This is getting out of hand, and given that the VFX industry is currently in a protest over the Oscars fiasco, I have to speak up on behalf of my VFX brothers and sisters.
As someone who has worked in film VFX (I can get mod verified, if that adds weight to this?), here are a few points to consider:
By the time outsourcing gets outsourced and gets even more outsourced after that, as many as a dozen or more VFX studios might touch a project. In fact, some of my ex-colleagues worked at one of the studios that did work on Dark Water. If Invisible Light Agency had anything to do with Dark Water, it’s because they bid cheaply on it, and that’s all there is to it.
There is nothing inherently fishy about the title “Invisible Light Agency” or a VFX company being in a seedy neighbourhood – both are kind of the status quo. Read up on the sorry situation of the VFX industry in California, and you'll immediately understand why these companies have to sound as dazzling as possible, have to exist as cheaply as possible, and the turnover is so ridiculously high. I can link to some articles if it will help get this point across, but I feel like this thread isn't the place for it.
Film VFX are a brutally overworked/unappreciated job, and it’s very common for workers to move onto stuff that pays better (including government work), so there’s nothing suspicious about a guy from a studio going to work for the government. Several of my past colleagues have gone on to government work (including CSIS), and one fellow even went into a private sleuthing company. People burn out and go where the money is to take a break after the breakneck pace of VFX.
It’s possible to draw links between anything you want, if you look hard enough. Heck, let’s draw links between me and Elisa: I’m only 2 degrees removed from Elisa (one of my friends was her friend). I have friends who worked at the studio where Dark Water's VFX were done. I have a friend who has been deployed to S. Korea, and other friends who live there. I posted about that cloaking technology in my own personal social networks. Does that make me a suspicious person? …see what I mean? It really worries me to see people drawing tenuous links between these things, and dragging in innocent people who almost certainly have nothing to do with it.
We all want to solve this mystery, and I can appreciate that, but I have always understood this site to be a place of logic. It frustrates me to see people zeroing in on things that aren't logically connected.
As someone who has worked in film VFX (I can get mod verified, if that adds weight to this?), here are a few points to consider:
By the time outsourcing gets outsourced and gets even more outsourced after that, as many as a dozen or more VFX studios might touch a project. In fact, some of my ex-colleagues worked at one of the studios that did work on Dark Water. If Invisible Light Agency had anything to do with Dark Water, it’s because they bid cheaply on it, and that’s all there is to it.
There is nothing inherently fishy about the title “Invisible Light Agency” or a VFX company being in a seedy neighbourhood – both are kind of the status quo. Read up on the sorry situation of the VFX industry in California, and you'll immediately understand why these companies have to sound as dazzling as possible, have to exist as cheaply as possible, and the turnover is so ridiculously high. I can link to some articles if it will help get this point across, but I feel like this thread isn't the place for it.
Film VFX are a brutally overworked/unappreciated job, and it’s very common for workers to move onto stuff that pays better (including government work), so there’s nothing suspicious about a guy from a studio going to work for the government. Several of my past colleagues have gone on to government work (including CSIS), and one fellow even went into a private sleuthing company. People burn out and go where the money is to take a break after the breakneck pace of VFX.
It’s possible to draw links between anything you want, if you look hard enough. Heck, let’s draw links between me and Elisa: I’m only 2 degrees removed from Elisa (one of my friends was her friend). I have friends who worked at the studio where Dark Water's VFX were done. I have a friend who has been deployed to S. Korea, and other friends who live there. I posted about that cloaking technology in my own personal social networks. Does that make me a suspicious person? …see what I mean? It really worries me to see people drawing tenuous links between these things, and dragging in innocent people who almost certainly have nothing to do with it.
We all want to solve this mystery, and I can appreciate that, but I have always understood this site to be a place of logic. It frustrates me to see people zeroing in on things that aren't logically connected.