Marvel Studios' VFX Staff Unanimously Votes to Unionize (gizmodo.com)
from psychothumbs@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2023 20:07
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luthis@lemmy.nz on 14 Sep 2023 20:12 next collapse

This is what happens when you don’t have good employee protection laws. I want to see more of this happening.

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2023 20:35 next collapse

In tomorrows news: Disney decides to invest in AI generated VFX for their movies

Wermhatswormhat@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2023 20:59 next collapse

They likely already are to be honest.

radix@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2023 21:56 collapse

The opening credits for Secret Invasion were reportedly done (at least partially) with AI.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2023 21:27 next collapse

And people will praise them. Because did you see how bad Sebastian Stan’s hair looked in that movie? Why are we paying these horrifically overworked VFX staff anything?

Oh, no, sorry. People will clown on Marvel because this means everyone’s hands and feet will look bad because nobody understands how training data sets work or why The Simpsons have four fingers. And then lose their minds when it looks “good enough”.

But yeah… more power to the VFX studios and I hope this spreads so that we have fewer “you have one month to do the money shot for our entire movie” debacles. But… I don’t see this ending well.

Also: how much does marvel have in post-production right now? Since they can’t film anything. Feels like it might be easy to “wait out” a vfx strike. Especially since they tend to be even more underpaid than the writers.

echo64@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2023 22:29 next collapse
ultratiem@lemmy.ca on 15 Sep 2023 03:09 next collapse

Can’t copyright AI generated art ‘wink wink’

hansl@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 2023 03:35 collapse

How long do you think that will be once the Mouse decides it’s time to change the rules?

ultratiem@lemmy.ca on 15 Sep 2023 04:03 collapse

What rules ‘wink wink’

StenSaksTapir@feddit.dk on 15 Sep 2023 05:43 collapse

Or maybe India still has some people who can be retrained from their profession of phone scammer to cheap VFX artists?

BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca on 14 Sep 2023 20:47 next collapse

Love to see it.

Wermhatswormhat@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2023 21:01 next collapse

This is fantastic news for those artists. Marvel is nortorious (and many many others) for requesting changes or scope creeping to a point that entire studios are canabalising themselves in order to stay afloat. Studios going under the literal opening day of a movie. I really hope for the best for them!

Feathercrown@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2023 21:03 next collapse

🥳

BloodSlut@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 2023 00:32 collapse

This is great, VFX teams at large studios have been under increasing amounts of crunch lately, it’s become indefensibly abusive at this point so I’m glad that theyre getting this done.