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VFX workers have collaborated with IATSE to create the 2022 VFX Workers Wage and Working Conditions Survey. vfxunion.org/2022-survey/ This survey is open to all who work in VFX, please share it with everyone you know!
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We are VFX workers joining with our entertainment colleagues to form VFX-@IATSE the union for production and facility-based VFX workers.
- 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. vulture.com/2023/08/vfx-wo… #VFXunion #IATSE
- Read the writing on the pavement. The time is now for our VFX union!
- We are making history! The time for our VFX Union is now. First Marvel, now Disney. We're far from done. Join the movement
- We're making history!!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"
- Ballots in the NLRB election for the Marvel VFX crew will be counted tomorrow, 9/12 @ 2pm pt. Stay tuned for updates.
- 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) newrepublic.com/article/162606…
- Replying to @vfxunionHollywood 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)
- Replying to @vfxunionof 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)
- Replying to @vfxunioninstead 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)
