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Re:‘Dune’ VFX Firm DNEG Asking Staff to Take 25% Pay Cuts as... by ksey3 on Friday September 15, 2023 @03:42PM (#37528197)
VFX makes 0 sense to me as a business especially in todays over saturated content world. I have friends in DNEG were each movie has 100-200 people working on 20-25 minutes worth of footage for an ENTIRE fucking year. Thousands of people basically. And its a coin toss whether these movies are going to get the views.

Whenever I ask them how the fuck can such a business work, they just tell me erm we are just artists and coders. The job pays well so we dont ask the corporate robots too many questions about it.

And I keep pushing them to do so, cuz it doesnt make any sense given the costs involved unless it some elaborate walter white money laundering op.

Re:‘Dune’ VFX Firm DNEG Asking Staff to Take 25% Pay Cuts as... by salawat on Saturday September 16, 2023 @05:51AM (#37533406)
Ask the CEO what hos compensation looks like first.

I bet trimming their package'll be easier than everyone else's.