[Tig] career path

[Christopher Stack]

hi all,

per rob's suggestion im polling this group for advice...

im the data-manager/colorist for a vfx house in santa monica, ca.  my
entire experience has been at one company - i started out as data
manager four years ago and assumed the colorist duties two years ago
when the contract colorist left.  all our work as been on features.

i'd like to pursue a career as a colorist. unfortunately all my color
work is done with shake.  although im able to achieve great results, i
don't have experience working on any of the industry platforms and i
have very little knowledge of the di or colorist industry, only
tangentially as it impacts us in vfx.

so my question to the group is: what should be my next step?  are
there colorist-assistant positions? or are there di facilities willing
to take on a talented and hard-working individual to train them?  is
there anywhere to get time on an industry standard color platform?  i
have access to apple's color and iridas' speedgrade and have begun
exploring them.

any advice or information is greatly appreciated!

cheers
christopher

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