{"id":8986,"date":"2018-03-06T23:15:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2018-03-06T23:15:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:15:20","slug":"for-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2018\/03\/06\/for-the-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"For the boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to hear about the surprisingly robust approach taken by the French when training their new VFX talent&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[our] French counterparts [who run university VFX degrees, teach on] courses four or five years long, and cull students from the course who don\u2019t meet the quality expected.&#8221; (Tom Box, interviewed in the latest edition of 3D World magazine)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the UK it&#8217;s overwhelmingly a three-year degree. Although there tend to be a lot of first-year drop-outs, the duffers who remain on the course after that tend to be tolerated right through to graduation. They&#8217;re too often graduated as well, at management insistence, if only with a 3rd class degree. In France, it seems, the teachers have more control and thus a degree course&#8217;s reputation trumps the income from a student&#8217;s fees \/ the university&#8217;s student retention-rate statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to hear about the surprisingly robust approach taken by the French when training their new VFX talent&#8230; &#8220;[our] French counterparts [who run university VFX degrees, teach on] courses four or five years long, and cull students from the course who don\u2019t meet the quality expected.&#8221; (Tom Box, interviewed in the latest edition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news","category-the-animation-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}