Episode 6: We continue our journey into our Hollywood destinies  while Sean tries to recall all the times he's been fired. Meanwhile, Efram just chooses to win his way into your television.

* Sean got fired from True Lies…

* …And the Playboy News

* Richard Jeni

* …and Starbucks

* Photoshop leads to a photo restoration job at A and I

* Which leads to performing color correction at Foundation Imaging

* Sherry Hitch

* Charlie White

* Efram starts at Project Greenlight, Season 2 (2003)

* He wanted to create CG bugs for his short

* Learned Maya via DVD lessons from Gnomon

* Giant bug short: Insex

* A generic definition for Maquette. Not to be confused with Chris Marquette, star of…

* …the giant bug movie is “Infestation” aka “Big Bugs Panic” in Japan, which we always get a kick out of

* Shout outs to Dilated Pixels, a VFX and Production company in Hollywood

* Infestation, the first project from Dilated Pixels, received a VES Nomination for “Best VFX In a Miniseries or Special”. Not too shabby

* And the award we didn't get: that shiny thing in the middle of the page

* Sony Imageworks, now headquartered in Vancouver, Canada

* Dreamwork's Animation; still American

* Situations we often run into while “in the muck”

* Inheriting or taking over a project and trying to decipher what is going on and how to finish it off

* Usually not possible to start from the existing assets and solve the issues

* 5k RED footage

* Pipelines!

* Every studio does it their own way and with their own choice of software and how it interoperates

* Have your own contingency plan

* Every size project needs artist orientation

* Kevin Geiger's FMX/08 YouTube video (there are many parts to this presentation)

* Life of a Shot with Jeff Scheetz, founder of the DAVE School. Now leading Monkey Chow Productions

* Working on Roughnecks (IMDb)

* Diversions

* Efram has just seen Tim's Vermeer

* Tim Jenison of Newtek

* PJ likes his HBO Now, now! now!

* Sean brings up a tear-jerking and profound episode of Radio Lab<...