If you are considering a career in VFX, ask yourself: 1) Will I be able to depend on this career for the next forty years? 2) How many "old people" are working for the company I am interviewing with? 3) Does the job honor seniority, or do they hire the youngest and least experienced workers? 4) Do you get recognition for your work? 5) Do you own your work?
It is wonderful to do something you love, but you need to survive. I have imdb credit in 40 feature films as paint/rotoscoping, or digital compositing. I am an artist and regularly exhibit in art shows. I am 61 years old, in good health, and havn't worked a VFX job in two years.
VFX throws old people in the garbage. When I was 30, I laughed to myself that screen writers cannot get work after 50 years old. Now I realize that VFX is the same. You will not have a VFX job after you are 50 years old.
You better LOVE VFX, because that is all you will end up with, happy memories and no career. You have been warned.
copyright (c) 2019
William Schaeffer
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