#24: Having a VFX Career on Youtube w/ Clint Jones

The Andrew Price Podcast

Clinton Jones is a Youtuber (Pwnisher) with almost a million subscribers, creating tutorials and explainer videos for Cinema4D, unreal engine and 3D in general. Before that, he was part of the Corridor channel, reacting to VFX and creating short films. Most recently he created a series of community challenges that went viral, where thousands of artists create animations, and then Clint puts the best into mega montage that is incredible to watch if you haven’t seen it.

In this episode we talk about how he got started in VFX and Youtube, why he deparated from Corridor, the 2022 Oscar VFX nominees, and why audiences hate CG. (all chapter marks in the description).

Chapter Marks:

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:17 Making of Corridor Crew’s VFX React
• 3:35 Clint’s Corridor origin story
• 09:00 Learning to be a better storyteller
• 13:30 Post-Rocket Jump
• 14:38 Sam & Nico invite Clint to Corridor
• 16:45 What inspires you?
• 18:26 Free Guy
• 19:50 Watching the Oscars
• 21:13 Dune
• 23:24 VFX in District 9
• 27:25 VFX in Shang Chi
• 30:00 Top Gun
• 31:35 Why do audiences hate CG?
• 36:10 All movies are just fine
• 36:35 Poliigon Ad
• 40:57 Into The Spider Verse
• 41:48 How long were you at Corridor?
• 43:15 The Viral Community Challenges
• 52:43 Why are NFTs so controversial?
• 59:33 Kanye West and NFTs
• 01:04:35 Why NFTs let artists do more art