While looking for motion graphics, I found VideoHive. Its a newish website that is a marketplace for stock footage, motion graphics, and project files. Its quite affordable and has a lot of user-generated content.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles
I found this site recently, Forget the Film, Watch the Titles, which is a great curated selection of film/tv/game titles.
Tighter schedules/budget for vfx
I'm re-posting an excerpt of this interview with Visual Effects Society Chairman Jeffrey Okun.
"Schedules for creating effects are getting shorter, and lots of visual-effects companies are going under. When the studio doesn't like one company's answer they get rid of them and call in somebody else until they get to whoever will go 'Yeah, we can do that' at the price they want.' "
Okun reasons that, as filmmaking shifts toward an all-digital production pipeline, visual-effects houses deserve an equal voice in the decision-making process.
"The perception is that visual effects are driven by really smart computers with cool buttons that make things go faster or look better," he says. "There's a lack of understanding that the process is driven by artists." The film industry's faster-cheaper mantra has caused "tremendous stress and strain," Okun says.
The Visual Effects Society is holding a summit to address this issue.
"Schedules for creating effects are getting shorter, and lots of visual-effects companies are going under. When the studio doesn't like one company's answer they get rid of them and call in somebody else until they get to whoever will go 'Yeah, we can do that' at the price they want.' "
Okun reasons that, as filmmaking shifts toward an all-digital production pipeline, visual-effects houses deserve an equal voice in the decision-making process.
"The perception is that visual effects are driven by really smart computers with cool buttons that make things go faster or look better," he says. "There's a lack of understanding that the process is driven by artists." The film industry's faster-cheaper mantra has caused "tremendous stress and strain," Okun says.
The Visual Effects Society is holding a summit to address this issue.
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