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轉貼一下這篇文章好了 因為R&H倒閉的時候 巨匠電腦還在做模範廣告
稱某某人考到R&H的證明 可以做3D動畫的工作之類的...底下就有人酸都倒了 XDDDD
後來聽朋友說 高雄那間薪水22K (感覺好薪酸)

Dear Mr. Lee,
親愛的李安先生

When asked about the bankruptcy of Rhythm + Hues, the visual effects house
largely responsible for making your film “life of Pi” as incredible as it
was, you said:

特效公司R&H在你的電影"少年Pi的奇幻漂流"中肩負重任，製作了令人讚嘆的影像，但是
當你被問到關於"R&H倒閉"的看法時，你卻表示：

“I would like it to be cheaper and not a tough business [for VFX vendors]. It
’s easy for me to say, but it’s very tough. It’s very hard for them to
make money. The research and development is so expensive; that is a big
burden for every house. They all have good times and hard times, and in the
tough times, some may not [survive].”



I just want to point out that while, yes R&D can be expensive and yes it
takes a lot of technology and computing power to create films like yours, it
is not computer chips and hard drives that are costing you so very much
money.  It is the artists that are helping you create your film.



So when you say  “I would like it to be cheaper,” as an artist I take that
personally.   It took hundreds of hours from skilled artists and hard-working
coordinators and producers to craft the environments and performances in life
of Pi.  Not to mention the engineers that wrote all of that proprietary code
and build the R+H pipeline.  That is where your money went.  I’d say,
judging from the night you just had, you got one hell of a deal.




Incidentally, those were the same gorgeous sunsets and vistas that your DP
Claudio Miranda took credit for without so much as a word of thanks to those
artists.  And the same animated performances that helped win you the best
director statue.  Nice of you to mentionthe pool crew, but maybe you could
have thanked the guys and gals who turned that pool in to an ocean and put a
tiger in to that boat?



It was world class work, after all.  And after a fabulously insulting and
dismissive introduction from the cast of the avengers, at least two of whom
spent fully half of their film as a digitally animated character, R+H won for
it’s work on your very fine piece of cinema.  And just as the bankruptcy was
about to be acknowledged on a nationally-televised platform, the speech was
cut short.  By the Jaws theme.



If this was meant as a joke, we artists are not laughing.

假如這只是個玩笑，那我們藝術家沒有人笑得出來。


Mr. Lee, I do believe that you are a thoughtful and brilliant man. And a
gifted filmmaker.  But I also believe that you and everyone in your tier of
our business is fabulously ignorant to the pain and turmoil you are putting
artists through.  Our employers scramble to chase illegal film subsidies
across the globe at the behest of the film studios.  Those same subsidies
raise overhead, distort the market, and cause wage stagnation in what are
already trying economic times.  Your VFX are already cheaper than they should
be.  It is disheartening to see how blissfully unaware of this fact you truly
are.



By all accounts, R+H is a fantastic place to work; a truly great group of
people who treat their employees with fairness and respect.  Much like Zoic
Studios, the fabulous company that I am proud to work for.  But I am
beginning to wonder if these examples of decency will be able to survive in
such a hostile environment.  Or if the horror stories of unpaid overtime and
illegal employment practices will become the norm, all because you and your
fellow filmmakers “would like it to be cheaper.”



I for one won’t stand for it.  Please join me.

我無法接受這樣的事，假如你也認同的話，請加入我們。

Warmest regards and congratulations,
Phillip Broste
Lead Compositor

獻上我最誠摯的恭喜與關懷

Zoic Studios 特效指導
Phillip Broste

http://ppt.cc/Fus7

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