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people don't remember bad practical effects and don't notice good cgi.

This is so insightful, thanks for the in depth analysis of the problems in the industry.

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Miller Amy Lopez David Davis David

Great!

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Very interesting! Just a question, why didn't you do the clothes in Houdini ?

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this was so much fun to watch!! you are a true CG Generalist

Hello, Thanks for the video. Alright if I ask you something? I been using all the other programs and got interested in Houdini especially with the dynamics that always got praised over the years in background. I keep hearing people going on about how different and difficult modelling and animation is in it and was wondering why ?

"We never thought about what was wrong with a shot. We just thought about how to make it better" is a great line to encourage creativity!

ㅋㅋ 정말 ai가 vfx를 대신할 수준인가요? 정답은 아직은 아니고 한참 멀었습니다. Ai 써보면 압니다. 대부분 아직 장난감 수준입니다. 핵심은 Ai는 쓸만하게 나오면 쓰면 그만이구요. 실재 vfx업계 어려움의 핵심은 가격과 딜리버리를 두고 스튜디오들 끼리 벌어지는 과도한 경쟁입니다. 아티스트는 그 사이에서 물리적인 고통과 스튜디오와 프로젝트의 사라짐을 겪는것이구요... 개선되려면 타당한 경쟁을 하게하는 법적인 구속력 정도가 필요한 지경입니다.

Hello, does anyone here have a job as a VFX artist or game developer? Did you guys finish college with a fine art degree, multimedia art degree, or program that is connected to your job field? (VFX artist/game developer) I'm in college now, but I chose the entrepreneurship course because this is what is available at the university. My questions are: Does the company in that field really rely on what degree you have? Can I become a VFX artist or game developer even though I have different finished programs? ( Entrepreneurship)

This one isn’t to my personal liking, it feels like too much gold. The corsage looks like it’s made of metal and the skirt looks a bit poofy and messy for me. It looks like a literal take on the animated dress, which is difficult to translate due to different mediums. Cinderella’s dress in the live action looks totally different from the animated original but still has the Cinderella feeling to it, it’s grand and beautiful, not an exact copy like your render of Belle’s. I like the cosplay example at 1:17, it actually looks like a Princess dress with smaller details and different hues of yellow to look more elegant and rich. It looks like a great live action interpretation without copy and pasting the original’s dress.

It's not worth it. The film industry has nothing but contempt for vfx

Hey, what softwares do you use to edit your videos

VFX isn't going away and it's worth it if you're actually really good at it. The actual problem is that if you're new you need work really hard to meet the right people. I get all my work from people who have already worked with me and I was able to leave a good impression with them. I don't interview with strangers. I don't deal with recruiters on LinkedIn. You have to get to this position of credibility to survive. It's hard, but if you have the appropriate skills you can do it. You need to guard your reputation as if it's the most important thing in the universe. One huge tip I can give newcomers is that productions have a lot of moving parts, and just because you hear about one or actually get an offer to work on one, doesn't mean you won't be waiting up to 6 months for it to actually start. It always takes forever for a new production to start. So your options are limited to waiting for something to start or dealing with the chaos of getting up to speed on a production that has already begun. The latter is typically horrible for a few weeks. Especially if you know a better way for doing certain things and have to dismantle a production pipeline to get it right. Don't shy away from doing that though. That is what builds the reputation that is required to do well.

How did you create the volumetrics in Houdini Solaris?

I agree on pretty much everything expect the AI point. I think the pace at which LLM's and other AI tools improvement is insane, and the new AI cluster training for most of them is getting exponentially larger. 10 years ago, AI wasn't really even a real thing, and now each year it 3X's in improvement. People being worried about job security and being replaced is a real issue, as you should tackle the problem head on, not after its happened.

That’s so amazing and inspiring. Thank you for sharing your progress!

I left this shitty industry 5 years ago. I'm glad I did. Very happy now!!!!

Very nice ❤❤

Vfx artists, it's time to do your own art!

Finally someone said on youtube. Blender is industry standard.

Montreal just let their tax credits expire and it's hitting workers hard

The studio that built Sonic and then rebuilt Sonic went out of business shortly after their work on Sonic.

I think so. What's the long term career path. is the business model sustainable ?

not ok

13:55 Feels like it's not going to be long for it to happen, knowing how rapid they are advancing.

CGI isn't bad, but a lot of movies have been focusing only on the VFX and not so much on story and characters. VFX should be the icing on the cake not the whole cake. I am ok with bad CGI as long as the story is captivating and I sympathize with the characters.

A few of my coworkers are from a well known LA CGI school and everyone single brought up all they heard was how is “demand and high paying” vfx is but not one time mention how work is now stable, you’ll be moving a lot and tons of work is being outsourced. One thing is guaranteed they’ll all have loans over 6 figures.

