fxguide attended Siggraph Asia and caught up with Brian Green of Pixar (California). Brian has the unique distinction of being the character supervisor of the “most successful animated movie of all time” twice. The Academy Award-winning feature “Finding Nemo” broke all box office records in 2003, and “Toy Story 3” broke box office records in 2010. He was also character supervisor on The Oscar-winning feature “Ratatouille”. He joined Pixar in 1997, after watching “Toy Story” and loving the film. His first assignment was “A Bug’s Life” (modeling, rigging, shading, and lighting), and later he worked on “Monsters Inc.” as character lead. Before Pixar, he worked at Animal Logic, where he created advertising, effects, and animation. He has several patents related to his work.
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http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f265300/265397.htm
Any follow-up on this antitrust case with officials at Pixar and Lucasfilm would be welcome and useful to the VFX community don’t you think? Perhaps you could ask Catmull, Lasseter, and Lucas for official on the record comments? This is quite an important story and it would be disappointing if fxguide buried it’s head in the sand on this.
We have been covering labor issues related to VFX for a long time, long before anyone else – but this is not all we are going to do. I can guarantee you no one will talk to us on the subject from the companies, you know that. If you want daily updates and comments on labor issues I would point you to vfxsoldier and vfxlaw (we have promoted both of them recently), also the animation guild blog (again we have promoted them frequently). They all are doing great work in keeping the discussion alive. We will continue to cover this area as well but not as frequently as they are, or as you may wish.