I'm thinking about manga and anime and how workers there are being pressed to make an ever increasing amount of "content."Īs an artist in America, shit feels bleak. I'm also thinking about comics, and how Comixology is completing it's absorption into Amazon, with plenty of growing pains. I'd still like to, but from what it sounds like, I would be struggling if I had earlier. All sorts of different jobs getting put onto boarders, production crew, color designers, technical producers, and more jobs being affected.Īnd, just to be clear, I don't work in animation. Time for storyboarding getting cut from 8 weeks (which was tight already) to 4 weeks. Studios make something one season that gets released in "batches," so they don't have to pay for another season. For the past however many years, companies that were doing streaming were able to hire workers for less because they were "new media" and weren't proven.įast forward, skip some details, and now we're at the point where jobs have been cut, combined, and pushed onto other departments, while seeing no pay increases, no parity with their live action counterparts, all while animation workers in many different roles have carried media over the pandemic. Right now, workers are trying to negotiate with studios about getting a better deal for animation workers.
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