Abuse of VFX Artists Is Ruining the Movies
, Sam recalled that Disney made increasingly huge demands on the VFX studios, who managed to pull off the project despite the massive time crunch.
David said that the support positions at studios tend to be full-time staffed employees. “And for those people, they would see some pressure… but they would never really feel it because they would never have to work the 12-, 16-hour days we’d have to do to get the stuff done. They’d be happy to tell us, Hey, you have to stay [to finish these shots]. But they were never the ones staying. So, 100%, the artists on that front line are being burnt out.
“Somebody got sick while working on a show,” recalled Sam , “and they felt so bad that they weren’t finishing their shots that they came in to keep working.” This is the weekend, mid-afternoon on a Sunday. Someone comes into Sam’s office and asks if he knows CPR. “The artist collapsed at their desk… They were breathing, but we had to call an ambulance.
“Unionizing is completely stacked against us,” Sam said. The VFX studios go through so many artists so fast that by the time you get enough people to sign cards and hold a vote, there might not be popular support, or even the kind of internal volunteer structure needed to form the union. “It’s kind of the nature of the industry that burnout is inevitable.” Conrad said. Sam said that the studios know and don’t care. “There’s just constantly a new crop of kids coming out of school who want to work in film.” But maybe burnout isn’t a strong enough word to describe what happens to some artists. Ren lists out what he’s seen happen in service to the studio: “Mental illness, physical illness, suicide.
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