CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED

this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!

Hi sorry to correct this info but please actually read the petition from IATSE- it's specifically for union recognition for Disney Production NOT for CGI/VFX/3DAnimation artists- its for Disney Production workers such as production coordinators, assistants, managers, etc to be recognized as a craft and part of The Animation Guild (TAG) 839. they are the people who do the organizing, scheduling, trying to maintain budget and team pace. They are NOT cg/vfx artists. Please still support them bc their unionizing is critical and they're hugely underpaid and treated like garbage BUT these are not the same crafts.

Disney "animators" (story, *anim, design, edit, writers, etc) are already unionized if they are in-house artists (*so 3D cg animators @ disney who animate in-house on the films are union- while most TV series are outsourced to vendor studios with some exceptions of the rare dtva in-house animator like Spencer Wan who is probably the most well known despite there being a bunch of them. this also doesnt include freelance workers but thats a different problem all together)

"CGI"/VFX is hugely underpaid, undervalued and unrecognized. Most people have never heard of ILM, Framestore, Animal Logic, or Ghost VFX despite them working on some of the biggest Marvel movies of the past few years. If you want to advocate for VFX workers unionizing, go to the source, do a bit of research, find and advocate for them in specific rather than a broad "disney" bc Disney will always say they're already union when they're using outsourced labor (which to be clear totally legal and unfortunately normal just. VFX should also unionize. lol)

Support both and be vocal about workers rights for all animation workers from Prod to CGI/VFX (fittingly- the very beginning and very end of production pipeline)

"how to look androgynous" "nonbinary fashion tips" you are skinny im not listening to you

ALT

Youre supposed to interpret it as "skinny nonbinary ppl see themselves as the default state of being nonbinary and exclude fat nonbinary people constantly especially in discussions of presentation" hope that helps

Implicit storytelling in two tweets:

Yeah. They did that. I bet the ‘clarification’ came as a result of some strong legal threats.

So be aware in the coming weeks that if your favorite actor reportedly says something shitty about the strike that makes your blood boil? Check the sources. There’s going to be a lot of uh, spin in the news.

i love working at an aquarium i just witnessed a grown man with children enter the freshwater gallery and loudly exclaim “oh shit, piranhas are REAL?!?”

the delights of working with the public continue! just heard someone announce over the radios “hey we have guest wearing an inappropriate shirt that needs to be spoken to, i last saw him in sharks & rays and the shirt says ‘do milfs not drugs’ if a supervisor could take care of that that’d be great cuz he’s not being cooperative” and then a good 5 minutes later i heard a supervisor radio for security backup

Me, in the summer heat, taking 2 points of fire damage every second: aeugh aeugh aeugh ough eough ough eaugh

virgin mary barbie doll from argentina

Bad news, cause OP either didn't know or chose to be vague about it: It's not an ACTUAL Barbie doll, it's part of an Argentinian art exhibit called Barbie: The Plastic Religion.

Good news: There's also a Saint Sebastian Ken

consider the sperm whale and the squid. an ancient rivalry that dates back millions of years. we know the whales eat the squids. we know the squids do not make it easy for them. we know this because of the scars the whales carry, scars on the outside of their body, and on the inside as well. how badly must you want something to endure wounds inside your mouth? inside your gut?

consider the whale, who is harmed by what sustains her. consider the squid, whose flesh is soft and delicious but refuses to go down easy.

This post is about lactose intolerance I can smell it.

Thoughts on being aroace

"average greek sea voyage takes eight months" factoid actually just statistical error. sea voyages around greece are very short. Bad-luck Odysseus, who tripped over a monster every five feet, had to sail in loop de loops around greece to avoid various annoyed deities, and took eleven years to sail 565 miles, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

Kinda obsessed w how Ganke was 0% on board to be Miles’ guy in the chair. Kid was Thee #1 Spiderman fan in the first movie but he absolutely refuses to get roped into this shit now. King of setting healthy boundaries.