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Now is the time! Today, VFX on-set workers announced the formation of our union with the @IATSE by officially filing for an election with the NLRB. We are now prepared to VOTE YES and finally join our film/TV kin at the bargaining table.
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BREAKING: Visual Effects (VFX) crews at Walt @Disney Pictures have filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to unionize with backing of @vfxunion.
This marks only the second time in history VFX pros have joined together, with the first being earlier just this month.
BREAKING: Walt Disney Pictures’ VFX Workers voted unanimously to unionize in a labor board election. The vote was 13-0
These workers become the 2nd dedicated VFX unit to unionize with us, with the other being the unanimous election of Marvel Studio’s VFX workers just last month.
We have models for building power that VFX have learned from. Now we are carrying out the plan to make that happen. Big announcements could come within weeks to make this a reality;
"We need a union like the animation industry has"
And the movie industry hasn’t avoided the problems of the game industry entirely. Because the period in which computer graphics developed into an essential component of filmmaking happened well after the era of labor radicalism described by Denning, (1/6)
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Hollywood special-effects studios never developed a strong union. (They formed a professional trade association instead.)
And now, special-effects houses are treated remarkably like video game studios, (2/6)
of the partly computer-animated cat-actor hybrids, and the fact that the film was released with glitchy and incomplete computer effects. In that respect, Cats feels like an early vision of a world in which Hollywood business practices come to resemble video game ones, (5/6)
instead of the other way around: incomplete versions of movies, released with glaring technical flaws resulting from the poor management of nonunion workplaces. It was perhaps the first tentpole film that would have benefited from a day-one patch. (6/6)