Question for experienced Shake users

[Whisker]

Hi MarkH!

I'm sure there are vfx work in Las Vegas, though perhaps not in the film industry, it's more likely in commercial or TV. Your best chance is probably that (either as a freelance or a "small boutique") or perhaps concidering moving closer to a vfx "crammed" city, atleast for a little while until you find yourself with some experience (= good reel) as there probabaly are some smaller vfx studios in LV that need a little more experienced artists.

What do you think?

[JIII]

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/tfr/

might try this :-P

[MarkH]

I sense that compositing is a bit different than 3D in that it's hard to do the work remotely when the artist needs to be in the middle of where the action is at. I know a couple of guys in 3D who are top-notch modelers/texture artists and they have the freedom to work from Miami while contracting with studios throughout California. I was hoping compositing would be equally as flexible, but I really think I'm dreaming. The stuff on Craig List is OK, but I'm looking for a different angle.

I may just stick to my 3D work and see if I can get a portfolio together that lets me freelance from Las Vegas.

[Lorecanth]

Hey mark, sad reality is there isn't much room on the highend here in LV. Most clients if they're going to spend the dough arn't going to go with a freelancer working out of their house (learned this the hard way) they want a studio to walk into, have large screens, and big couches. Also shake while a great tool and nearing the ability to do online motion graphics its not there yet unless you have a massive storage system.

Lastly as far as compositing...for mg its all about the assets. Few places are going to transfer valuable in house assets to an unsecure freelancer. Even in LA no one is going to farm out film plates that take up terrabytes to a guy working at home.

[beaker]

Even in LA no one is going to farm out film plates that take up terrabytes to a guy working at home.Heh, what little you know :)

I and many other people I know have done this on quite a few occasions. Trust, experience and who you know is key though.

One day Ill have to post pictures of some of the apartments and tiny rooms I have worked out of on many big movies.

[Lorecanth]

Trust and experiance that I gather was at one time collected at some relativly well known post house beaker, or from working with guys on diffrent films. You don't give film plates to a guy with a firewire drive and a demo reel. If you do well I'm going to go ahead and say it, thats bad business practice.

The chances of a hard drive failing or a file going corrupt on weeks worth of work grows exponentially when you have anyone working from home. But again as you said it comes down to trust and KNOWING that your freelancer is going to get the job done, again not usually a sensation you get from a guy with a firewire drive and a demo reel. The only exception to this is if you know that the guy built his rig to take into account such things as a HD going bad or knows to save incrementally in files.

Also no offense to anyone else who lives in las vegas but its the rare individual who lives up to the above criteria here (I blame the city).

[koexistens]

Offtopic:

Marcus Hindborg, if you see this, please contact me via a PM or something. Looks like I wasn't allowed to contact you in any way...

Cheers,
/Max

[Whisker]

Sorry about that Max, I've updated my profile so in the future it should be no problem. My mail: marcus@riotfx.com


Regards / Marcus Hindborg

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