Hasta La Motion!

Q: What’s better than slaving away on VFX jobs in downtown Detroit? A: Doing it all in an abandoned casino!

Seems like the tax breaks the great lakes state is offering have drawn some big VFX money. According to the Detroit Free Press, the facility called Wonderstruck…

would be the first of its kind in Michigan. Wonderstruck said it would deliver full-scale Hollywood productions from inception to state-of-the-art computer generated 3D software. Its content is mostly targeted toward families and young audiences.

They’ll be setting up shop inside an old MGM Grand casino so they better start trying to get the cigarette and spilled booze stench out of the carpets now. Oh, and there is the slight problem of not having anyone there to do the actual work.

Since Michigan currently lacks many workers with the skills Wonderstruck needs, Wonderstruck said it was developing an intense training program for potential new Michigan employees.

I wonder if they will keep the cocktail waitresses and nickel slots open for the new artists in training.

LINK to the full article

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The folks over at VFX Nexus have nice little piece of code up that seems like a great all-in-one solution for keeping your VFX House in order. Aimed squarely at the indi-film and small studio market, VFX Nexus offers a nice suite of well designed tools (some in-house VFX tracking systems look like the control panel of Soviet cargo plane) that’s hosted off-site lowering software maintenance needs and enhancing communication between far flung artists and vendors. It even includes a “Knowledge Base” section so you don’t have to set up a separate wiki. Nice.

LINK to the VFX Nexus main site (make sure you check out the demo)

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A sneak peak at the new Virb interface

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