#vfx artists please unionize

[alfairy]

so i saw the new trailer fo secret invasion and-

what????

are they just ignoring the fact that they set up the skrulls as being good????

from the trailer it seems they are just saying that the skrulls have always been abd and were just pretending

wha???

like it seems to be the first serious mini series and yet it already seems to have problems

like whether you like the change of the skruls being good or not, they still should have kept at least to it

Imma be completely honest, I don’t know anything about the mcu at this point and don’t watch any new marvel content at all I am living in blissful ignorance. But I would not be surprised marvel forgot their own lore

[thesepaintedhands]

The WGA and AMPTP have reached a tentative deal to end the writer's strike 146 days after it started.

This is incredible news. As someone in the film and TV industry, I'm thrilled and I applaud the members of the WGA for their tenacity. They truly showed up and fought to make things better for future generations of writers, and they deserve everything they asked for (and hopefully won) with this deal. Fingers crossed that a similar deal will be reached soon between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA to end the actor's strike.

That being said, as someone working in VFX, I'm imploring everyone to be kind to VFX artists in the coming months. We all want the industry to make a comeback and to be part of bringing back the media we all know and love, but I can guarantee that the big studios of the AMPTP that contract out work to smaller VFX shops like mine are now going to try to make up as much lost revenue as possible. Shows that had production grind to a standstill are going to come back on condensed schedules, and since all the smaller shops have been hit hard by the strikes, they're going to take up as much work as possible. And VFX folks don't have unions. We don't have protections against gross amounts of overtime to stop the client studios from simply pulling a show from us if we can't bend over for a wildly unrealistic production schedule.

Again, I'm thrilled the WGA strike has an end in sight, but I'm also mentally preparing for a sucky few months ahead for myself and my friends and colleagues in post-production. And the work will suffer for it; it always does. So if the CG in your favorite shows or that movie you're looking forward to looks kind of wonky in the coming year, please be kind to the VFX artists. We're always doing the best we can with what we're given, and I think we're about to be given a lot less than usual.

[sodrippy]

not that anyone cares but oh my goddddd the tags on that "wishing the vfx industry a very please unionize" post are so ANNOYINGGGGG NONE OF YOU GET IT acting as if vfx artists are anti-union or too stupid to organize or something, like you have no IDEA how any of this works nor the practicalities of the situation good god. im exploding you. enough

[lindensea]

With all the talks about the WGA strikes, there's been a lot of confusion about where animation stands in this. Let's clear some stuff up! WGA is a writer's strike. Now, you might say, animation has writers too and YES it does. And you might be seeing posts saying that animation isn't unionized. But see, that's where things get tricky! Animation isn't a monolith.

SOME of animation IS unionized, and the biggest union by far is The Animation Guild (TAG), based in LA area (although it's been branching out). Click the link to see which studios are a part of TAG! Writers in TAG studios are covered under TAG, not WGA. That's why when writers strike, there are usually articles about animated productions still chugging away. Well that, and the fact that some studios ARE non-union, which means they also aren't WGA (and should also be striking tbh).

If a studio is unionized, does that mean everyone in the studio is covered in said union?? NO, it does not. Once again, using TAG as the example, since that's what I'm familiar with, TAG just covers creative employees. That's your writers, background painters, vis dev artists, animators, riggers, modelers, technical directors, executive producers, directors, etc etc etc). And that's just for the ones that work in-studio, because it gets even more complicated, but we'll get there in a second.

So what about the people who work in unionized studios but still aren't covered in the union? Well, that would be production (but also post-production and prob more I'm forgetting). Production is the organizational side of animation. Line producers, production managers, production coordinators, production assistants/secretaries, script coordinators/writers' assistants, etc. They keep everything from falling apart and make sure everything is happening that should happen. They're vital to every studio, but since they're not artists, they're not part of the union. There's been a movement to unionize, and TAG has been talking about this for years, but it's slow moving. There are a few studios whose production (or post-production!) staff have unionized in the past couple years, but it's really rare. Walt Disney Animation Studios' production staff has been working hard on this this year! Please support them.

To make things more complicated, union studios can farm out animation to overseas/foreign/partner studios, and these studios are almost always non-union. Union studios will write, develop, design all the art in house, and board the episodes (although in-house boarding has become increasingly optional in this pipeline) and send it all over to their much lesser paid, non-union "partners." This is pretty much the norm for American animated TV shows. It's been on the rise for feature films though, especially those released on streaming platforms.

