State of the art: Women call few of film's digital shots


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 29 May 2014

WHITHER THE WOMEN?: A graphic artist working on a digital model at a digital animation studio in Singapore. Women may be lagging behind even more in the digital arts than they are in the film and tech industries generally. — Reuters

LOS ANGELES: It's too bad women can't computer-generate more of their own participation in the technical side of filmmaking. 

Digital animation and visual effects are so widespread today that studios can end up using them in nearly every shot. Yet as the trend grows, women may be lagging behind even more in the digital arts than they are in the film and tech industries generally. 

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