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This might slowly change as vfx facilities become their own studios and start releasing their own films. An entirely new platform is available for the taking if vfx facilities would use the resources they currently have to make compelling content. On a brief side note, someone said that most vfx artist’s true passion is film-making or screenwriting and that these people would be great filmmakers. I briefly heard a vfx artist start to speak up and I wish he wouldn’t have censored himself. VFX and matte painting is my passion. If given the chance I would take art direction over feature film directing any day. I WANT to be a matte painter/artist. That is my passion. Please don’t cheapen our craft by assuming that we all want to be Directors/Writers.
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A panelist asked what is one thing we could do to help the situation of the VFX industry. Here’s my recommendation: Demand that as many artists as possible are listed in the credits. Never again do I want to see a credit with just the name of the VFX facility listed. Artists used to be recognized on films in the OPENING title sequences. The other night I enjoyed watching Swiss Family Robinson with my family, in the first 5 minutes of the film, Peter Ellenshaw, a matte painter, was listed in the opening credits. This is nothing the individual artists can do, this isn’t even something the vfx facilities can do. This is up to the studio to do.
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