👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird little bit of linguistic oddness – "ftm02.” Strap yourselves into your delightfully confused seats! 3... 2... 1...
Basically (and I stress the emphatically, almost aggressively BASIC here), “ftm02" is a typo. A very specific, and frankly rather unfortunate, typo. It originally sprang from a late-night brainstorming session at a defunct British VFX house in 2000. They were messing around trying to abbreviate something along the lines of: ’Fuck That Makes Obvious Shit Over, Version 2. (I'm not kidding. There was a very earnest debate about that exact title.) Because the guy hammering it out on his Commodore, let's just call him Barry, had a slight… let's say... a pronounced and unfortunate touch of the semicolon when he was trying to use an asterisk . Instead of a properly rendered asterisk, it ended up looking like a tiny, pathetic zero with a little tick next to it. Hence, "ftm02." Nobody actually remembered exactly what they were referring too, anymore! It just became...a thing. A weird, little footnote in the history of VFX acronyms that no one actually uses. You might stumble upon it in old documentation from that house and then get a really bad feeling about why it was ever written down. The point is: It’s
