Hasta La Motion!

As soon as I discovered vfxTalk I came directly to this Forum!

I’ve been reading some of your posts and I think I found the right place to ask for some guidance.

Let me tell you a little about myself, I’ll be as brief as I can.

When I was a little kid I became rapidly attracted by programming: the idea of having to solve a problem through logic, the science in it. I decided I wanted to solve problems for a living and therefore, asked my parents to take me to a Computer Science-oriented high school. So I went and felt at home, really happy.

Despite that, through the years I realized that most of my classmates were really bad when it came to social skills or even talking about other things. I realized then that if I kept following the same path directly to Computer Engineering, I’d keep meeting the same people. So I decided to take a break and applied for the National Film Making School while watching lots of movies, reading lots of books and listening to lots of music. A radical change.

I graduated finally, with a Film Editing degree, and through those years I met lots of different kinds of people, and learned about art too. But during the last third, I found myself more and more intrigued by the technical aspects of filmmaking and postproduction than by the artistic process.

So I decided to start studying Computer Engineering at last, something I still do.

I love programming, but I need to get out of the mainstream bussiness it is applied to. I want to be surrounded by people like me and I usually find that in people interested in art. I want to solve problems related to physics, maths, colors and shapes, and not currency, stocks and invoices.

That’s exactly why programming for the film, 3d and visual effects industry is what I want to do.

But I can’t.

I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I’ve only managed to contact only one studio willing to pay for my work, but they don’t a significant work volume for me to live out of it. I keep searching, I keep hitting walls.

And that’s why I’m writing to you.

I’m looking for any kind of advice on finding people willing to hire or guide me in order to start working form Argentina (I need to finish my studies here!) designing and coding ANYTHING related with VFX, CGI or workflow design.

Is it possible work from here? I don’t mind doing small/dirty/boring jobs at first, I just want to do what I love.

Thank you a lot for your time and attention!!

Ariel Janover