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Lionsgate Signs Deal With AI Company Runway, Hopes That AI Can Eliminate Storyboard Artists and VFX Crews

The studi says that replacing human artists with AI will save “millions and millions of dollars.”

Powerhouse is the first Texas animation studio to join a union.

“Morale is really low because people no longer trust that they’re being led with their best interests at heart,” said one former Pixar employee.

The survey is designed to create transparency on how much animation workers make in the U.K.

The animation industry in Montreal, the province’s hub of animation and vfx production, is in decline.

A new round of talks has been scheduled for mid-September.

Animation workers in Los Angeles are fired up as they prepare to take on the world’s biggest entertainment companies.

The statement comes ahead of negotiations between animation workers and studios for a new collective bargaining agreement.

Ahead of new contract negotiations with studios, The Animation Guild is holding a rally this weekend in Burbank.

The group of 17 workers is employed across Apple Studios shows and films such as ‘Government Cheese,’ ‘Surface,’ and ‘Outcome.’

Approximately 14% of the studio’s staff is being laid off.

The U.S. animation industry might look bleak right now, but it could still get a lot worse.

Workers are bracing for layoffs to hit at the company’s studios in the U.K. and Canada.

With nearly 800 workers, Icon is one of Vancouver’s largest animation industry employers.

The workers will be covered under the Animation Guild and the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

The study warns, “If things continue like this, the technology in the anime industry will eventually stagnate, and the industry itself may collapse.”

Union members nationwide voted 95.52% to 4.48% in favor of the new deal.

Hundreds of Dreamworks staffers to be let go in the coming months.

A group of roughly 600 Activision employees is unionizing with the Communications Workers of America.

For the first time in TAG history, employees will now have access to three days of bereavement leave