Comments on: What Should Scott Ross Do?

By: Scott Ross

Scott Ross — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:55:17 +0000

hey sucker…. I hope I am the “Devil”… because I don’t swim very well!

By: one born every minute

one born every minute — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:48:32 +0000

well, at least scott ross makes me laugh more now than when i worked for him.

ross and textor, the devil and the deep blue sea, teaming up. what could possibly go wrong?

watch your backs artists, and remember, a kind word and a knife always gets more than a kind word.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:17:52 +0000

@ scott
thats interesting the costs going up by employees moving to sony.

if the employees now know that wages are subsidied are theyalso at fault for allowing subsidies to work? the studios/vfx facilities know htat the workforce is very flexible. willing to move.

By: Scott Ross

Scott Ross — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:59:44 +0000

vfxaveragedude…
The old Sony… the one that single handedly increased the cost of doing VFX in the 90′s while at the same time the same studio was bitching about how expensive VFX were, that Sony?

All I know is that at the time they were flush w Japanese yen, were spending money like drunken samurai’s and would do almost anything to leverage SPI as a major visual effects studio. They increased wages significantly and offered the world to their employees because they had a ton of money and an agenda that while not viable, was, if one had the deep pockets… buyable.

I’m not sure of the status of Sony’s SPI today. I made a comment last year that drew ire from SPI’s exec team. To me, SPI looked like it was trying to shutter its doors for years. After my comments at the SMPTE conference, I was contacted by their management and told that SPI was healthy and mos def not closing or for sale.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:21:30 +0000

Hopefully we won’t discover aliens on distant planets, these companies would otherwise think of outsourcing in outer space…

I’m emailing JetLab right now asking them to stop looking!

By: Scott Ross

Scott Ross — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:48:15 +0000

great start…. now we need 5 more major facilities…. ILM, WETA, R&H, D Neg, The Mill, PF, Pixelmondo, Framestore, MPC….

By: Scott Ross

Scott Ross — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:52:30 +0000

we will need to reach out to the heads of other vfx facilities… do a press release….. etc..

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:31:58 +0000

@ jonavark
“There really is no way to stop it. Unions won’t. TA’s won’t. It is a natural leveling of global personal income. Band-Aids will slow it down but that’s all.”

actually look up what drives the chinese economy. its know as neo-mercantilist economy. as the uk, us, japan etc had this before i think.. its a stage of economic development that just does not continue forever.

interesting points is the low exhange rate that acts as a tax on consumption and help exports. effectivly a subsidy . state support of industry- all the owners of major indsutrial sectors are from the governemtn.

there is no natural balancing of global incomes and it most definatlye will stop as it has in other countrues.

By: Digital Domain CEO John Textor Supports VFX Trade Org « VFX Soldier

Digital Domain CEO John Textor Supports VFX Trade Org « VFX Soldier — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:31:47 +0000

[...] ILM General Manager and Digital Domain Founder Scott Ross made an announcement tonight on my last post: Today John Textor, DDMG’s Chairman and CEO, stated publicly that Digital Domain will support an [...]

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 04:37:00 +0000

@scott
“china have more cash than ever before.”

why this has no real meaning. in todays finacial times. lookout for the words ponzi, capital flight, econmic growth.

‘Fund file: why China’s cash pile is not enough’

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/08/05/fund-file-why-chinas-cash-pile-is-not-enough/#axzz22gCpCmxt