Motivating Monday Week 36

Life Without VFX

Something very important happened at the Oscars this past Sunday. Nothing may have seemed out of the normal at first when Life of Pi received the award for best Visual Effects in a film, but a quick check up on Twitter begged to differ. 

The VFX team that took the stage Sunday night attempted to shed some light on the fact that those special effects artist that make your films so amazing are under paid and under respected.

This attempt was abruptly cut off, but that did not stop people from noticing. 

Many sites around the web are posting story after story supporting visual effects artist that are being taken for granted.

One blog post I found insightful can be found here: 

When winning an Oscar...

This post includes the video of the Oscars as well as some tweets from artists and fans alike.

Also be sure to check out Facebook...if you have a lot of artist fans then you may see a lot of this:

Lets hope this brings some respect to the "starving artist"

-Travis

Wacky Wednesday: Week 7

This lil beauty was released to the public earlier last week.

Click Here for the Video!

http://vimeo.com/34813864

“FotoShop” by Ad-o-be is satire at its best.

I do not want to ruin the surprise of the video for you, so please click play and prepare to chuckle many chuckles.

Props to Jesse Roston and anyone who helped him make this video a reality.

-Travis

Motivating Monday: Week 7

This is a website I enjoy going to from time to time.

Built by Nick Campbell, Joshua Schaible, and Trevor Turk; Reel Roulette’s goal is to deliever random demo reels submitted by designers.
Reel roulette is a great place to go if you need some inspiration on your very own demo reel. Reel Roulette randomly chooses a demo reel to play, if you like the reel you can watch it all the way through and even give the user a like for their great work. However if you get a reel that you just arn’t feeling you are giving the option to skip it.
The site even features a top 20 list of the most liked reels on the site.
Best of all my demo reel can be watched on this website too. =)
See if you can find it…or just take the easy way out and search for it.

Travis out.