Visual Effects and Animation Industry Goes 2.0 by Rethinking Talent Acquisition
The digital entertainment industry witnesses the launch of the fastest growing professional network for visual effects artists and animators called vfxConnection.com. More than 6,000 artists from 65 countries have already joined this community to increase their visibility while companies are jumping on board to utilize this free resource that aids their recruiting process.
Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) May 13, 2009 -- vfxConnection.com has launched as the fastest growing professional network for digital artists, rethinking the way talent acquisition happens in digital post-production and animation. Sliding in between the success of Facebook and LinkedIn, vfxConnection.com is a niche hybrid of the two: more professional than Facebook with more features than LinkedIn. Digital artists and producers are able to utilize the best of these two worlds on vfxConnection.com to bolster colleague relationships for more candid and global communication, increased visibility and to obtain work.
Home to more than 6,000 animators & visual effects artists.
More than 6,000 artists from 65 countries have established personalized accounts to take advantage of vfxConnection.com's innovative features. It is solving a major issue of talent acquisition that artists and companies have faced until now: the daunting task of mailing out and cataloging artist showreels which eventually end up collecting dust in a company's outdated reel library. vfxConnection.com provides a more streamlined alternative, essentially becoming a shared artist showreel library that updates itself. As a free centralized database it is a robust and accessible way for artists and companies to connect. The transparency of vfxConnection.com strengthens this artist-company relationship and reveals itself in two major ways: through the specific data a member is able to post and the endorsement system. A hiring company can easily search members' skillsets, years of experience, availability and rate to find just the qualified candidate they need. Through colleague endorsements, a member's quality of work is tracked through his or her career. These elements are vital for employers looking to hire and also acts as a sounding board for fellow digital artists.
vfxConnection.com's members are also taking advantage of the site as a platform to expand their conversations outside of the lunch break and meeting room. Polls, video feeds, forums, articles, and blogs make it possible to get a legitimate pulse on the digital post-production and animation industry from the inside-out. It provides a strong feedback loop on best practices for companies like Zoic (LA), Escape Studios (London), and Animal Logic (Sydney). Member, Director and VFX Supervisor, Steve Marino, would agree. Marino writes in one of the forums, "I was the first one to say 'I am only going to use Linkedin, and that's it.' …but vfxConnection is the only 'networking relationship builder' that deals specifically with the post production artists we work with in our industry. I've gotten in touch with peers I haven't heard from in years, checked out forums/blogs and read some pretty informative info that ONLY happens here, not on the others... I have found vfxConnection to be a wealth of collaborative information..."
Collaborative is the key word here, the benchmark of Web 2.0. vfxConnection.com is tapping into the power of this online migration. Talent acquisition is just the tip of the iceberg. Marcus LeVere, Vice President of Business Development for vfxConnection.com, explains that, "The power of professional communites and peer-review is paving the way for Massively Distributed Collaboration in our industry. These seemingly simple concepts are starting to revolutionize how we do business. Imagine eight hundred roto artists from around the world forming an online team and peer-reviewing their work. The prospect of doing work collaboratively like that is just immense. The Mass Animation project on Facebook and vfxConnection.com are just the beginning. Artists and producers are clever enough to self organize and these applications empowers them to grow creatively." While it's a bit early to tell, LeVere's prediction might very well come to pass as vfxConnection.com grows and the economy forces us to think more and more out of the box. Other similar online communities have emerged in the last few years including Smooth Devil (smoothdevil.com), VFX Recruit (vfx-recruit.com) and CG Hub (cghub.com) demonstrating a definite trend in the vfx industry towards Web 2.0.
For additional information on talent acquisition, peer review, mass collaboration, or any other interests in Web 2.0 for digital artists, contact Marcus LeVere via his member page: http://www.vfxconnection.com/Marcus.
About vfxConnection.com:
vfxConnection.com reaches the heart of the animation and visual effects communities as the largest social network and most active industry database. Digital artists of all multimedia disciplines come together with their peers, universities, software companies, animation and post-production houses to source jobs, post project bids, make referrals and share valuable industry information.
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