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There’s something ironic about spending
much of your career developing tools

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and automating production workflows, only
to find yourself wondering whether

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automation might eventually make your own
work unnecessary.

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Early in my career, we used to joke about
how people

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thought visual effects were made.

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There seemed to be this assumption that we
had some magical button in our software

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that would do everything for us.

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Push a button, and there’s your animation.

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Move a slider, and suddenly you have a
realistic