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Sindicator on March 7, 2012 |
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Guest Post
by Captain G
Re: Sony Imageworks Pulls the Plug on Albuquerque
What to make of the recent blow to the digital special effects effort here in New Mexico? The state had put a lot of effort and money into creating a good environment for them. This includes a multimillion dollar UNM studio and program to train professionals.
The local news feeds were just not satisfying and had mixed reasons for the move. I wanted to find out more. So I did some digging and found a website for digital special effects people (VFX). This is new site to me but from a scanning of the site it looks legit. You can read their take and I think Sony comes off looking like the bad guy here. It has to do with studio greed and just going where they can get the biggest discount (read Vancouver 46%) regardless of the consequences. The company will take the profit for a few years, shut it down and then find some swamp to settle down in for the next one. Vancouver is a beautiful city but one of the most expensive places to live in the world (yes WORLD). So the professionals are faced with either no job or go live in Vancouver.
“We offer the company 25 percent film incentives, while Vancouver is going to offer them 46 percent. It just makes sense for them.”
- NM Film Office Director, Nick Maniatis
“At least New Mexico was marketable for its lower cost of living.”
- VFX Sodier
VFX also points to the 24 minute documentary, called “Albuquerque the Unknown“, made by around 40 of the actual people who came from Culver City to work in Albuquerque. Most of the comments start out as “I thought it would really suck to move to Albuquerque but then…”. It comes off as a nice tribute to the city and illustrates what these people found here to love. Note the digital rain as one of them is talking during the video. Sadly, some of these same people are probably out of jobs unless they want to move to Vancouver.
- Captain G
Links: Vizworld | Vfxsoldier
Tags: Albuquerque, Sony Imageworks, Tech Jobs
Posted by
Sindicator on August 16, 2011 |
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Thanks Shaun
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Posted by
Sindicator on January 25, 2011 |
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Sony Imageworks is hiring in Albuquerque!
From Prophetic Pictures:
“…three of our current productions are in the final push phase. We’re short staffed in a few vital areas where we need additional artists to help with the effort. You’ll see below there’s a list of the positions for which we’re currently recruiting. Please feel free to forward this information to the skilled and experienced artists whom you know. Please note that due to the nature of the production crunch we’re in, newly hired artists need to hit the ground running. As such, these opportunities probably aren’t right for super new college grads or career transitioners looking for a change. Thanks for your understanding.
Senior to Intermediate level abilities:
Character Animators
Cloth / Hair
Layout Artists
Lighting TDs
Effects TDs — Houdini experience required
Compositors
Look Dev Artists
All positions are either in Culver City, California or Albuquerque, NM.
For immediate consideration: email resume and digital link of work to
recruiting@imageworks.com
Your help is greatly appreciated!”
- Recruiting and Artist Management
Tags: 3D Animation, Hiring, Prophetic Pictures, Sony Imageworks, Tech Jobs, Technology
