Drinking from a fire-hydrant the ups and downs of life as a compositor with Josh Parks | TVAP EP37

The VFX Artists Podcast

This week we catch up with Senior Compositor and trainer, Josh Parks for a lively discussion of all things tech, industry and career related.
Starting out as "The wildcard choice" for MPC's training program, he has built an impressive career with credits including: Jungle Book, Transformers: The Last Knight, Ready Player One, Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy, Lovecraft Country, Stranger Things and much more
We also talk about Josh's training materials and how building this from early in his journey in VFX has not only helped other artists, but also helped himself to grow as a compositor.
We also discuss Unreal, volume, machine learning and the future of the industry so you will want to check this one out!
00:00:05 : Introductions
00:04:33 : Machine learning and the black box
00:09:04 : The Mailing List
00:11:41 : How creating learning materials can help the creator
00:13:04 : Keying and Dan's worst interview ever
00:18:48 : Josh's route into the industry
00:22:15 : The ups and downs of life as a comper
00:37:18 : Ownership of art and Caravaggio getting client notes
00:51:00 : Unreal in Nuke
00:57:34 : CompositingPro.com
01:07:12 : Outro and a bit of industry history
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Fejezetek

1. Introductions (00:00:00)

2. Machine learning and the black box (00:04:33)

3. The Mailing List (00:09:04)

4. How creating learning materials can help the creator (00:11:41)

5. Keying and Dan's worst interview ever (00:13:04)

6. Josh's route into the industry (00:18:48)

7. The ups and downs of life as a comper (00:22:15)

8. Ownership of art and Caravaggio getting client notes (00:37:18)

9. Unreal in Nuke (00:51:00)

10. CompositingPro.com (00:57:34)

11. Outro and a bit of industry history (01:07:12)