My biggest hope is that there is a major boost in revenue for online content creation or content creation has some streamlining in how monetization works. Right now, my only work is through other higher following content creators who wants to have an edge compared to their competition. Having animations, effects and other arts is an easy way of doing it.

What the fu*k is the opening? Blender? Really?

it's hilarious that this era has the most advanced tech and greatest filmmaking tools but almost nothing worth seeing.

could you make a dedicated video on my VFX is so expensive, i understand its complicated which is why im so interested, im sure the video would be quite long

I think the trend toward invisible CGI a vital one. It shouldn't even be a controversial topic that audiences don't want their live action film's FX to look like a cartoon or a video game. If I want to consciously ogle graphics for ogling's sake, I'll play a video game or watch an animated film. Blending FX seamlessly into films used to be the default, and we should return to that. When I watch CG heavy sequences that appear as such, my entire brain glosses over and I feel literally nothing. I'm just waiting for the sequences to end so I can get back to the character interactions that make cinema compelling. Idgaf about spectacle if at least some part of me isn't tricked into feeling like it's really happening. Luckily for VFX artists, hidden CGI will require the studios (eventually) to stop rushing projects and overworking artists then obsessing over nitpicking their inevitably imperfect work.

I see you were on that certain reddit thread lol... On a more positive note, IATSE just ratified, so let's see if the dam breaks just a little. I really hope so, as there are lots of good people who've been hurting. VFX is a broken industry though, and has been from the start. Fixed bids, subsidy chasing, etc... In 26 years in this industry, I'd never seen it like this, though this feels like "bottom." Let's hope.

Vfx and 3d is the future now they are becoming more active but you must be professional

i feel like there's a really good analogy to painting guilds and academic painting where they would get pretty good at the technical side of art but they were either working entirely commercial or trying to fit within the academy's classifications for "good painting". that system produced alot of paintings of battles/the bible/greek mythology that were technically competent but creatively not very significant. i might want to make a special painting with meaning to me, but goddamnit here's Aphrodite's ass because i want to win the Prix de Rome.

And im graduating from an animation degree this year😭, time to grind I geuss

One threat so for the future, is the downfall of the movie industry do to really a lake of quality in scripts and acting. To many high quality movies, thar are rubbish

VFX is actually still good paid, however not 3d, but Nuke Specialists still make good money. But you need at least 5 year exp. in the industry. The rest is going down, step by step. Reason are to many for to little jobs, bad payment and a huge competition thru cheap countries. For example, an Indian studio takes less the 10% for same job. That still leaves room for very good artists, but even they are more and more under pressure.

1:05 Holy fuck, Bubbles was in Chernobyl? He was obviously there for the kitties.

This is exactly the same with Junior Developers. Like if you do not have 3 pages of Git repros all done by you, work outside work on developing and started 2 companies you then sold for 1million, then companies wont hire you. Because seniors no longer teach or guide. Like crafts used to be. Master and apprentice but no longer. Companies want ready senior level workers.

No one in the industry is using Blender for VFX. It's a fact. These blender kiddies come into it thinking they'll keep using Blender for life because blender youtubers (who never worked in the industry) tell them blender will take over and it is an industry standard. It won't happen. They get this over-bloated perception of a false reality. They also believe if they get hired they'll immediately start working on features. It just isn't true. Chances are as a junior you won't even be able to do remote work because you know less than you think you know. VFX and animation studios have been struggling for at least 20 years. A single film can bankrupt a studio. Also wages are probably the biggest problem which is why many outsourced and trained people (not artists) in China and India because labor was dirt cheap and labor laws are non-existent so long as the government gets a cut. These unskilled people learned the software without having much creativity to start with and worked their way up to some level of proficiency. Studios folded and these people started posting on Fiverr and making REALLY BAD courses on Udemy, dragging that whole platform down. It's a race to the bottom for studios with some not able to get clients in anymore because they can't afford to go any lower on bids... RIP AXIS STUDIO. Ironically there's a lot of work out there.. A LOT. I think a lot of the work will end up continuing to be dished out to remote studios with main studios managing, depending on scope. VFX isn't going away whether it's for film, TV, gaming, virtual and life production.

Amazing Digital Circus is good

The strikes affected things but the industry is picking back up. There's a huge difference between being a hobbist in unreal and blender and working in a pipeline on a film using Houdini, maya etc with a deadline and a budget. AI isnt ready for a feature film pipeline for many years yet. 3D software is implementing in into software so start using the new tools. My company STAGE23 is currently hiring... We're developing our own IP and are expected to be creating our own feature film by the end of next year. The future lies in smaller studios producing high-quality films that every staff member is passionate about because they have ownership in the project.

Woke nepo writers and greed, all these new shows have pretty damn good vfx but the script is so bad

What about 3D Artists? 😂

I was in the industry and lost my job 10 months ago. I tried everything to see if something would work out. Somehow, I managed to match my salary in 5 months by selling AI images on Etsy, haha, who would have guessed? I will never go back to VFX