PSST’er Marcelo Garcia is part of a Brazilian directing association, NOIS, who just launched a new reel. Marcelo also did the cover of the August issue of ‘boards magazine – the Broadcast Deign and Graphics Report.
Other members include Alex Carvalho, Leandro Hbl, Pedro Inoue and Andrezza Valentin.
The Twenty120 films are online now here:
Go check out new work by all these past and present PSST’ers: Matt Tragesser, Jason Koxvold, Chris Hewitt, Rob Chiu, Matt Lambert, Matt Smithson and Mitchell Paone oh and myself.
Thanks again, Connor, for putting together another awesome collection of films this year.
This sounds like a terrible situation to be in. Original story here:
JOURNEY 3D - Unpaid, Digital FX artists seek back pay of $1 million from Discovery Communications and Evergreen Films
For Immediate Release
HOLLYWOOD, Calif./EWORLDWIRE/July 9, 2008 — When Journey To The Center Of The Earth Movie 3D, the blockbuster and ground-breaking 3-D stereoscopic film starring Brendan Fraser, is released Friday, July 11, a group of digital effects artists from former Meteor Studios who worked on the film will continue a half-year later to wonder where their paychecks are.According to David Rand, special effects artists worked for Meteor Studios, a company established by Discovery Communications of Virginia (Discovery) (owners of the Discovery Channel) and Evergreen Films of Pacific Palisades (Evergreen). During October, November and December of 2007, artists worked without pay; some put in 100-hour weeks and stayed loyal to the project with the promise of pay as soon as the accounting glitch was fixed. Most of the artists who applied their talents to the creation of the film have families, and half are American freelance artists like Rand, whose hope for a bright Christmas was extinguished when all artists were laid off without pay in December upon delivery of the film.
Over $1 million is due from Discovery Communications of Virginia and Evergreen Films of Pacific Palisades.
Dave Rand’s is particularly vocal about, what he calls an injustice, because accordding to Rand, he was asked to keep his crew working without pay.”A million dollars is not money - money is what you take to the supermarket to buy some bananas. A million dollars is power, and it shows a company’s true character. Being a family-oriented network, Meteor, Discovery and Evergreen should be ashamed of themselves.”
PSST’er Rex Crowle just finished an ambitious 10-part animated series for QOOB, Grip Wrench. It’s awesome! Explodingly awesome. Here’s a synopsis from QOOB:
“Grip Wrench è un veterano del Vietnam che, rientrato in patria dopo aver servito con coraggio il suo Paese, si è re-inventato stuntman di grido a Hollywood.
Tutti lo vogliono, tutti lo cercano. Se c’è un blockbuster movie d’azione in produzione, Grip è ‘the man’.
Peccato che il nostro, ogni volta che si trova nel mezzo del suo stunt, venga risucchiato da un passato oscuro, fatto di vite spezzate e sangue versato. Troppo. Troppo per poter vivere tutti felici e contenti…”
Which basically means, it’s pretty damn good.
Check out the Rexbox Blog over here.
PSST’er Nessim Higson is involved in a lot of things, one of which is the music blog: Yes Yes Y’all. Besides having a great name (Who’s got he vibe, it’s the tribe y’all ..) they’ve got tons of great new music and podcast mixes up there. Check it check it check it out.
Pretty exciting to have kids like Brien and Jayson of Royale up in the mix for PSST! Check out their new (and first!) reel. It’s quite tasty. (sighted over at Motionographer, of course.)
PSST’er Tomás Peña aka Espaun 256 has updated his site and has a great reel and pdf portfolio. Beautiful.
Starting Monday July 7th, the Advanced Beauty video podcast series is starting, releasing one film a week into the Fall. Robert Seidel’s film (pictured above) kicks off the series, and the full DVD of all 18 films is expected in Winter of 2008. PSST’ers Tomas Garcia and Mate Steinforth are both represented in Advanced Beauty, curated by Matt Pyke of Universal Everything.
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