Multiple contracts question

I am a junior in the vfx industry, with almost one year of experience, and I was lucky enough to land a junior role with a studio earlier this year. After the contract finished I applied everywhere and ended up signing a new short term contract with another studio that wasn't really my first choice.

Shortly after starting, I recieved another offer from the studio that is my number 1 dream studio to work at.

I want to handle this professionally and avoid burning bridges. How common is it in VFX to move studios mid contract? Is it better to tell the dream studio I’m already contracted and unavailable until it ends? Or is jumping around a more common thing?

I don’t want to burn any bridges, but I also don’t want to miss what could be my only chance to work at my dream studio.

Looking for advice!

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I'm trying to find a free gunshot and smoke asset pack

I'm new to vfx and I'm trying to find simple 2d vfx pack shown in websites like this : https://www.actionvfx.com/
but for free


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I want to learn VFX n ANIMATION…. Can anyone help??? I want guidance and course



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Do any pros use Fedora Workstation?

I'm pretty sure Rocky and Alma are two of the most popular operating systems in the vfx industry? Wondering if Fedora Workstation is ever used, it should be compatible with all the technical pipeline systems and the apps since Rocky/Alma are based on RHEL, which is based on Fedora. Right?

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Texture/flipbook resources?

Hi y’all’s,

So I’m a 4th game dev student who is pursuing VFX and I’m having trouble on finding tutorials/online classes to dive deeper into how to make custom/stylized textures and flip books, do yall happen to know of any?

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Seeking VFX Artist for Indie Game | Revenue Share | Final Development Stage

Hello everyone,
I am currently working on a commercial indie game that is in the final stage of development and close to completion.

I am looking for a VFX Artist to help with a small amount of VFX work. The workload is not heavy, as most of the game is already completed.

If anyone interested then dm me

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Getting hired on low pay scale

Hello guys, I am senior vfx artist from india and I have been away from vfx field for a while. Since I am trying to get into vfx again but looks like my salary has been an issue for some recruiters. Recently I have heard that big studios in india are hiring artists on 20 to upto 50% less than their previous salary and they also doing same with their former employees.
Would like to know if it's happening with all studios? If it's true then I guess we have reached the end of bridge and this field is dead atleast for senior artists.
Thanks

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Tracking Purgatory

I am working inside of 3DE4, this track feels pretty straight forward. I am having a difficult time getting my pixel error below 1.5/having my markers hold in place. This is the closest I have gotten this solve. I have been training to maintain a minimalist approach of having the least possible points tracked to get a solve and it has worked well. But i am curious how to move forward from here. The footage was shot on the iPhone 17 pro max in prores log using the 0.5 lens... I have my focal length set to adjust as I have not adjusted the filmback size. As well as my distortion degree 2 and degree 4 as adjust. Any ideas or insight would be much appreciated

https://reddit.com/link/1px6ui0/video/j32hmuyqws9g1/player



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Speaking of Spaz (Steven Williams)

Anybody know how he's doing these days?

He deleted his Reddit account few months ago ...or he got banned by Reddit because of his constant trash talking and bickering? Still remember his fighting with John Knoll on here and his shit-talking about ILM/ Muren.

I hope he at least is (still) completely sober.



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Demoralizing yet funny email tells me I'm not one of 4,304 VFX candidates to make it to the short list of 675. Is it really this competitive and tough out here?
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VFX of Avatar: Fire and Ash

I haven't seen any post about Avatar 3's VFX.

Having worked on the VFX ,what do you guys think of the VFX?
Any highlight or weak points did you guy spot? or Did you find it consistent through out the movie?

I am also curious to hear if you spotted the sequence that ILM did?

Story wise I think its about time James Cameron pass on the next 2 sequel to another competent director for selfish reason. I want to see him move on to other sci-fi/action movie project.

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Action camera for VFX??

Hi everyone! Could you please advise whether it makes sense to buy an action camera (DJI Osmo Action, Insta360 Ace Pro 2) for shooting vertical videos for Instagram?

I’m planning to do tracking and composite 3D objects into the footage. I’m looking for an alternative to an iPhone; mirrorless cameras are not an option for now due to budget limitations.

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Best way to go about this screen replacement.
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