Are you a Creative? Then: YOU ARE A BUSINESS!
My name is Allan McKay. As a creative, my ultimate goal is to eliminate the "starving artist" mentality that so many of us have. To not use the "struggle" as an excuse, and instead embrace that we are running a business. We are in this for the win! We have to give it everything we've got to make it in this world -- and in our careers.
I've been working in Hollywood in Visual Effects for over 20 years and I've had many successes. But my biggest success is watching the growth the students in my mentorship and in my courses have; the people that email me saying they've landed their dream job or negotiated the pay they deserve. Or, they've negotiated to work from home, launched a business -- all of the amazing things they do. All the amazing things YOU DO!
I'm eager to build a KZread Channel to share the content previously only available to those in my students and inner circle. I always say: You gotta be in it to win it!
LET'S LEVEL UP!
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Not going to see this film, the original beats everything.
@@drsjamesserra this is the original :)
Thank you. Loved the conversation.
teaching is incredibly rewarding, in my experience, it made me learn and re learn things, make many friends with my students, and there's also something therapeutic about having a good class
Hey thanks for the great tutorial. I know this is 5 years later or whatever but do you have the free vfx course somewhere? When I go to the link provided im running into a "click funnels" banner that prevents me from looking at your site. its there, but cant do anything except click "learn more" which brings you out to click funnels website.
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I really like Mr. Ball, he seems so down-to-earth, forthright and friendly. I'm a big fan of his work on TMR, too. They're really, really good films and, actually, quite deep.
The only thing that matters is who is the most skilled/talented/resourceful/knowledgeable/hardworking/experienced/etc. In other words: MERIT. Everything else is just people pretending for the sake of 'THE MESSAGE'. This is cult behaviour and mentality, and it is disastrous for the future success of the western world. People keep going on about why we have to force 'diversity' into everything, but they can never tell you WHY?
I know bosslogic from his terrible art.
First of all, thank you for this tutorial. i tryed to view the vfxcourse but i can't pass the clickfunnels popup.
I never noticed the limitations these movies worked with that are only apparent frame by frame with a very critical eye. So much wizardry and foundational stuff to make something we take for granted now. It still holds up.
How is that the same person from the behind the scenes Matrix documentaries? He looks so different. Wow. This is maybe going to sound a bit mean, and I swear I don’t intend it that way, but I thought due to the feminine name and his disposition at the time that Kim, circa 1999-2003 was a more masculinish female. In the BTS Matrix stuff He had a super high voice with a more cherub like appearance. Then I read the Cinefex article on the Matrix movies & was like no, no Kim is a guy. And now here he is, 20+ years later and his hair is like waaaaaaay different, his voice waaay deeper, some good ol stubble. I couldn’t believe it was the same person. Time is a crazy thing
Hello everyone, I want to start learning VFX using, Unreal / Houdini could anyone recommend me the MUST KNOW tutorials that I should take to start with? I'm a little lost on where to start
Awesome video!!! Starting uni this year and I’m interested in this career option - do you think I can become a TD with a comp sci degree if I work on vfx and animation on the side?
Carmack was 90 percent of id software
Excited to listen to this one!
Reupload?
@@Luckyj714 I don’t think so I think this is from our second interview we did (I’m a bit out of the loop with the short videos, I don’t manage them (but I’m editing the next podcast right hire which will be out in a few hours!)
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I had been a generalist the whole my career, starting from year 1999. I started from 3ds Max version 1.0 and I am still a 3ds Max 2024 user. 🙂I just add additional tools to my workflow from time to time but the main software is 3ds Max.
Very insightful. Great interview.
thankyouu
Great interview bud, Im so pumped to get to work on my film series.... letsssgooo
Let goooooo! Keep me in the loop can’t wait to see it!
Great discussion. The next wave of storytellers will be a lot more used to the tools, and take advantage of the tools, but it does come back to working with a great team, and passionate people. While the tools and tech are amazing, it is the people, their connection and skill that is the heart of storytelling. Awesome. Thanks Allan and Kim
Man I agree. The thing that really bothers us is the emotional pain we take. some people are hard as rocks but the majority isn't and whenever they get discomfort they cry, yell or quit in rage. Pretty sure if you take away the emotional pain from a person they would be crazy enough try again and again to until they succeed.
How to get a job at Blizzard? My answer is.. DON'T. 🚫💀 Microsoft will end up letting you go.
