Film Review: ‘Nomadland’: Destitute Elders in Vans in America’s Badlands Fern (Frances McDormand) is a “houseless” nomad, in “Nomadland.” (Searchlight Pictures/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
It’s got most critics out of their minds with happiness, but I had a hard time with it. It may be the most depressing thing I’ve seen in the last five years. What else should one feel about the subject matter? You’ve got elderly Americans forced out of secure lives by fate and into cruel states of Steinbeckian migrant survival, working the most menial jobs imaginable.
You’ve got your truck-stop toilet cleaning, sugar beet harvesting, and monotonous assembly-line-type Amazon factory jobs (the employers knowingly prey on the elderly), with no relief in sight. They live in vans that can easily break down in desolate stretches of nowhere, using five-gallon plastic containers as toilets. There needs to be a follow-up movie that depicts those for whom nomad life is, prim
How To Improve Your 3D Workflow: 5 Tips From An Escape Studios Tutor
Making good 3d animation isn’t just a case of mastering the right 3d software package. While knowing your way around Maya or Blender will help, creating a believable and watchable animated story is about so much more than technical skill.
A lot of the groundwork for creating a great work of 3d animation takes place away from the software, and even away from your screen. Amedeo Beretta, a professional tv and film animator and Escape Studios tutor, knows this well: he has extensive industry experience, having worked for the likes of DNEG, Scanline VFX, and Ilion Animation Studios on films including
Amazon Studios Hires Greg Coleman as Global Head of Franchise Marketing
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Amazon Studios has brought on board Greg Coleman as its global head of franchise marketing, where he will be tasked with overseeing the team in charge of TV and film fantasy and sci-fi originals including the upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series.
In leading Amazon’s genre-focused marketing, Coleman and his team will look to engage mass audiences across the world via the streaming studio’s marketing campaigns and support global expansion of the fantasy and sci-fi brands in its portfolio.
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