Comment on a Linkedin post protesting the "VFX spot at the Oscars:
After working for ten years doing digital colorization, I got a job at Digital Domain in 1996 working as a paint roto artist on Titanic. For the next 20 years I worked on 40 feature films at various VFX houses. In 2008, the stock market crashed and VFX houses started outsourcing the paint and roto work to India and China. I was unemployed for two years. I finally started working other part time jobs. I lost my condo and my life savings. I worked elbow-to-elbow with over one thousand people during my tenure in VFX and remarkably almost none of those people are any sort of friend to me today. I can contact maybe five or ten former coworkers if I need to. Almost half of the people I worked with have left "the industry." To me the repetitive playing of this sanctimonious protest is sadly hilarious. There is no LOVE in VFX and nobody you work with even cares if you are dead or alive. Nothing has changed in the thirty years I have observed the industry and nothing will change in the future. Your "career" is only twenty years long and you will be replaced by eager and unfeeling new college graduates. You have been warned. Stop the "offended hypocritical pretense." Nobody cares.
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William Schaeffer
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