Australia. The study looked at the 4644 Production positions, including VFX Producers, Production Managers, Coordinators and Production Assistants. As you'll see on the second slide, India has the highest overall headcount in Production -- unsurprising given that it’s the country with the most artists. Canada is a close second, followed by the United Kingdom and the United States. Other VFX roles, for comparison: 3D and Environment/DMP: https://lnkd.in/gEVybHrY. VFX Supervisors at VFX studios, Previz/Postviz: https://lnkd.in/gCTWruEd. Compositing, Roto/Paint and MM/Tracking: https://lnkd.in/gUPEVcfP Creature TDs, Rigging and Groom Artists: https://lnkd.in/dZ2WgrKt The data comes from a core group of 175 internationally recognized studios that provide visual effects for Hollywood movies, with over 42,000 VFX professionals across all disciplines. Client-side production staff are not included in this particular dataset. #vfx #vfxjobs #globalproduction #filmmaking

VFX Artists + Filmmakers! Let me ask you a question... What's the biggest difference between a Senior VFX artist and a Junior?  Seniors use references EVERY SINGLE TIME! You never get TOO GOOD for references! In fact, the longer I've worked in VFX, the more I try to capture references myself in real-life! For this Godzilla project, I walked down to Chinatown here in Montreal to capture the perfect reference!  Try to go at the same time-of-day and under the right conditions! Here I can see how neon lights look on buildings, street lamps, headlights, office buildings, everything! No more guesswork, and this will save you HOURS and make your results look BETTER! Want to make your own Hollywood VFX in Unreal? Join our Free Masterclass👉️ https://lnkd.in/ecKPPtVr Whether you're a complete beginner or seasoned pro looking to learn Unreal, you can make your own films FASTER inside Unreal 5! I'll show you how step-by-step #unrealengine5 #unreal5 #ue5 #blender3d #vfx #vfxbreakdown #filmmaking #unrealengine #unrealengine4 #ue4 #cgi #motioncapture #mocap #animation