Initial recommendations focus on improving business and financial management acumen among artists and facilities management through training programs and new standards and practices.
Co-authored by ETC@USC executive director and CEO Ken Williams (and co-founder of Sony Pictures Imageworks), and Carl Rosendahl, former president of PDI/Dreamworks and associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, the VES findings are the result of a rigorous process, which incorporated input from more than three dozen industry representatives including artists, studio, business and labor leaders and facility executives, whose companies have operations in eight countries and 15 cities around the world, as well as data from several online surveys and published works.
Read the full story here: http://www.etcentric.org/ves-publishes-analysis-the-state-of-the-global-vfx-industry/
Read the white paper here: http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/The-State-of-the-Global-VFX-Industry-2013