So much of the VFX work is offloaded to dedicated VFX houses that I wonder how much effect this will actually help. One can hope that it spurs workers at those businesses to also demand...
The historical move is the second time in history that VFX professionals have joined together to demand the same protections and rights as their colleagues. Earlier this month, VFX crews at Marvel Studios voted to unionize beginning Aug. 21. Ballots are due on Sept. 11, and the vote count will take place on Sept. 12.
So much of the VFX work is offloaded to dedicated VFX houses that I wonder how much effect this will actually help. One can hope that it spurs workers at those businesses to also demand representation as Disney could easily just get rid of their in house VFX altogether in order to squash this movement. Either way, these workers are overworked and underpaid and they are a huge part of the film industry these days. They deserve the right to collectively bargain, and to have all of their names listed in the credits (currently each post house only gets a specific amount of names they can submit for the credit roll, so those names you see at the end of films that are huge blocks are not even all of the artists that have actually worked on that film).
So much of the VFX work is offloaded to dedicated VFX houses that I wonder how much effect this will actually help. One can hope that it spurs workers at those businesses to also demand representation as Disney could easily just get rid of their in house VFX altogether in order to squash this movement. Either way, these workers are overworked and underpaid and they are a huge part of the film industry these days. They deserve the right to collectively bargain, and to have all of their names listed in the credits (currently each post house only gets a specific amount of names they can submit for the credit roll, so those names you see at the end of films that are huge blocks are not even all of the artists that have actually worked on that film).