Funny. We always hear about companies claiming they cannot find ICE artists, but I live near LA and don't see or hear about the job postings. To the best of my knowledge there are 3 video game developers within a 10 mile radius of me using Softimage. Outside of that, I know of no one using Softimage for more than the occasional side job with/without ICE. Obviously there's a disconnect in communications.
So what is the nature of the ICE work? Is it strictly particle stuff? If that's the case it would explain why there's a shortage of talent as Softimage isn't particularly known for it's VFX....until recently. Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gene Crucean Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 11:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: strands-heavy commercial gig, LA area ... point being, a possible reason it's hard to find Soft artists around here is that they are already booked. Sorry, I don't think I made that clear in my last email. On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Gene Crucean <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The problem is that if you are a Soft user in the LA area... you are almost guaranteed work because there are soo few of us here. I'm pretty much booked for 2 years. It's nice not being a dime a dozen Maya artist :) On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Andy Moorer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi gang... ANOTHER strands-based VFX gig, a good studio with a Nike commercial (or several actually) in the LA area needs ICE guys. About 5 weeks in January. Anyone out there, looking? Remote is a possibility. Reasonably complex stuff, you'll need to be comfortable with custom ICE dev and strands in particular. This is a particularly nice project and I'll probably sign on myself, but it'll need a couple of guys at least. I'm getting so much call for ICE freelancers in the LA area, as well as New York.... it's not funny. I seem to have ended up on some critical mass of rolodexes, and I'm turning down work every week. Worse, most of these studios end up giving up on using ICE simply for lack of people. So if you're in these areas, or if you do remote contracts, contact me, please! There's more work here than people available by a wide margin... I hate not even having names to give clients, and to have to suggest they shift to houdini just so they can fill seats. -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** Freelance for hire ** www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com> ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com/> for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~ -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** Freelance for hire ** www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com> ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com<http://www.genecrucean.com/> for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~