It happened the same to me. When I was in my 20's, I just looked at my belly button. It was all about me, my professional development and my ambitions. Once I reached my 30's and beyond, suddenly the most important thing was my nephew, watch him grow and having memories together. My partner, my friends, my family... It's cold out there. It suddenly becomes so hard to be sorounded by people who actually don't know me and that naturally don't care about me. Every day. On a city or country where I don't know anyone. And to think that the studios ask that from me: just move from one place to another. I can't do that anymore. So remote work becomes the only reason why I'm still working on this industry. Everyone is different though.
Great clip. Didn't know you were up in Portland now Allan. Hope you're enjoying the PNW.
Cheers! Yeah moved up few years back love it up here, but looks like I’ll likely be moving back down later this year. Which I’m happy and sad about haha. Where are you located?
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Networking and self promotion are really important. No one can hire you if they don't know you exist.
Well said Mario!
in my case, my professor in 3D animation course not only gave advice outside classes, he also recommended me for my first gig as an animator, that opened up my career in a good footing
That’s awesome!
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As someone who has been a fan of Wes Ball for a long time but is only just seeing this after dropping out of film school due to a disability and financial problems, this is INCREDIBLY inspiring. I've been struggling with wondering if I'll ever be able to go into film or make my own films, but hearing from my favorite director that its OKAY to fail just like... turns my doomsday perspective on its head. Thank you for posting this.
I made a video you can search for it but it’s called 20 years of failure or something like that. Might be worth checking out. I was excited to give this talk because we all think everyone else had it easy and that first job was easy. But there’s constant failure and rejection until there isn’t. Just we never get to see that from other people so we think it’s just us that is going through it. It’s definitely ok to fail, it’s part of the process. But sticking with it is everything. Thank you for sharing, actually planning to reach out to Wes about doing another episode now apes is out!
i don't know, but getting a job nowadays its like winning a lottery either you get it or you don't ... its not about how good you are but its all about the company choices
suit is too photoreal...You know what render engine they used back then?
It was renderman and Brazil (3dsmax) (ILM and orphanage) the Mach 1 suit was mental ray Ben Snow, who I had on the podcast headed up all of the metal research with renderman for the first film
after watching the movie in 4k, theres a few vfx scenes that still held up.
The debt some of these students carry in the US is outrageous. There are definite benefits to school but self learning and good online mentorships can be lot cheaper.
I am one of your followers from Saudi Arabia. I really love your content very much. Keep providing great content ❤👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you so much my friend I’m honored
hey @AllanMcKay i have a basic knowledge of the basic softwares like after effects, premier pro etc but how can i learn latest softwares because if i wanna learn and goes to the company to learn and company requirement will be like "Hey, first learn and then come here for job ". I am so confused what should i do.
hi the website didn't work to see and download the courses
Disappointing to se you using AI for your Thumbs ma man not gonna lie.
You know all about stealing don’t you Brendan? This guy charged me $9600 dollars for a broken spreadsheet then blocked me on all social media platforms.
Thanks for putting out this valuable content/context. Very insightful.
I would like to do this but I'm not in the United States, nor in a first world country, all I have are my savings, 20k usd, and my basic to mid knowledge in English and my wish, is it still possible to me?
Wes seems like a really chill and nice guy!
Yeah great guy! Hoping to get him back on to talk planet of the apes soon!
@@AllanMcKay that would be super cool! I’m really excited to watch the new apes film.
John romero seems like such a cool down to earth guy.
If you’re not a reliable or capable artist, you’ll rarely get connections or collab opportunities. Get better and put ur work out there! Try to be easy to work with too, communicate!
Being easy to work with is everything, I can’t stress that one enough. I do think it’s worth trying to get people to take you under their wing whether you’re amazing yet or not, you’re bound to get a lot of no’s before a yes, but it’s going to make a big impact on your career. But you’re absolutely right, nurture your talent as your primary focus Thanks Kurokishizx!
Great video
Id spend sometime getting familiar with basic scripting and coding mindset... Itll make you a better problen solver and give u an edge...
I see no negative downsides to learning to code. I don’t think it’s make or break that you learn to code but it opens up so many doors, and as you said there’s loads of benefits to learning to architect programs
22:53 to achieve the edge; the whole shot could be blue sky and graded. The background looks like a matte painting there was extensive roto on this though. My colleague did the cornfield, said he would go to sleep and just see corn for months. Good video.
Hi Allan! What is the title of the music at the beginning? Thanks