But wait, there's more! What I just described is feature and tv animation in America. But VFX/animation used in live action productions, and gaming studios are, once again, whole other beasts that maybe someone else can talk about. My understanding is that those industries are even less unionized than tv/feature. And then there's non-US studios, although at least in Canada unions have been picking up steam lately

There's also the case of companies owning both union and non-union studios and thus causing more confusion. For example Walt Disney Animation Studios (Disney's feature studios, which makes things like Encanto and Frozen and Strange World almost completely in-house ) is union. Disney Television Animation is union (The Owl House, Gravity Falls, Amphibia, etc) is union but they send their shows to be animated by usually non-union studios. Pixar is non-union. 20th Century Animation is union. Marvel Studios is union, but that's specifically things like What If, not the animation in their live action movies. Walt Disney Studios, the live action feature division farms out their cg/VFX to mainly non-union studios. This is where things like The Lion King remake come from. This makes blanket statements like "Disney artists are non-union" kind of useless. Disney isn't one entity, and even though they're the worst example, that's how animation is becoming. A bunch of really different studios under one umbrella organization.

What I'm getting at here is that the animation industry is waaaaay more complicated than netizens make it seem. And netizens have a Lot of uneducated opinions which are very confidently stated as fact, which spread like wildfire. Please fact check! Look up a few articles. Fact check me even! You don't know who I am! If you genuinely want to help a cause, learning about it is the first step.

[turbobyakuren]

gasha: (on her monologue about how much she hates the modern film industry) --and like-- and like the PRESSURE they put on VFX artists is so god damn vexing!!! Everything is unionized! Hair stylists, prop artists and set designers! So they have to VFX EVERYTHING!

akira: See if i were to direct movies i would straight up use my illusion powers

gasha: what

akira: imagine: the power of the VFX, none of the workload, and everything fits the vision of the director, ergo: me!

gasha: (looks around and they are now in a los angeles starbucks) uh?

akira: even better i can cast literally anyone in my film. I can make an american blockbuster with the budget of a telefilm.

gasha: (they are now in a new york cafe) akira i don't even like those films--

scarlett johanson: imagine, the unlimited power we could have

megan fox: akira, could you please stop messing with our perception of reality to make a point

rodney dangerfield: yeah akira you're being annoying

megan fox: shut up kana this is not about you nor about the ethics of bringing back dead celebrities to make a quick buck

rodney dangerfield: (stretching tie comically) i don't get no respect!

[rexchanna]

My like 3 mutuals who forgot where they know me from are probably like, hey why is that undergod suddenly super active rn about the wga/sag strikes.

I mentioned this in the tags of a prior post, but it’s a little bit personal for me because my hometown is hella affected by the strikes. Istg the entertainment industry makes up probably 40% if not more of the working population ranging from producers and Oscar winners living at the literal top of the hill to av assistants and hair and make up artists living in mobile home parks at the base of the valley. (40% also includes the equipment rental companies, caterers, editors, vfx artists, and other adjacent industry.)

I have this neighbor who is an exec at a struck company who makes hella bank, and even more with side projects he’s got going. He could definitely withstand a pay cut. So for example he might take a slice of that multi-million dollar salary and buy some out-of-date equipment to rent out. It’s not illegal if you set up your businesses right, and idk if I’d call it immoral since the studio would be otherwise hoarding it in a warehouse somewhere, but I’m just using this as an example of how money begets money for these people. They all do stuff like that. That’s just how capitalism works.

Let’s not forget either that being employed by the studio, executives and admins generally enjoy far greater job stability than nearly any creative in the field. Hollywood is an absolute hellscape to break into; it’s largely a gig economy and even when you get work, projects disappear all the time and you have to go hunting for a new one. Hundreds of thousands in the industry are eking by, surviving on inconsistent contract work, unemployment, and stars in their eyes. The only salvation is getting into a guild, because union approved contracts offer a more standardized and equitable pay scale for tracked levels of experience.

And another the thing: a rising tide lifts all ships. What happens here helps composers, helps the set crews, helps the PAs down the line. #UnionStrong

But also like, I’m looking at my neighbors house on Zillow right now and it’s worth 20% more than his next door neighbor after all the $$ he’s put in it. Fuck that guy.

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Please donate to the community fund to help the strikers and other folks out of work due to the strike. The longer they hold out, the longer they have to fight for their rights.

[sw4tch]

///vent stuff

*deep sigh* you know why that hit me so hard?

i’m scared of being genuinely mediocre. the kind of mediocre person that’s easy to forget about, easy to replace, easy to abandon.

I’m scared of being justifiably abandoned and forgotten.

I keep living my life thinking “if i become real good at this, if i put all my effort, if i cant be the best but definitely the most dependable one, then i can secure my value in the world. I can be a valuable person that people won’t be in a hurry to replace”. 

Make yourself indispensable and you’ll never be alone in your entire life.

so i do my best, i try to do better, i try to... I try to be good. 

so hearing this man just. tearing me apart, saying i have no talent for it, that i surely didn’t put enough effort, then It. 

It scares me. Because maybe he’s right and I’m a talentless hack that another 7281329 artists around the world can REPLACE (they can and they WILL).

Maybe i’m not a real digital artist. Maybe i just draw good sometimes.

