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Fuck yeah! Looks like they're organizing under IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees)!

Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel

On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE.

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FUCKING GET THEIR ASSES MARVEL VFX PEOPLE!!!!

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Abuse of Visual Effects Artists Is Ruining the Movies

Visual effects studios are struggling to keep up with the demands that companies like Marvel place on their budget and their artists.

Anyone else seen this? It’s a really thorough and sad deep dive into the working conditions of VFX companies and the extremely outsized negative impact that Marvel/Disney has had on the industry. Some excerpts: 

As terrible as Marvel is to work with for these companies, with an incredible amount of work (basically all of their content has some level of animation), fast turnaround for low pay, etc, they create so much content the VFX studios have little choice in working for them.

Marvel movies are a nightmare to work on because they are intentionally made to be tweaked and adjusted till the last minute. With VFX that increases the workload astronomically, but there’s no adjustments made in the budgets. And the raw footage the VFX artists are given to work with is...well, ugly!

Not only are their demands and expectations unreasonable, the producers are often total assholes to the VFX artists. There is no central creative vision so they will constantly get entitled and scattered notes on the smallest things.

The artist are forced to perform under an extreme amount of pressure, with shifting deadlines, sudden changes, and being forced to move to new cities or countries because of studios attempting to underbid for the next gig.

The Disney/Marvel machine, and the abuse of VFX artists in general, needs to be addressed. It’s really shameful how they treat their artists, while entirely depending on them to make their low quality footage of an actor covered in dots talking to a floating ball in a warehouse comprehensible in any way. The article gets into why it’s so difficult for the artists to unionize, but hopefully this comes to a head soon because it is not sustainable. Even fans of Marvel should want to see changes here, because it keeps films from reaching their full potential when artists are overworked, underpaid, and exploited.

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BLACK PANTHER + VFX (2018)

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Full article here.

“For almost half a century, workers in the visual-effects industry have been denied the same protections and benefits their coworkers and crewmates have relied upon since the beginning of the Hollywood film industry,” VFX organizer for IATSE Mark Patch said in a statement. “This is a historic first step for VFX workers coming together with a collective voice demanding respect for what we do.”

This is epically good news.