My VFX Blog gets Listed 29 out 60 VFX Blogs to Follow in 2021

A little more than 10 years ago, shortly after I joined Dneg in London and was then located in Singapore, I had this idea to start a blog writing about my journey of exploration into the VFX world and to share some news and resources with the visual effects community. I also thought it was a way for non-VFX folks to peer into the world of visual effects.

The blog was underwhelmingly entitled Patrick's VFX Blog.

In the 10 years that follow, I populated the blog with posts from whatever I was doing that was VFX related. There was no theme to the posts. At first, it was a lot of industry news, resources. In some of the posts I bought some gears and I posted those in too. Then I started posting my showreels of movies after they got released as well as tutorials about various topics that became relevant to me at various points in my career. About 3 years ago I began posting more personal pieces and various tests that I thought to engage in.

A month ago, my student (Shivam Upadhyay 3dsense DVE50) spotted a website that lists 60 top blogs to follow in 2021. At that time my blog was ranked 44, and I was super excited and encouraged to have my blog listed up there with the likes of Allan McKay, VFX Soldier, cmiVFX, Andrew Kramer of Video Copilot, etc. I did not know there was a website for blogs.

I was of the impression that the article was finished and was not going to update. Then just today, another student from the same class that I teach (Mint Ong 3dsense DVE50) pointed me to the same page, and to my pleasant surprise, my blog shot up to 29th place.

It is a pleasant surprise to me, even though I don't see this accolade as anything that my blog should deserve. But it does serve to encourage me to continue updating and feeding posts to my blog :)