u/Crowded_Bathroom

Has anyone in here successfully left production in current TV/Movies/Ads and found other places that use some of these skills in adjacent industries? I sometimes daydream about the tiny number of people who get to do cleanup on modern scans of classic films for new releases, or people who work in archival digital scanning making 3d assets out of museum pieces, heritage scanning of locations, things like that. Does anybody have good info on not-quite-vfx industries that can still use overlapping tools and skills? I'd love to find a new path without completely starting over and abandoning all my skills and knowledge and starting over in my 40s. Bonus points if it's something that matters at all rather than making disposable pixels for amazon or Netflix or whatever.