Major Pixar Layoffs, Long-Expected, Now Underway in Restructuring (Exclusive)
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Roughly 14 percent of the workforce is cut as part of Disney's companywide cost-cutting measures. The move is the biggest reduction in Pixar's history.

The move, less than reported 20%, was delayed because of production schedules & studio not focusing on direct-to-streaming series but on its films.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 months ago

    yawn the economics don’t matter, this about beginning the process of completing commodifying CGI work so conceptually anybody doing the labor of animation can constantly have the threat of AI replacing held over them.

    In this sense, as I have said many times before, it doesn’t matter if AI works well in this capacity or not, it only matters that AI facilitates a permanent reduction in the leverage animators and computer graphics artists have to fight for a decent quality of life and living wage.