For all the bad stuff I said about the R-rated elements of the film, it’s not at all any worse than Game of Thrones.
This is awesome!!! You may be so proud of him!!!
This is such a great story for those of us who believe that our kids should follow their passion! You can define success in so may ways- but feeling happy and fullfilled in your career is so important!
Nice story! A little bit of luck, a lot of hard work, considerable talent and voilá! Thanks for sharing.
I’ve enjoyed your thoughtful and helpful comments on CC and really enjoyed reading about your son’s journey. Congrats to you both!
Thanks so much @palm715 - I really appreciate that.
Congrats! There is something so visceral about seeing your (kids) name up on the big screen! Especially as it inches upwards! Did you take pix in the theater as the credits rolled by? 
@gouf78 - Wow, what a coincidence. It was just two days ago that I saw a comment of yours in some other thread and thought, “I haven’t seen that name in a while.” Even though you post a lot, I just hadn’t seen the name lately. And here you are!!
You’d better believe I took a photo. I actually have photos of his name in the credits of many of his films. Is that strange (laughing)? (The photos I take in the theater are quite bad, but when the film comes out on TV or DVD, I can pause the credits and get a good shot. Obsessed, I know.)
Yay! Worth a little burst of pride!!
Hope it isn’t strange (although the few people left in the theater may think so) because we do it too!
H goes down front and snaps it with his phone.They come out pretty good! It is fun. I know we get more excited than D does–she’s working on the next project before the movie ever hits the theater.
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Exactly!!
So this has been my issue on that, is it bad to rent a straight to DVD movie and skip to the credits because you really have no desire to watch the 90 minutes that got your child in the credits. At least you are in a theatre watching a movie that might be worth paying money for.
@jtmoney - I’VE DONE THAT SEVERAL TIMES, especially if it’s on Netflix or some other streaming service. Skipped right to the credits. A lot of strong vfx movies don’t really interest me that much, although some many do. For example, the second indie film that my son worked on was a Curtis Jackson (“Fifty-Cent”) film that was supposedly so bad that it wasn’t picked up for distribution. We saw it on BET and thought it wasn’t bad at all. But we did watch the credits more than once since our son WAS the entire vfx crew.
@digmedia , I know it’s probably staring me in the face, but could you remind me of your son’s educational background? Is your son a highly energetic extrovert? Just curious. Thanks!
My son is getting excited again about animation (he decided to focus on particle systems this semester in his game production class), but reading about the intensity of art/animation, I just wonder at his ability to do the Fine Arts degree at Penn-36 classes, which includes 20 Fine Arts classes. They do have a lot of animation, which is cool, but it sure sounds incredibly time consuming. As he said, you can’t rush art (animation).
That’s interesting. D has credits on multiple BET standbys, one of her good connections. The one movie I watched al of was actually decent.
Congratulations!! It just goes to show you don’t have to go to the “name” school/most $$ to get a great education and succeed.
@spiffyiscool - Thanks. I think that success depends on three things: talent/skills, drive, and creating a network of people. My son has repeatedly said that, at least in the technical areas of the industry, NOBODY CARES WHERE YOU WENT TO SCHOOL.
This is awesome news for me to read at this stage!!! And my D3 just said to tell him “awesome” and it’s her favorite movie she’s ever seen!
@digmedia it’s great to hear your latest S2 update. Congratulations to him (and you) as his career progresses. I will not be surprised one bit when you post about his Academy Award acceptance. 
For those who haven’t followed digmedia over many years, he is modest about his son’s accomplishments, some of the best of which involve his commitment to making a career. Not only is he clearly talented at his art, he’s also got personal skills that allowed him to bond with a stellar group of film artists (a community I believe he helped build at his university–which is not generally touted as a film school powerhouse). Those college buddies were part of his start as they supported each other through private projects and I believe even moving to L.A. Some of this success must also be attributed to finding a technical niche that is his passion and also is attainable (see how many artists names scroll by at the end credits on big action movies?) And as for Deadpool, it was my favorite movie this year. As a writer, I loved the opening credits that named the Writers as “The real heroes of this movie!” hehe.
@madbean - Thanks for the very kind words, although I do not think I am modest about my son’s accomplishments/ I too thought the opening credits for Deadpool were brilliant!