http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/unpaid-artists-update-partially-paid/ vfx, mograph, and production news Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:41:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/unpaid-artists-update-partially-paid/#comment-934 David Crawford Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:30:39 +0000 http://www.fxguide.com/?post_type=quicktakes&p=20583#comment-934 Good on you Dave Rand and the people that have worked hard to get this story out there. It is terrible that such an occurrence took place. It used to happen in the 90's at smaller facilities (boutique VFX places) but never large organizations such as Meteor. The only issue I have here is that it is not clear what the action was that prompted the closure and subsequent non payment to artists? Was it Discovery that didn't pay or was it a mis management issue from Meteor's side? I will do some research.... Hopefully this will strengthen artists worldwide. It also reminds me of the mistake that VFX artists did when they had the option of joining the camera department union in the early 80's. If they had, this would not have occurred. Sincerest luck, DC. Good on you Dave Rand and the people that have worked hard to get this story out there. It is terrible that such an occurrence took place. It used to happen in the 90′s at smaller facilities (boutique VFX places) but never large organizations such as Meteor. The only issue I have here is that it is not clear what the action was that prompted the closure and subsequent non payment to artists? Was it Discovery that didn’t pay or was it a mis management issue from Meteor’s side? I will do some research….
Hopefully this will strengthen artists worldwide. It also reminds me of the mistake that VFX artists did when they had the option of joining the camera department union in the early 80′s. If they had, this would not have occurred.
Sincerest luck, DC.

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