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Animation GuildVFXReport Your Wages We are excited to share an important tool we are integrating into the Member Portal. This tool will allow us to compile average wage rates on a bi-annual basis so you can make sure you are getting…

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Animation GuildVFXCommittee Updates – October 2026 Production Committee In October the Production Committee met to discuss preparing for the upcoming 2027 negotiations cycle.

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Animation GuildVFXMake a Plan to Vote! Are you ready for the mid-term elections on November 3? A lot is on the line for labor. Make sure you have a plan for voting and all the information to vote for labor-endorsed candidates and…

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Animation GuildVFXCommittee Updates, September 2026 TAG’s committees have been hard at work, from speaking on international panels to fighting for fair AI safeguards to packing Hulett Hall for a live script reading.

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Animation GuildVFXMeet Your Steward: Alice Terz Production Coordinator Alice Terz discusses transitioning from freelance live action to animation, the joy of being surrounded by creative people, and using her role as a Shop Steward to foster…

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Animation GuildVFXMeet Your Steward – Ashley Long Supervising Director Ashley Long shares her love of creating a remarkable work experience for her colleagues, how she brings her Executive Board experience to her work, and her goal of demystifying…

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Animation GuildVFXCommittee Wrap-Ups August AI Committee In August the AI Committee participated in the CCAI Standards summit, met with The LA Fed AI working group regarding upcoming legislation, and connected with Jillian Arnold, the new…

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Animation GuildVFXLunch & Learn Recap: Fixing Your Credit Credit card debt is stressful, and navigating your way out of it can be daunting. For this August’s Lunch & Learn, Fixing Your Credit , we heard from experts from SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union…

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Animation GuildVFXMeet Your Steward: Crystal Kan Storyboard Artist Crystal Kan discusses why she’s a “comedy Swiss army knife” for her craft, the Guild experiences that led her to become a Shop Steward, and her commitment to being a safe space…

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Animation GuildVFXCommittee Updates, July 2026 Timing Committee In July the Timing Committee held a meeting via Zoom with new and returning committee members.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo