Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel

Re:Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at... by riotnrrd on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:16PM (#37042785)

> by someone that had done the opening sequence for a major film

I used to work in VFX (tools programming) and this makes no sense. Major films have VFX crews that number in the hundreds; nobody does anything on their own. Even if they were only doing a credit sequence, that's dozens of people's work over weeks or months.

And "never saw a cent"?? Sure, VFX studios don't get residuals or a percentage of gross, but they do get paid.

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Re:Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at... by ipaddr on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:05PM (#37043138)

Count yourself lucky it looks like parent wasn't so lucky.

If your studio goes under you do not get paid. Did your studio go under while working there?

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Re:Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at... by riotnrrd on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:17PM (#37043671)

My main confusion was with the claim that one person did an entire "opening sequence" of a major film. That's simply not possible. It's like claiming a skyscraper was built by one guy.

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Re:Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at... by mike_hearn on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:39AM (#37046151)

Not every film is a Marvel movie. Many films use VFX even if it doesn't look like it. The opening sequence could have been for a romcom or something that only needed a bit of light work to touch up some frames or remove a wire or something.

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