Comments on: VES director slams exploitation of VFX artists http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/05/ves-director-slams-exploitation-of-vfx-artists/ Community for Entertainment Artists Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:06:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bill Payer http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/05/ves-director-slams-exploitation-of-vfx-artists/#comment-11254 Bill Payer Thu, 26 May 2011 17:44:07 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=22815#comment-11254 Welcome to Capitalism ! The ONLY way this will change is through UNIONS. Why hasn’t the VFX society helped organize a union ??? They are as much to blame as the industry which constitutes it’s members.

]]> By: Thomas http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/05/ves-director-slams-exploitation-of-vfx-artists/#comment-11252 Thomas Thu, 26 May 2011 06:25:54 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=22815#comment-11252 Good thoughts, but totally naive. Why should the studios change their strategy when they profit from it? It’s a success story for the producers. As long as there are qualified people who work for pocket-money there will be exploitation and this is not just a problem in the VFX industry. You can find this problem in any industry. I guess many people have asked themselves why so many renowned studios had to shut down in the past months. The answer is simply that VFX finally became an industry. The only difference is that employees in this business are driven by passion and this makes them exploitable. Another reason is that there are so many competitors and they all want a piece of the cake. When services became comparable you have to lower your prices to be competitive.

Just have a look at a movie’s credits and you know immediately where VFX artists stand: at the very end of the production chain. Even electricians and set runners are credited before the people who actually made a movie an event.

All in all I don’t think that there will be a fundamental change in the (near) future. Even if it gets a little better then this will only be a temporary effect, but nothing that will really last.

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