The offer arrives on a Thursday and needs an answer the next Monday. Your first real contract after school. The studio's name is on things you have watched, and the rent is due. You say yes straight away. Everyone would do the same in your situation. Eighteen months later you have done four hundred versions of the same task: crowd pass, background character, matchmove... take your pick. You've never met the director. Your review notes arrive as a line in a spreadsheet. Your reel has nothing yo