Have you given up on your dreams of working in the film industry yet?
Long ago.
I'm about to give up on my dreams of ever moving out of my mom's basement.
>>66702175
It ain't my dream. So no.
>>66702214
How old are you?
>>66702175
Yes. I was a vfx artist. I didn't even get to work at a major studio and my 7 years doing it burned me out badly. I would love to go back to doing effects, but the studios are shit, the pay is great but you work shit hours, and curry shitters do shittier work than you do but studios are ok paying them pennies for it.
I wanted to at least work on a major motion picture, but I just couldn't take the abuse.
>>66702435
Give us more anon
I was thinking of going this route since my chances of getting into theater at my age and with my autism is zero
What kind of videos and for what kind of clients?
What did you hate the most?
>>66702435
What do you do now? What are your plans for the future?
My screen play is being bidden on and my novel is just hitting publishing.
Good nuff.
I never wanted to be in the industry though. Industry is for cucks.
Be like David Lynch and make your own studio
>>66702175
>>66702728
>My screen play is being bidden on and my novel is just hitting publishing.
Assuming you're not just engaging in wish fulfillment how did you reach the situation where your script is being bid on?
What's the genre and premise?
Bitch. I gave up my dreams of working in the comic book industry and that shit is even easier to get going on.
>>66702792
>Genre
HAHAHHAHA PLEB
An English major friend never had a script turned into a film, but he did get some sold for small stage productions.
I remember he said while in Japan he was thinking of writing a short film and filming it in that "suicide forrest" over there, but never got around to it.
>>66702859
What?
Never.
>>66702696
>>66702717
First job was for a startup. I was the only 3D artist. The company was trying to build an online university and I was supposed to be doing POC mockups to show investors. I worked up to 120 hours one week to deliver our promo video. Once I found out that company was going no where I bailed.
Got a job at Universal Studio Orlando a few years later, that job was pretty chill. It was mostly doing motion graphics, and some CG for the backlot. Stuff for ride promos, and doing seasonal decoration mockups for all the stores on the lot.
I wanted to move into film so I left to California on a contract job. First contract was for a small studio doing mostly commercials for around the LA area. Nothing fantastic just cheap motion graphics onto already edited video.
Next job was for a legit studio. My forte has always been motion graphics, compositing, and character modeling. I started as a render wrangler and also working on compositing and matte paintings (mostly set extensions) for whatever shots needed it. Nothing was for a movie, I think most of it was for businesses who hired the company for whatever marketing/employee training material they needed. I was promised to eventually move into the team that worked on films but that never happened. I was getting paid great but whenever they were on a deadline I ended up working extra hours to meet those deadlines. Another job where I worked almost 100+ hours weeks.
Last job was for believe it or not, was for Golden Era Productions, which is the Scientology's own personal studio. I didn't know who they were when I took the job, the recruiter didn't say. Just told me the name of the studio and I never bothered to look it up. I worked on a lot of their "tech" videos that they would sell to their members. It was the creepiest job I ever had. The sad part is, it was the best paying job I had and probably the most comfortable, but I also worked long hours there...(out of room new post coming)
>>66702859
> If you take the sex acts out of a porn film, if you take out the songs from a musical, if you take out the gun fights from a Western, then you don’t have the thing there that the person came to see. And when I understood that, I understood so much more. It was as if a light had been turned on in my head because it answered the question I’d been asking since I was a kid. I knew that there were spy novels, and I knew there were novels with spies in them that weren’t quite the same. I knew that there were cowboy books, and cowboy films, and there were also books and films that took place amongst the cowboys in the American West that weren’t cowboy films. But I didn’t understand how to tell the difference, and suddenly Idid.
> If the plot is a machine that allows you to get from set piece to set piece,andthe set pieces are things without which the reader or the viewer would feel cheated, then whatever it is, it’s genre. If the plot exists to get you from the lone cowboy riding into town to the first gun fight to the cattle rustling to a showdown, then it’s a Western. If those are simply things that happen on the way, then it’s a novel or a film or a comic set in the West. If every event is part of the plot, if the whole thing is important, if there aren’t any scenes that exist to allow you to take your reader to the next moment that the reader or the viewer feels is the thing that he or she paid her money to get in to see, then it’s a story, and genre becomes irrelevant.
