3 VFX Shots Lead to an Emmy Nomination…

Here’s how it works in Visual Effects – you land an amazing opportunity to do a bunch of shots, and you’re so excited, you gladly take on the work!  Out of all the work, you realize there are 3 shots that will suck up all of your resources and budget, destroy everyone’s morale, and keep you up until 4am every night til that shot is complete.  So what do you do?  You reach out to your buddies and dangle 3 shots in front of them, I mean after all, do you want to work on COSMOS or not?  Suckers.

Well, we were those suckers.  We wanted to work on COSMOS so badly, we didn’t care what got thrown our way!  We were so hungry to work on every CG nerd’s dream project, and we ended up killing those 3 shots.

Those 3 very difficult shots lead to a total of 150 shots, and that effort lead to recognition in the Emmy nomination COSMOS received for Outstanding Visual Effects Work!  Too bad we were up against some dragons…