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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

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

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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

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Calling all budding Trainee VFX Junior Compositors. Get your reels ready! Two roles up for grabs; https://lnkd.in/ekyYkSzM. Top tips below; Hiring teams at Aardman are busy and compassionate people who love to match individuals with amazing career opportunities. We receive many, many applications, and frequently see basic mistakes that prevent candidates moving to the next stage. Here are some top tips that we hope will help you stand out from the crowd! 1/ Give yourself plenty of time to put together your application. 2/ Read, read, and read again the job description. What is the studio looking for and how well do your skills match the role? 3/ Make sure you tailor your application to the specific studio you are contacting and include any required key skills/level of experience/software knowledge and personal specifications. 4/ Keep all your contact details/reel information and passwords together in one place – your CV! 5/ Always include a covering letter. This gives you the opportunity to support your application and make it personal to you. Include one or two brief paragraphs about yourself and include what you do to support your creativity and passion for animation. 6/ Do your research about the company, people, projects, and policies. Dig deep and find something unique to mention in your covering letter. This shows interest and attention to detail. 7/Many roles require you to have a portfolio and/or reel. Make sure it is well-put together to highlight only your very best work that captures the viewer in the first 10 seconds, and demonstrates your skills, level of experience and personal style. 8/ For CG/VFX specific roles, make sure you include shot breakdowns. Detail your artistry and credit studio production names, “baking” text into a horizontal banner in each shot/sequence. For students who have collaborated on a group graduation film make sure you include your specific shots to showcase your individual skill. 9/ Test your reel link – make sure it works! If it is password protected remember to share the details and include it in all correspondence. 10/Don’t submit your application at the last minute or too near to the closing date as recruiting teams may interview as they go. Good Luck!

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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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#gamedev #gamingindustry #gamingjob Hi everyone! Some of you may remember my recent posts about me looking for a job - I still am, but that's not the focus of today. A lot of my colleagues, extremely skilled ones, are looking for new jobs as well. I am unable to cover everyone in a similar situation among the people I've worked with for the last year or so. I hope nobody feels like it's unfair of me that I didn't include them - these are just some names from the top of my head. Let's go! Mikołaj Żelazny - an extremely skilled QA specialist; he joined the team I've been working with mid-work and caught up with the project in a blink, bringing the QA department to the next level. Łukasz Kwiatkowski - a great game designer and person who owned the combat design like an absolute champ; he is a unique mix of experience and diligence. Oskar Trochimowicz - an brilliant 3D artist, no matter what you ask of him, he will probably deliver something that exceeds your expectations. Piotr Wójtowicz - a talented VFX artist ready to bring your game to the next level; he is able to adapt quickly and take on any challenges and is a great person to collaborate with. I hope some of you might think back to this post if, by chance, you're ever in need of people with their skillsets. There is a possibility that, if any of my close colleagues are in need of that, I'll post another list or two, but I hope I won't have to and that everyone in need of a job right now will eventually find their place. ❤️ If you could leave a reaction for the visibility of the people I've mentioned, I'd be eternally thankful! (adorable image in the post: eggsdoodz @ Instagram)