> - Neil Gaiman at MIT
>>66702175
no, was thinking of applying to a media school and specialize in editing or camera work
probably a dumb choice but I am not a smart man
>>66703085
I left because it was creepy and my contract was up. I met a bunch of guys who were seasoned vets who told me horror stories of working their, but they all kept coming back to work there because it pays so well for a short period, and they feed you well too (all food and room is provided). So it's like taking a well paid mini vacation where you work 100+ hours a week lol.
One thing to note, each one of us working there worked 14 to 15 hours a day. That was us as contractors. The org members were in before we were and they left after we left. So if we're working 14 to 15 hours I can't imagine how many hours those org members work, not even enough to sleep. They all looked like zombies.
After that I was hoping to land a job at Blur because I got to be good friends with a long term Blur employee, unfortunately that was back in 2009 when the economy went to shit. I had to go back home and couldn't get a studio to pay for my flights out for interviews. I was tired and frustrated by then of the long ass hours I had worked and that most studios were now outsourcing their work to studios in india. I stopped pursuing it and moved on to being a linux admin and eventually a linux engineer. I make 3 times as much now than what I did at any of my contracts and I have been now doing this job for 7 years. I only work 4 days out of the week too.
But I do miss that work, and yes I regret never having worked on a tv show or a motion picture. Especially since I was so close.
Never give up your dreams. Work hard and study hard. If all else fails,convert to Judaism.
Nepotism finds a way.
>>66702175
No, never will. Unfortunately I've gone through a pretty damn fucked up two years that has burned me out. I still have my goals, but I just don't have the energy for them as of now, taking some time to recharge. My goal is to be writer/director, right now I'm just focusing on my writing.
>>66703251
To add. Lots of my friends who did get to work on films and tv shows also left the industry a few years ago for a lot of the same reasons I decided to abandon it. They were getting fucked hard. I had several friends who were working at small game studios that EA hired to work on their titles and then EA bought and closed the studios before the games launch and several of my friends never got paid for their time.
Lots of little studios get fucked by producers too, they get hired to work for a movie or tv show and so the studio puts all the time and energy to deliver to those producers only for those producers to refuse to pay or try to renegotiate the cost. Most studios will charge half up front, and sadly that's mostly what they end up with out of the deal.
Of the handful of my friends still working in the industry they do it as freelancers and they do it mostly for local studios where they live. The market is saturated now with CG artists who can produce decent results but charge super cheap for it because they do not know how to advertise. Or they do it for free to build up their portfolios in hopes they'll land a big studio job.
There's a lot of competition in the industry and you have to know how to network and how to market yourself if you want to get into hollywood.
>>66703396
>There's a lot of competition in the industry and you have to know how to network and how to market yourself if you want to get into hollywood.
Being Goodlooking, tall, smart, social and talented probably helps out a lot too.
and i thought the roleplay thread was /pol/
seems i am mistaken
>>66703435
HAHAH funny thing is, that's actually something that is happening for a lot of companies in California especially startups.
They want to advertise themselves as being hip, cool and sexy. So they hire hip, cool, and sexy artists, coders, admins etc. If they hire for your skills best be ready to never ever be acknowledge as an employee if you're ugly.
>>66703567
Thank God I was born attractive then and six feet tall.
Nope, I'm dedicated/obsessed with acting and I have a feeling I'll make it big by the time I'm around 26.
I'll shout out to yall when I make it.
>>66703687
How old are you now?
>>66703687
This is how I feel about writing and directing. I can't concentrate on anything else because I'm constantly thinking about this shit.
I'm an actor in Scotland, it pays all the bills so far so I'm pretty happy.
>>66702175
Do commercials count? I work on those. I might do a TV show later this year. Never worked on a movie though.
>>66702175
B-but I work in post-production, anon.
>>66702751
Dont forget to get an Angelo Badalamenti to make all your music also
>>66704528
At what capacity?
>>66704138
20. I'm being realistic here, it takes time. But I feel so dedicated and I already know the ins and outs, I feel myself getting there.
