WARNER BROTHERS ANIMATION DESK with built in light boards and removable shelves. These classic desks are hard to come by and have been known to sell for $1,000 apiece.
This is a GREAT deal or should we say, STEAL! Buy it quickly as it won’t last at $200.
Dimensions (approximate) 49 inches wide……36 inches width …….48 inches high (including shelves).
White wood. Lots of history….if only these desks could talk.
Thanks for your interest. One more thing….cash only please!
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Time Warner is looking for an intern. Please note you CAN NOT apply here. You MUST apply on Time Warner’s site. Click the link below to find out more.
From their site:
Posting Job Description
SUMMARY OF POSITION
Warner Bros. Entertainment, a fully integrated, broad-based entertainment company, is a global leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing and marketing of all forms of entertainment and their related businesses, across all current and emerging media and platforms. The company stands at the forefront of every aspect of the entertainment industry, from feature films to television, home video/DVD, animation, comic books, interactive entertainment and games, product and brand licensing, international cinemas and broadcasting.
Warner Bros. Entertainment seeks talented and enthusiastic Undergraduate Summer Interns. Warner Bros. offers students exciting opportunities to work in Theatrical, Television, Home Entertainment, Consumer Products and Interactive Entertainment. Interns will work within a department with a defined discipline of either Creative, Marketing, Publicity, Finance, Digital/New Media or Technical Operations. Interns are given entry-level opportunities that will provide a real-life business environment and encourage them to discover their own interests and competencies. Interns are expected to learn and engage in department operations and complete various subject matter-related projects as assigned by their department supervisors.
Interns will have the opportunity to attend studio events & screenings, network with colleagues and executives, and gain valuable work experience in the entertainment industry.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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• Candidates must be enrolled as an undergraduate student in a college or university.
• We seek well-rounded individuals with proven academic excellence and involvement in extracurricular activities.
• General office skills and computer proficiencies in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Internet required.
• Students must have the ability to effectively and tactfully deal with diverse clients and staff on all levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
• Must have the ability to pay close attention to detail and to organize & schedule a heavy workload effectively.
• Must be able to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Must be a self-starter with the ability to see projects through to completion, problem solve, and multi-task under time constraints.
• Proactive nature, professionalism, and confidentiality required.
My buddy Stephen Silver makes a lot of good sense!
Stephen did an interview for us a while back which you can read here.
As you probably have heard unless you are living under a rock there is major grumblings in the US VFX communities about job losses and bankruptcy primarily set off by Rhythm and Hues who declared bankruptcy a few months ago at around the same time that their most recent film Life of Pi was passing it’s 1 billion mark in profits. Many of the artists who worked on that film have been laid off without pay and it seems that it has all finally come to a head. Below is a link to petition President Obama do do something about runaway production in the US.  Click the pic to be taken to the petition site. Currently there are 3700, signatures and a total of 96,303 are needed as you can see.
As Animation Insider is a global site, we can understand that some of our international readers might question why they should care, and I would say regardless of where you live,  you should be paid fairly for your services. No one should be laid off without pay if others have profited billions from their talent. I urge you all to share this petition so that these people can get their fair share and we can stop the visual effects community from being pawns of the studios.
The last sentence really sums it all up:
No matter how successful or efficient our work is, we are ultimately at the mercy of the next government willing to distort prices and put the companies we work for out of business. We want to end the race to the bottom so we can compete on a level playing field and begin the race to the top.
You can find the VFX petition here.
The TV and film industries are launching a broad campaign to educate parents so they can better manage their kids’ media. A response to the widespread call to curb violent behavior, the MPAA, NAB, NCTA, National Assn. of Theater Owners and American Cable Assn. will begin a campaign to distribute information about the ratings system and parental blocking technologies through public service announcements, social media, informational web sites, in-theater messaging and other media. The newly redesigned web site TheTVBoss.org will serve as the nexus for information on ratings, technology and media literacy.
You can read more here.
You may have noticed that Facebook has changed color of late in the form of a green square. That’s been held up as a protest against the unfair treatment of the visual effects artists today. It all came to a head Sunday night when Ang Lee won an Academy Award for best director of Life of Pi. I am told it’s a visually stunning film  and while I have not seen it yet, it doesn’t take a genius to see that the film could not be made without visual effects artists.
Take a look at the example below…
The film wouldn’t be so compelling if it were done in like the first panel would it? Certainly not! Here’s another example. See if you’d prefer to watch the film like the first panel.
Yeah didn’t think so.
Yet studios as a whole do not respect the visual effects artists. Case in point:  Rhythm and Hues, the studio that brought you the award winning effects in Life of Pi, recently filed chapter 11 bankruptcy and laid off a slew of talented artists despite the fact that the film recently passed it’s billion dollar mark in profits. Where’s all that money going? Not in the pockets of the vfx artists who spend day and night in dark rooms staring at screens and getting paid wages that in L.A. are impossible to live on. Add to that te fact that when the film is done they have to start all over looking for another gig that will do exactly the same to them. It’s a sad state of affairs. Sunday night, the visual effects community staged a protest outside the Oscars but it more or less went unnoticed. Small wonder when the networks are either owned outright or caught up with the studios themselves. When Life of Pi won for Best Visual Effects, winner Bill Westenhofer attempted to bring attention to the fact that his company is facing bankruptcy… and was cut off by the theme from Jaws.
It’s sad to think that studios would be so disrespectful of  the hard work that goes into creating the amazing films we see every year. But in truth animators across the world experience this every day. people love what we do and networks could not exist without our talents and yet they cry when we want to be paid a fair wage for our services.
I’m honestly not sure how to remedy it but I for one am sick of it.
You can read about this ongoing visual effects war on The Visual Effects Soldier.
