In this episode, I talk to Mike Seymour, an Emmy nominated visual-effects artist and one of the founders of fxguide. Mike talks about some key traits of a good visual-effects artist, how tax-rebates and celebrities affect the  industry, and how to live a balanced life while pursuing a competitive career. We also talk about the new term at fxphd and why training at fxphd is more advanced than anything that I experienced in film school.

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Related Things

• fxguide
• fxphd: If you sign up for a full term, would you consider using nsavides as your referring member? In that case I get a free class!
• Mike does a couple of podcasts, including fxguidetv, the vfx show, and the rc (one of my favorite podcasts on digital cinematography)
• The Moonbot Studio interview on The nsavides Podcast: Toward the end of the interview, one of the company founders talks about how Louisiana’s tax rebates helped their company survive.
• Mike’s detailed write up and some video demos of Maya’s Bifrost
• “If I don’t put a visual effects shop out of business, I’m not doing my job” story on Variety 

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