Hi Everyone!
I'm so glad to have found this platform. I am a TV commercials director and editor with 7+ years experience. After directing 70+ commercials, a feature film and a film for Netflix, I decided to move to Canada and pursue a college degree in Film Production to deepen my knowledge of filmmaking. I just graduated this April and ready to get back to work with renewed energy! nice to see such an enthusiastic film making community here. Hoping to meet a lot of new people, feel free to add me or contact me for any project, thanks!
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Welcome to Stage32 and welcome to Canada!
With major Film hubs in Vancouver and Toronto, and with plenty of incentive tax credits, it's a great place for fledgling Filmmakers to come and get creative. Cheers!
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Welcome, Rahat!
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Congrats on your film school completion! I'd love for you to post about your challenges and victories as you've re-entered the industry. Are you running your own company or providing contractor services? https://www.stage32.com/lounge/directing
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Nice to see a fellow Canadian here, Rahat (I'm just west of Toronto, and recently joined Stage 32 myself). Congrats on your Netflix feature and completing your film production degree. Best of luck in your new ventures in Canada!
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B A Mason Have you successfully applied for any Canadian grants or tax incentives for your projects? I've been planning on looking into whether any of these opportunities would be applicable for my independent educational series for children.
Karen "Kay" Ross I was running my own company back in Bangladesh since 2013 but now in Canada I'm looking to work as a director and/or editor
Michael Moore Hey nice to meet you! nice to see you're in animation I'm trying to learn some motion graphics cuz I always wanted to but never had the time before lol
Rahat Rahman It’s a really exciting time to get started in animation with what has been going on in the real-time rendering market. I’ve recently made the switch from Cinema 4D to the Unreal game engine for much of my animation these days and it’s really revolutionary in terms of workflow, not to mention that the software is completely free with lots of free assets to get you started. Mind you, for motion graphics, you’d probably still want something like C4D for the design stage then export to one of the real-time packages like Unreal or Unity to iterate your texturing, lighting and rendering much more efficiently. There are some great introductory courses in Unreal on Udemy.com if you’re interested in learning about it.
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Michael Moore awesome! well I'm primarily doing 2d stuff in AE (cuz 3d Frightens me as of yet lol) but yeah i've been following some c4d artists and their works look amazing. ah well maybe someday!
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Hi Rahat! It's nice to meet you. Hope you've been enjoying taking the time to get your degree. Definitely happy to talk shop with you soon.
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Nice to meet you.
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Brian Carlin yep! Now that I'm done, I'm all pumped to dive into the industry and start working again! sure would love to talk any time nice to meet you too
Hey Jeffrey nice to meet you man