The VFX Industry And Online Outsourcing

June 14th, 2010 by dbernier

Lately, there seems to be a lot of talk regarding the problems VFX professionals are facing in the industry. Many studios all over the world are being forced to shut down because they cannot remain profitable in their highly competitive market. California has been the poster boy for this problem, but it’s a problem that [...]

Effective Tools For Finding Employment and Boosting Your Online Presence

May 30th, 2010 by dbernier

Having a professional portfolio, a well-designed resume and then making them accessible to hundreds of thousands of possible employers at any time is the winning combination for finding the right job or career. These days there are far too many generic jobs searching websites available on the net. There is a need [...]

Why Business Process Management?

June 25th, 2009 by Benoit Martel

Def: BPM an umbrella term for defining, recording and improving business processes.
01- Is the definition, recording and use of business rules
02- Is a method of gathering management information
03- Is a means of auditing everything a worker does
04- Is a logical progression from automation in the production line to automation in the office
05- Includes the notion [...]

Philosophy of business process

June 11th, 2009 by Benoit Martel

Every company have their own business process. In the media & entertainment industry production companies, postproduction, visual effects studios and sound studios needs tools to manage critical enterprise information with a platform on top of which tools can be built so that business people can used them to manage the complete lifecycle of processes. [...]

TOP 10 M&E Linkedin & Facebook groups

May 31st, 2009 by Benoit Martel

Here’s the top 10 Linkedin & Facebook groups sorted by the number of users. Top 10 Linkedin & Facebook groups.

Montreal VS Toronto

May 10th, 2009 by Benoit Martel

History
Since I’m young the rivalry between Montreal and Toronto have been going on. It’s started a long time ago, actually in 1960. Both Montreal and Toronto where living enormous growth. The population of the cities where growing at a rate around 20% in the 60s and 30% in the 70s. At the time, Montreal [...]

TOP 10 reasons to manage your business process:

May 10th, 2009 by Benoit Martel

01- Informational, capturing process information for purposes of understanding
02- Sequential, changing process sequence, or enabling parallelism
03- Collaborative, allowing participants to manage sets of shared work processes
04-  Tracking, closely monitoring process status and participants
05- Integrative, consolidating and integrating sub-processes and tasks
06- Analytical, improving analysis of information and decision-making across processes
07- Geographical, coordinating processes across distances
08- Intellectual, [...]

Softwares for Media & Entertainment

May 5th, 2009 by Benoit Martel

Summary
Project management tools are pretty new for the entertainment industry and in many other industries. Since the introduction of MS Project, many other companies have been creating other products with similar functionalities. Some have succeed, others have failed. On the Internet, we can find many free or license softwares for all type businesses and budgets. [...]

Philips 21:9 Cinema display; the Carousel movie

April 23rd, 2009 by Benoit Martel

Philips is now offering highend cinema display, 21:9 screen TV. It’s probably very nice on the wall. I’m not writing about the TV, I’m actually posting because I think they got it right in terms of giving the audience a very catchy short movie. The movie is about a camera traveling into a robbery in [...]

Assets management definition

April 19th, 2009 by Benoit Martel

Before we deep into asset management, it’s important to put everyone on the same page and provide a good definition of what is a Digital Assets Management System by defining who uses DAM system & why it’s become more essential than ever in a production environment.
What is Digital Asset Management?
Digital asset management (DAM) systems consist [...]