NEWS & STUFF

May 9, 2020

I am furiuos! You see, I am kind of "famous" for my policy of providing a first layout (sometimes 2 or 3) for free for new customers to find out if we match (that is if I am not participating in an official pitch). As a guy in his mid-fifties I know I am not the right man for every job I am offered. Supercool Motion Graphics stuff is probably not where I am best. Anyway, if I really want a job I will work especially hard at this first free shot and so far that happened to be a fair policy for both sides and there also have been instances where I did not get the job because of that. Anyway, at the end of last year I was presented a job that I really liked and provided two awesome first layouts that were met with great enthusiasm by the producers and then worked hard (a lot of 3D tracking and 3D stuff) on the change requests of the producers for about 5 to 8 days to have a perfect version to present some executive producers. After that presentation I didn't hear anything from the producers for maybe two months, though I wrote once or twice to inquire about it. Now I know, that sometimes such a presentation leads to a huge new round in the editing room, so I am not too surprised about the silence. After two months I contact them again, just to learn that it was decided to go on without me. Wow! I told them that we were way over the free layout period and offer them to pay me what they think would be fair for the 5 to 8 days I spent on the project on their request. Of course I did not hear again from those guys. Bunch of assholes, totally NOT an example of the film industry where I rarely work with more than a verbal agreement. Now I just have to wait for the series to be premiered and sincerely hope they at least did not steal my ideas. Because I simply wouldn't have the energy to do something about it. We'll see ...