{"id":1167,"date":"2013-02-26T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2013-02-28T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:06:04","slug":"shifting-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1167","title":{"rendered":"Shifting Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The VFX world is rumbling.  After years of enduring impossible deadlines, hours, and too often blatant <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5035250\/journey-to-the-center-of-bankruptcy\" title=\"nonpayment\" target=\"_blank\">nonpayment<\/a>, Life of Pi&#8217;s VFX Oscar win was the final irony: the studio responsible for the award-winning effects is in bankruptcy.  <\/p>\n<p>And if it wasn&#8217;t bad enough, the barest mention of the situation got the winner played off in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/24\/jaws-oscars-life-of-pi-_n_2756380.html\" target=\"_blank\">cheapest style<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if <strong>that<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t enough, the director didn&#8217;t make a single mention of the VFX responsible for so much of his movie:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Ang Lee is so sad about R&amp;H he makes NO mention of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23vfx\">#vfx<\/a> crew at all. A movie that is what % <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23vfx\">#vfx<\/a> HULK SMASH<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Heusser (@neonmarg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neonmarg\/status\/305899890704261121\">February 25, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course you know this means war!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ang_lee_vfx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ang_lee_vfx-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"ang_lee_vfx\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ang_lee_vfx-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ang_lee_vfx.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd others decided to bring the point home in a more <a href=\"http:\/\/beforevfx.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">generalized way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But twitter-snark aside, there is starting to be talk of a <a href=\"http:\/\/vfxsoldier.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">strike<\/a>.  Will it go anywhere?  Desperate workers are often not desperate enough to risk being blackballed, but I think we might have reached the point where they feel they have nothing left to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VFX world is rumbling. After years of enduring impossible deadlines, hours, and too often blatant nonpayment, Life of Pi&#8217;s VFX Oscar win was the final irony: the studio responsible for the award-winning effects is in bankruptcy. And if it wasn&#8217;t bad enough, the barest mention of the situation got the winner played off in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shifting Ground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}