The Allan McKay Podcast
002 - Interview with Carlos Anguiano part 1

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Allan McKay is a visual effects supervisor and technical director and high profile mentor in Hollywood working in 3D, both in video-games, feature films and tv commercials. Allan works with many of the leading visual effects and 3D animation studios and speaks at Autodesk University, SIGGRAPH and various conferences worldwide!

All interviews Carlos Anguiano, a Character and Pipeline Technical Director working for many studios including Industrial Light + Magic, Disney, Rhythm & Hues, Pixomondo, Scanline, Blur studio. Carlos is the creator of Mango pipeline platform which has been a huge success among many leading visual effects studios worldwide, and we discuss in this episode about his career working with many of the top studios on various major film productions. Lots of fun and very insightful!

 

This covers many great subjects both from starting out to delving more into the technical aspects of visual effects. If you are intersted in scripting or becoming a technical director I highly advise this episode, but for everyone else, discussing many of the films and studios Carlos has worked at as well as Toy Story and many other great subjects, I guarantee this will be a great episode for you to listen to and gain a lot from!

Direct download: AMP_ep2_los.mp3
Category:careers -- posted at: 2:50am EDT

001 - Mastering your freelance career

For the latest episodes visit http://www.allanmckay.com

Allan McKay is a visual effects supervisor and technical director and high profile mentor in Hollywood working in 3D, both in video-games, feature films and tv commercials. Allan works with many of the leading visual effects and 3D animation studios and speaks at Autodesk University, SIGGRAPH and various conferences worldwide!


Join Allan McKay as we discuss taking your freelance career in 3D visual effects to the next level! Breaking into freelance, negotiating travel, higher salary, getting contracts and carefully coordinating your career to maximize your success! Whether you use Maya, 3DS Max, Houdini, Photoshop or you freelance as a producer!

When you are done you will have a whole new world of understanding of tricks and hacks to master your freelance career!

Direct download: AMP_episode1_Freelance.mp3
Category:careers -- posted at: 11:00pm EDT

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