People have been advocating for the return of bloopers/gag reels in the end credits of live action movies and I raise you: we need to also bring that back for animation 👆🏾 I need Spiderverse fake bloopers where Miles forgets his lines and Pavitr is seen dangling from a wire in front of a green screen somewhere in the background
Strike authorization has passed by 98.32% and SAG leadership are returning to negotiate with game companies to secure a fair deal for voice actors and mocap actors
This DOES NOT MEAN that a strike is happening, it simply means that members are willing to go on strike and leadership can use this as leverage when negotiating. The deadline to come to a deal is is 9/28. If a deal is not reached THEN will there be a strike.
Please remember that the best outcome is that there is no strike and companies simply give workers a fair deal. A strike is a last resort.
While this does not directly affect developers in the game industry, that does not mean it's not important. Voice actors have been treated like shit in the game industry and are under threat by AI. The more people that are unionized, the easy it is for others to unionize. Do not dismiss it just because it is not developers.
The companies that would be affected by a hypothetical strike are:
Activision Productions Inc.,
Blindlight LLC,
Disney Character Voices Inc.,
Electronic Arts Productions Inc.,
Epic Games, Inc.,
Formosa Interactive LLC,
Insomniac Games Inc.,
Take 2 Productions Inc.,
VoiceWorks Productions Inc., and
WB Games Inc.
At the moment, no boycott has been called so there is nothing for consumers or anyone not involved with SAG-AFTRA to do, other than to be supportive on social media and report unauthorized AI recreation of voice actors work. Otherwise sit tight.
I'd really appreciate it if people who reblogged the last post also reblog the update
Got the beginnings of a motion capture pipeline working. With just a video recording from my phone, in a few clicks I can get something like this!
Still needs cleaning up (there's a fair bit of clipping atm), but it's a promising start!
Ashley Johnson sing and motion capture "Through the Valley" for The Last Of Us Part 2 teaser.
This is the first thing I ever saw of TLOU. Without knowing anything about the game, I felt her fear, I felt her anger, how her voice was shaking. I felt everything. Being able to portray these emotions so amazingly just hit me so hard it was unforgettable.
it baffles me as an animator that people are surprised that sonic prime uses exaggerated squash and stretch when his art style is literally a modern rubber-hose style: an art style made for bouncy exaggerated movements