More Visual Effects News

I've been shooting from the hip too much, just posting links on impulse. But does this mean this is the end of another "Golden Age?" Will there be a "Dream on Silly Dreamer" for digital artists?

http://www.dreamonsillydreamer.com/

With outsourcing and the undercutting of narrow profits, sounds like the same old story hand drawn animation went through. With the high expectations, especially of profits, we keep going through these cycles of boom and bust. Technology should be our servant, not our master. But a few folks with connections can pull up stakes and head to other countries with tax incentives, and a lower paid, but talented work force.

Grouchy, ain't I? (Image from Le Voyage dans la lune (1902), copyright Georges Méliès)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/las-visual-effects-community-fears-421201

http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-storm-has-hit.html

http://provideocoalition.com/mchristiansen/story/why-is-the-vfx-business-failing-at-its-moment-of-greatest-success?utm_source=WeeklyNews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=020713