New Evidence Emerges of Wage-Fixing by DreamWorks, Pixar and Blue Sky
The wage-theft scheme operated by major American animation studios continues to grow with no end in sight.
The wage-theft scheme operated by major American animation studios continues to grow with no end in sight.
The wage-theft scheme run by big animation studios is finally receiving some mainstream media attention after a significant piece was published today by Bloomberg News.
The overworked and underpaid artists on Adult Swim’s “Rick and Morty” ratified a new labor agreement last week, and ‘Rick and Morty”s co-creator doesn’t like how it happened.
The crew of the Adult Swim series “Rick & Morty” ratified a new labor agreement last Monday with the Animation Guild.
Shocking details of wage-theft conspiracy emerge in a class action lawsuit filed against DreamWorks, Disney, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Digital Domain 3.0, Sony Pictures Imageworks and others.
Pixar and Disney Animation president Ed Catmull has always had a reputation as a decent person, but newly revealed court documents show that he’s been working against the interests of Pixar’s employees for years, as well as trying to hurt other studios who didn’t play by his rules.
Tech site Pando Daily has been providing amazing coverage of the Department of Justice antitrust invesigation and subsequent class action lawsuits over wage-fixing amongst Silicon Valley tech companies and animation studios.
Tomorrow, President Obama will deliver a speech about the economy at DreamWorks Animation. It is, as far as we know, the first speech …
It has often been said that the rhythmicality of animation has much in common with music. The other, more unfortunate, similarity between …
Late-breaking labor news out of Los Angeles: NICK CG ARTISTS OVERWHELMINGLY RATIFY ANIMATION GUILD CONTRACT Burbank, CA, July 12 — …
A commentary worth reading by Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society: “We are at a tipping point in our industry – no …
The Oscar organizers cut off his speech when he tried to talk about the VFX industry. What did Bill Westenhofer want to say?
What better time to protest Hollywood’s woeful treatment of animation and visual effects artists than on the film industry’s biggest …
Within the last 6 months, two of the biggest U.S. visual effects houses—Digital Domain and Rhythm & Hues—have declared bankruptcy. …
Character designer Stephen Silver is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore.
Internships are addressed with increasing frequency on Cartoon Brew. While there is value to the concept of internships, too many studios …
Animator Ken Harris becomes a meme. Via Reddit. (Ironically, Harris was one of the fastest animators at Warner Bros. and would often …
There’s a price to pay for working in visual effects: many artists are faced with paying the ultimate price–a matter of life and …
Labor violations in the visual effects industry are nothing new; they have simply become more public thanks to a vocal online community …
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that, according to a study by the nonprofit National Association of Colleges and Employers, …