Maybe my passion isn’t enough and i’ll never make it in this capitalist world.

and listen.

I’d love to be Mediocre.

I’d love to just be able to draw good sometimes and. Call it a day. get a job in accounting or another very stable office job. Live without a worry that i’ll starve to death if i’m not good enough. I’d just have to be GOOD. not excellent, not amazing, just. Good. Enough.

I wish what i did now was ENOUGH. But it’s not, not if i want to be a digital artist.

I need to be excellent, competitive, INDISPENSABLE, to ensure that I won’t starve to death.

and it’s just. It’s a lot of pressure, knowing that if you’re not good enough, then you’re done for. 

There’s millions of ~mediocre artists~

There’s only a few people with real talent that GET to inspire others, that GET the dream of working in what they love, that GET to not work a single day in their life because of it.

ufdhhd. ugh, AND YOU KNOW WHAT? Being mediocre shouldn’t be bad. mediocre is such.

okay. mediocre, what is mediocre? something not good enough? okay, good.

But like. being mediocre at art shouldn’t devalue yourself as a person. shouldn’t make people think less of you. Being mediocre shouldn’t be such a capital sin that makes people look DOWN on you.

We don’t start being AMAZING at everything, we learn and get better everyday, either in being an artist or any other thing. and before we get truly good?? WE ARE MEDIOCRE. and that shouldn’t... that shouldn’t make you want to kill yourself. you’re at the half point of the journey. and even if you stay there, at the half point, well.

You’re still important as a person.

You’re still worthy of love.

and.

oh god.

I’m so depressed. I am absolutely depressed over this. I keep thinking “well, if a professional in the industry, a man that animated for SPIDERVERSE, THAT MOVIE YOU LOVE SO MUCH, tells you are a lame excuse for an animator?? then maybe he’s RIGHT and you’ll never be anything else”

oh god i’ll never make it out of here

i’ll always be stuck at this home, stuck taking care of my mother, begging my father to give us rent money so that we have a roof on our heads, stuck in Mexico forever, never to see the world STUCK IN THE HELL HOLE STUCK IN THE HELL HOLE STUCK GINT JWHEMH EHELL HOLE

EVERYONE ELSE IS SO TALENTED, EVERYONE ELSE IS BEAUTIFUL, EVERYONE ELSE HAS EVERYTHING

AND I AM NOTHING

I HAVE NOTHING

I AM NOTHING TO NO ONE AND THE WORLD WOULDN’T MISS ME AT ALL BECAUSE ANYONE CAN REPLACE ME

jdsj

fjdfjkdjkfdjkfdjkfjkfdjk 

god.

when i write down the louder thoughts. they. they hurt a lot more but also. i can. reread them. and reread them, and think. and think.

i’m so scared of being poor forever, of always living paycheck to paycheck. 

I don’t want to stay here in Mexico, i want to leave, i want to start a new life out there, somewhere BETTER, somewhere SAFER. 

i want to find my real family, a family made of friends that love me, a family i can actually love.

I don’t want to be stuck in a low paying job that i hate just to have a roof on my head. I’m scared, i’m so scared.

I’d rather be dead than stuck here forever oghgod

im panicking

okay

wwmd

what would mob do? he would... persevere. but. that fictional kid already has a family that loves him, an entire circle of friends that adore him. and also it’s so unlikely he’d be piss poor even at his low point because of japan’s superior economical status andnjsadsa oH GDO not even mob is poor and i will always live here in this hell hole

i hate myseklf i hate myself i hate myself i hate myself i ehsdh myself

...I’m too soft... too weak... for this hyper competitive world.

I wish i could just... My dream is to work at a bakery. Everyday, prepare for the grind of the day, go to sleep late, get up really early, but at the same time. Just doing bakery stuff. for a living. for the rest of my life. just providing food, not going bankrupt because of bigger competitors. Just, making bread. living in a close community. spreading good vibes. Baking for the rest of my life.

At least then... I would have a stable life. Heck, even if it was lonely... it would be peaceful. 

I wish I could be at peace.

But apparently animators and vfx artists get exploited, and that’s not the exception it’s the rule. if you’re a digital artist then get ready to have your work devalued, cheapened. and you’re just going to have to take it because there’s no unions.

hell hole #2

I’m so depressed. I keep worrying about not being able to save money for my retirement. 

i don’t want to suffer for the rest of my life, oh god im so scared.

That’s it, i keep writing nonsense because im so scared, im panicking at the moment.

i’m scared, i’m scared, i’m scared. And i can’t calm down. I thought writing would make it better as it does always, but right now i’m just. Scaring myself more.

I’m going to stop now. I’m going to play videogames for a while. or something. I NEED TO DISTRACT MYSELF.

okay. okay.

what would you say to your future self?

Hey? I love you. You’re enough. I need you to know that. I love you. I’ll get us out of here. I love you. Be nicer to yourself, please. I love you.

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