cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/7233504
Supporting the Rules
alt text: “the state of the animation industry”
“you’re pirating that show? don’t you wanna support the creators?” “I AM the creator.”
“haha the only way I can show future employers my work is to send a link to a bunch of pirated copies of it haha what a nightmare haha”
I have this problem. A couple of AAA projects I worked on, years of work, got cancelled and all that exists now is “stolen” footage. Then there’s the dozen mobile apps that have been pulled from the app stores (or gotten “out of date” and no longer supported). Can’t find APKs or store listings, just 3rd party site reviews are the only evidence of their existence.
You don’t save anything to show later?
The credits couldnt theoretically magically appear?
I mean they wouldn’t be infringing on copyright or whatevs since they are just a list of names. and additionally most people on these lists would corroborrate the existance of most other people there (which doesnt make it perfect, but better)
As someone in the industry, I have done this as well, even while sometimes working at the very same company who should in theory have easy access to said files.
I made a rant post about this same shit.
Zaslav and whoever is influencing the bad movies at Sony are a danger to the industry. I do believe Warner Brothers was better before (like long ago) but they got in the make money fast mentality and took hostage good franchises doing cash grab after cash grab. Of course, making money is the name of the game but either you produce shit quick or produce a good product. That is how Marvel got where they are, with good products, but as you know they also switched to the quick-shit money making strategy.
Liked your rant btw.
What’s the thing to the left of steam?
Looks like the company logo, Running with Scissors.
Demo reels aren’t a thing anymore?
Anyone got a link to some reading on this subject? This is the first I’m hearing about it and it seems pretty complex.
They are referring to how Zaslav keeps archiving animation to not pay people.
https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2022/09/19/animated-content-removal-problem/
This is the latest example that sparked it off again, but stuff like this has been going on for a decade. Many animators and vfx artists who work for high profile companies never get the final versions of their work and sometimes work on locked down servers where they can’t easily copy the work for themselves. They are at the whim of the company to provide them the files. Usually they are ignored so the artists resort to pirating the work to then edit it down and showcase on their websites and reels.
This Zaslav guy’s kind of dumb, overpaid piece of shit, eh?
Anyone know how the $250 mil he’s paid in stock options works? In one of the links in the article above it says he only gets that money if the stock goes above a certain price. Surely, there’s tiers or brackets or something, right? Like, considering the stock has only gone down, it seems hard to believe he literally gets zero value out of all that stock
I had such high hopes for HBO Max as a bastion for animation before they got completely fucked. They nuked Summer Camp Island (a very wholesome, charming, and slightly weird show) right before its final season came out, delaying the premiere more than a year and with zero notice to its creator, Julia Pott. Pott implied as legally as she could that the season would get out there one way or another, so either someone at CN has a heart or her threat worked.
And to this day they deny that Summer Camp Island, OK KO, Infinity Train (one of CN’s top performing shows!), and others even existed, while cutting funding for even more shows. I’m still devastated, we had a beautiful revival in the 2010s, but now there’s barely anything new on at all. So many up and coming creators utterly shafted no matter what network they work with.
All we really have left is Prime and Netflix, and god knows those aren’t reliable. What a mess…
Random question: does anyone here know someone who has acces to MLP seasons 1-6 music files? I’m interested in instrumentals and original files before lossy compression.
Didn’t Nintendo get caught selling pirated copies of their old NES games?
