Do advertising agencies have VFX specialists, photographers, film makers in house?
Hello! First I'm not looking for career advice or doing job search (yet), but more like an ELI5 post.
I'm a student who loves watching commercials and campaigns during free time (for example Wieden Kennedy, VIRTUE commercials) and want to know what kind of "people" or "specialties" are involved in creating these short, impactful videos.
I've googled and looked thru my school's curriculum and found the following tools/skills:
Maya, entire Adobe Creative Suite, rotoscoping, compositing, rigging, 3D modeling, Cinema 4D, Avid, Houdini, Blender, Nuke, color grading, cinematography. These are mostly VFX tools pulled from my courses.
Do advertising companies expect their employees to have these skillsets or do they hire outside freelancers and agencies?
Thank you!