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cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/7233504

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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"

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

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