(Waves this around in executives faces) wow it’s almost like profitable art happens without exploiting workers. Wow. Imagine that
Also it’s good. The movie is good. It’s nice to see something where you can tell the people working on it didn’t just love the movie, but had fun working on it. Let film making be fun instead of detrimental to a person’s physical and mental health
I’m gonna puke this makes me so happy to read. Idk. I just want more good news from the industry i’m going into
A petition was filed with the National Labor Relations Board today requesting a union election. The petition includes 66 staffers at Warner Bros. Animation and 22 at Cartoon Network, including roles like production manager, digital production assistant, IT technician, production coordinator, production assistant, design production coordinator, assistant production manager and senior assistant production manager.
They are involved in such Warner Bros. projects as Batman: The Caped Crusader, Harley Quinn and Teen Titans Go! and Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake, We Baby Bears and Craig of the Creek.
The workers also requested voluntary recognition from management at the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries.
A tweet was issued confirming the move, which was officially announced earlier on a joint Zoom call.
“Although many might not think it, production is a specialized skill; we might not be artists or writers, but what we bring to the table goes beyond traditional creativity and gets content on the air,” Warner Bros. Animation production manager Hannah Ferenc said in a statement about the organization effort. “Having lived through the existing state of the animation industry for the past seven years, I want to make sure that not only our current workers, but all those who choose to join us in the future, can feel secure in following their passion by earning livable wages and being treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.”
The Animation Guild has already established bargaining units on shows like Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites, The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad! It also is active at studios like Titmouse New York and L.A. and ShadowMachine. Establishment at Walt Disney Animation Studios is currently in progress.”
Reblogging this one bc it has options for indesign bc artists aren’t the only ones affected and graphic designers are getting played too and ignored in every one of these fucking posts
For reference and maybe I’m just stupid
But I had downloaded old versions of photoshop on my iMac. I also pay for photoshop.
Somehow it updated both versions of the software I have. Now neither will run on my Mac because it is too old. My 2012 version of photoshop should be fine and this is actually why I have it, but it won’t open any more.
I’m borrowing this from a thread I started on Twitter and I’m hoping maybe it will help someone else:
Responding to this meme comic:
What I could’ve used when I was young, and could not articulate well, was highly specific instruction on practice. If you paint a thing outside your window, and the colors always look wrong, looking through a punch hole on paper to see the color blob by itself helps. Everyone varies in their ability to see an object’s shape as it actually is vs how you THINK it’s shaped. Me drawing humans is still like this. I had to learn by trial & error that I needed to touch things or turn them around in 3 dimensions rather than 2d reference. I knew I needed to draw and paint over and over again ad nauseum. I didn’t understand that there were many more approaches to gaining how-to information beyond “look at stuff” and “look at pictures of stuff”.
It wasn’t until I had a really magnificent trio of art professors that I understood I should spend as little time looking at my paper as possible when making a mark. If I constantly went back to the reference way more than I did studying my own drawing I’d take the correct shape in more. They taught me how to isolate color. They taught me that lines in a line drawing represent where that object is curving out of view which helped me break out of caricature-only line thinking. They taught me to run my hands over things & see with touch as much as eyes. They taught me color theory from an angle of math & science so that even if I had great difficulty seeing/copying correct color I could still reason my way through the rules to arrive where I wanted the art to be. THIS is what I wanted to know as a kid & teen. It took truly great teachers to articulate my needs.
In short: pedagogy matters. HOW to teach art is a totally separate skill from art making & it’s unreasonable to expect artists to always have it. Ask REALLY specific questions. And ask your art teachers WHY some art works & some doesn’t. Good ones will truly change your world.
That first tiger emblazoned in my copy of “How to Draw Animals” by Jack Hamm was done sometime between 6th & 8th grade. That absolute unit is literally where I started vs where I am today. I did not have talent. Art did not come naturally to me. I am still far behind a number of peers my age in 2D media but that’s ok because it’s not a competition or a race. It just…is!
If you want to make art. Ask REALLY specific questions. If you want to fast track your learning because this does not come naturally…seriously take courses in it. Two out of three of my incredible teachers were at a community college. There’s even more very accessible courses for art online. You absolutely can teach yourself art; most of what I do is self taught. But no book or professional artist is going to be able to teach you as intuitively & helpfully as an art teacher.
My therapist, who is probably in her late 40′s, told me she never pursued more artistic opportunities in her younger years because one teacher told her she wasn’t a “good artist”. Now after taking art lessons the past few years she is pursuing an art therapy license.
I sit here and sing along to my iTunes remembering how I was punished as a child in elementary choir class which made me avoid choir like the plague as I grew older. I took band classes instead, which I stunk at, making me feel like I would always be a failure musically. Today, I can for the most part carry a tune and even harmonize, and can make up songs pretty quickly.
We need to remember that the arts are meant to be FUN, subjective, and a form of self expression instead of telling kids they are “good” or “bad”, “talented” and “not talented”. The arts are not meant to be graded.
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