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Author Topic: VFX Solidarity International  (Read 2135 times)

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« on: March 04, 2013, 20:54 »
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w7lwi

  • Those that don't stand up to evil enable evil.
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2013, 21:22 »
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http://www.firstshowing.net/2013/vfx-company-rhythm-hues-protested-last-nights-oscar-ceremony/

http://vfxsoldier.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/an-open-letter-to-ang-lee/
 
http://thinkinganimationbook.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-piece-of-pi.html?m=1

Most VFX artists work 100 hour weeks with no health insurance and no rights; many ending up in the hospital, sick from the ludicrous stress put on them to perform. VFX companies are lucky if they can make a 5% profit working on any tent pole films and inevitably all fail and go out of business with margins that slim. There are no unions and since this is now a global issue, no chance to form one. The famous "tax subsidies" that Studios chase from state to state and country to country is not a tax at all but millions of your hard-earned tax payer dollars "given" to the Studios for their films in hopes that it will bring in income & employment for their communities. It rarely does. I know character animators working on Tent Pole films for $12 per hour while carrying $100,000 school debts. The latest scam before Digital Domain went bankrupt was to get 30% of their films made by free labor through students. In India the VFX studios can legally insist their local artists work 3 feature films for free to "prove" themselves before they begin paying them. Most are let go after the third film. That mentality and financial success could easily begin being applied here.


 

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