Mark Nancetor
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I forgot to mention that both Arndt and Adam have been most helpful also. Thank you guys for all you do here.
Mark
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Hey Brian,
Thank you for your contribution here. After years of using tools like Maya and 3ds max, I have just started learning C4D and have already benefited from some of your answers.
Mark Nance
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Why not ask in the C4D forum?
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[arty] “what am i missing here ?”
Commonsense?
Mark
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Personally, Mark, I don’t claim to be doing research. I am probably just old enough to be your dad and have been working in this industry for 35 years now.
The fact remains that Hollywood is shipping jobs. Many of the reasons have to do with money. Many of those reasons can be found in the high costs of using union workers who are not only expensive but are often prima donnas. I have read plenty of interviews back when Hollywood first began running to Canada and one of the common threads was that the Canadians actually were excited to be working on the project. They found the attitude refreshing. If that’s what they were saying publicly, I wonder what the translation would have been privately?
If that is more than you want to hear, don’t read my posts.
Mark Nance
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Man, you really do know it all, don’t you? I’m glad that you can read the minds of those you don’t know, have spent no time with, and therefore have nothing but your imagination to draw upon. But hey, don’t let that stop you.
I work nice hours, have for years. I don’t work for free. I don’t chase prospects with pro bono work as it only leads to more pro bono work.
Think what you wish, you seem quite good at it, really.
Mark
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Another great resource is Angie Taylor’s book. She really showcases the “why” of After Effects and not just the how. She gives users a real sense of how all the pieces fit together and why.
Mark
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In my business, I believe it’s the face to face interaction with people that gets me my best accounts. I do a lot of cold calling. I explore ideas and then find clients that might be interested in them. I also go out and talk to ad and corporate people about what they are working on. Most won’t see me but I know it’s a numbers game and so I just go on to the next. I’ve gotten a number of clients this way and they are the ones that pay me best.
There really is no substitute for face time. It’s rough but it’s what separates those who ultimately succeed from those who don’t.
Mark
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[Gary Chvatal] “Of course, I could probably make more money if I could get some young and eager kids to work for free.”
You say that as if it’s a bad thing…
:o)
Mark
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Why is it that whenever anyone speaks out against the insanity of what some do in the name of their union, then immediately “20 hour days” and “sweatshops” is chanted?
I have personally been threatened, beat up and driven off the road by union activists who didn’t like the fact that I liked my job just the way it was, thank you.
But if I say union “thugs,” then up goes the defense that it’s only a small percentage. The truth is, it’s only a small percentage of companies that are sweatshops. Most people I have met over the years are fairly balanced.
In either case, it’s the exceptions that get the news.
I am NOT anti-union. Like Andy, I am anti-lazy bastards hiding behind them.
The joke is, what is bright orange and sleeps six? A union road crew truck, working on a highway project. But anyone that has seen the one guy standing on a road project holding a sign, while six people strand off to the side watching, as one guy drives a tractor, the joke isn’t all that funny when its taxpayers paying the bill.
You only have to look at the effect that unions have had on the US film industry to see that they have pushed prices to where it just became cheaper to send those jobs to Vancouver and Toronto.
Union workers are today the highest paid guys on the unemployment line or in job retraining programs. After all, they killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.
Mark Nance