The Orphanage is Hiring All Your Friends

The Orphanage is hiring people. And by people, I mean these people:

VFX Supervisor
CG Supervisor
Sr. Producer
Production Manager
Production Coordinator
Production Assistant
Maya/Mental Ray TDs
3DS Max TDs
Look Dev/Shader TDs
Fusion Comp Supe
Fusion Compositors
After Effects Compositors
Matte Painters
Hard Surface Modelers
Character Modelers
Character Riggers
Creature Supervisor

Help Desk Assistant
Render Wrangler (Graveyard shift 11pm-7am)
Receptionist/HR Assistant
Recruiter

If you'd like to apply for one of these positions, please send a link to your online reel to: recruiting[at]theorphanage[dot]com. Please specify which position you're applying for in the subject line.

Alternatively, you're welcome to send your reel & resume to the following address:

Recruiting
The Orphanage
Re: specify position
39 Mesa St., Ste. 201
San Francisco, CA 94129

Be an Orphan!

Damn, I talk a lot

Those of you who get the Hollywood Reporter may have seen Orphanage co-founder Jonathan Rothbart and I interviewed for their "Future of Entertainment" special issue. The article is now online, but the writer, Scott Kirsner, has a way cool blog called CinemaTech where he has posted the entire conversation.

Jon and I mouth off about visual effects, previs, filmmaking, distribution, and remix culture.

Blender

Anyone out there using Blender? I hadn't realized it contains a node-based compositing toolset, making it seem almost Houdini-like in that respect. The comping features don't seem to be all that well documented, but look very interesting.

3D/2D integradion is one of my favorite things about Fusion 5. It's quite powerful to be able render simple 3D objects right in your compositing app. I hope to show some examples of that one of these days.

Like, after I finish my book!

Footprints is Brighter

Check it out.

US Navy SEALs "Footprints"