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" Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible. "
Freddie Wong
Character
Doing
Visual
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" We don't believe in competition. "
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" Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works. "
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Will
Future
" One of our goals is to figure out ways of diversifying where we are. "
Freddie Wong
Figure
Goals
Our
" Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move. "
Freddie Wong
Move
Defying
Genre
" I'm not even very good at most video games. "
Freddie Wong
Good
Games
Even
" The goal is not to just do 'Video Game High School' every year. We want to grow into a real content production company. We want to be Pixar or HBO. We want to make five series a year or 10 series a year. "
Freddie Wong
High School
School
Game
" We have an audience, the ability to fund our own projects, own our own projects, the ability to display our projects unencumbered by any middlemen. That's the perfect scenario. "
Freddie Wong
Own
Ability
Audience
" Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window? "
Freddie Wong
Chair
House
My Own
" As you reach more people, there is a potential to make a living with what you are creating, and that's the goal. "
Freddie Wong
You
Potential
People
" Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens. "
Freddie Wong
People
Content
More
" It's rare to find a corporate partner who encourages true creativity, but our meetings with Lionsgate's creative team convinced us that this is the right move for RocketJump and our millions of fans. "
Freddie Wong
Partner
Creative
Team
" Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker's tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad - maybe it's not the tool's fault. "
Freddie Wong
Always
Art
Bad
" Online is another way for all of us to reach people. "
Freddie Wong
Reach
People
Way
" Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gaming and we're familiar with in gaming and being like, 'OK, hold on, let's re-examine this for a second. Isn't this funny? Isn't this strange? Isn't this a little bit ridiculous?' That's where it is. "
Freddie Wong
See
Strange
Humor
" The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second. "
Freddie Wong
World
Building
History
" The Lionsgate deal came at an opportune time. It allows us to get our projects financed and create long-form content without needing to be reliant on brand deals or crowdsourcing for external financing. "
Freddie Wong
Content
Without
Time
" When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component. "
Freddie Wong
YouTube
Early
People
" I don't think a lot of people really know what goes into something that they see. "
Freddie Wong
People
Know
Think
" We believe that the future for content-creators such as ourselves lies in being able to source project money from an audience and deliver on those projects in a timely and cost-effective manner. "
Freddie Wong
Audience
Money
Believe
" Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now. "
Freddie Wong
School
Think
Time
" In general, a lot of content creators find that their success is unable to support any sort of organization of scale. It's pretty difficult to support even three or four employees. "
Freddie Wong
Three
Success
Support
" The moment you've brought a toothbrush to work, then you're getting into crunch time. "
Freddie Wong
You
Getting
Moment
" Drift racing is expensive. "
Freddie Wong
Expensive
Racing
Drift
" We are video consumers first and foremost, and we hate anything appearing in the videos that isn't organic. "
Freddie Wong
First
Videos
Consumers
" I don't think any reasonable person would object to you, as the advertiser, having say in who and what you want to pair your ad with. "
Freddie Wong
Your
You
Want
" Video content yearns to be free. "
Freddie Wong
Free
Content
Video
" At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to make good content, and good content will be able to live anywhere. "
Freddie Wong
Best
Strategy
Day
" We've always wanted to control the video player for our videos. We really want to evolve how comments on videos work. "
Freddie Wong
Control
How
Want
" On the advertising side, view count is not the most important thing. It's engagement. "
Freddie Wong
Advertising
Side
Most
" We're able to push the envelope with what we're doing, both on a technical and artistic level, which is the most that any filmmaker can ask for. "
Freddie Wong
Most
Technical
Push