Freddie Wong Quotes
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I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show... because it's very difficult to make a living making those types of shows.
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You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download.
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VR has a whole range of things it's very good at, and there's a lot of things that it's going to be deficient at.
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People predicted in the 1910s that live theater was going to be all gone and that we'd just be watching movies. No, live theater is still around, because it does things that are specific to it.
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The consumer is the absolute king in everything you do.
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Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.
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When we think about a great movie, I mean, what do we think about? We think about story, we think about character. And when the visual effects aren't perfect, we forgive it.
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YouTube's a funny place because so many creators fall into their aesthetics out of necessity and the visuals are driven out of an urge to create. You get a lot of interesting examples of interesting design choices that have roots in practicality as well as an artistic sentiment.
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If you can't answer the question 'What is VR adding to that experience?' - and it should be more than just a gee-whiz thing - then that project shouldn't be in VR. You're not taking full advantage of your medium.
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Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?
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As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal.
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I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
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The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time.
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Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible.
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I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to.
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Drift racing is expensive.
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We want to be a studio that makes a whole bunch of stuff we believe in, in all ranges of scale and time and length, and own as much as that IP ourselves and generate as much of that IP ourselves as possible.
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Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker's tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad - maybe it's not the tool's fault.
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Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now.
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Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.
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Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.
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When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component.
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Hulu understood how much content costs. By remaining defensive, YouTube is losing various aspects of video - long-form, for example - to other companies.
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Video content yearns to be free.