Hollywood Animators Try to Save Their Jobs...

The Animation Guild thinks the end might be near for the industry, and they're getting ready to "fight like hell" for another contract featuring favorable working conditions, better pay, and protection from AI. However, the industry is contracting and outsourcing... will they get what they want? Or will movies like 'Inside Out 2' show the value of animation to the suits?

Hollywood animators are fighting to protect their jobs from being replaced by AI and outsourcing, and are negotiating for fair wages and working conditions.

00:00 The Animation Guild is worried about AI, layoffs, and outsourcing, but believes AI should assist, not replace, human workers.

01:51 Animators rally in Burbank to negotiate new contract, expressing concerns about AI replacing human creativity in the industry.

03:11 Hollywood animators are fighting to save their jobs from being replaced by AI, as they believe the human touch in animation is irreplaceable.

04:35 Hollywood animators are fighting to save their jobs by urging studios to provide fair wages and working conditions, and to avoid outsourcing and replacing them with AI.

06:11 Hollywood animators are facing overwork and need to negotiate for better working conditions, and the success of "Inside Out 2" may give them leverage to do so.

07:29 Unions negotiate to protect animation jobs from AI impact, while Disney outsources work to North Korea instead of independent studios.

09:08 Hollywood animators fear AI, layoffs, and outsourcing, but hope for increased demand for animation.

10:56 Animation workers should demand what they deserve and advocate for change, but pushing too hard may result in job outsourcing or layoffs.

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[ItBeHowItBe]

To be fair. It doesn’t seem like Hollywood really understands human emotion right now either

[sebastiantrias]

My advice for these animators is to abandon Hollywood, and try create your own Indy projects.

[googleisevil]

The issue always was Hollywood, not animators. Animators for years thought if they made it to Hollywood, they were set for life but never realized that Hollywood is just a place.

The future should not be written by Hollywood but by indie animators and their fans. The internet offers limitless protentional for success. We don't need Hollywood.

[ASoberBear]

I cant believe we went from Treasure Planet, Prince of Egypt, Anastasia, Atlantis & Lilo and Stitch to activist branches we have now. I do not recognize the land I grew up in and all we get is disdain from creators while protecting PDF files & bully activists.


They deserve everything they are getting.

[RagingGoldenEagle]

It'll be just like the film actor's guild. They'll get their demands met, and the 1/3 of them still employed in a year are gonna love it!

[gloriathomas]

I personally known people who works in animation and have been asked to relocate to Spain, France or Singapore to maintain their jobs. And yes much of the animation jobs these days are done in France or Spain, case production for the Mario Bros movie was largely done in France.

[Demonheart]

Animators in California would have better luck trying to form their own little studios and making animations for whoever is willing to pay them or make their own original content and try to be successful.

Also they should consider getting another job to pay the bills because animation will not make enough money.

[masonr]

The truth is, it is getting harder and harder to have a home [housing], let alone a table, and food to put on that table. If people don't have money, they can not put money in things that are not the necessities. How does someone earn an income, if all the jobs have gone overseas, or have been eliminated through technology?

[Meleena]

it's a sad state of affairs. I graduated from my animation program in 2020 and then went right into my video game animation and development program and graduated in 2022 and haven't had any luck. It's even more disheartening when I ran into my old prof (she has been in the industry for years and her work is amazing) and she is having no luck getting a job either. It's very bleak. The industry will--and should--collapse. The monopoly the giants have on it is too much and its toppling over. I have hope that it will lead into a new age for the industry, even if its just small like indie studios for a while. it will definitely be a dark age for a bit.

[doughauck]

My daughter is one year away from graduating with a degree in animation. I would very much like her to get a job and get paid. Yes, like all college kids, she wants to work at an indie start-up, but the adult in me says maybe 1 in 1000 graduating animators is going to start off at an indie studio.

So no, as much as recent Hollywood fare bothers me, I don't want to see the big animation studios fail, and I don't want animators to wind up on the street.

[MaztRPwn]

The animators need to learn from channels like Devil Artemis and Otaku Versus. They can be fine without Hollywood working for smaller studios or forming their own.

[Hypernautz]

Good luck to them outsourcing more Jobs. I work in the animation industry. They cant even afford to outsource to China or Korea anymore its too expensive. Everytime you outsource, you are giving them the tools to develop their own animation. The better they become, the more bargaining power they have on the table.

[kevinbyrne]

Animators are heading for extinction. Striking during a recession -- while studios try to save money by sending animation work out of the country -- is not a good idea.

[JohnDoe-wqeu]

The top three reasons the industry is the way it is in no particular order are:
1) Over hiring during covid and over hiring in general.
2) The calarts / woke takeover of animation in general throughout the industry.
3) AI. And everything related to it's proliferation including but not limited to outsourcing.
There are plenty of more reasons for the current situation but these are definitely the main ones.

[chenchen]

Japan and foreign animation industry ate their lunch and have good reputation to the point even the existence of certain artificial the demand of real people animating based from consumer demand still stable.

[carlfromtheoc]

The Pandemic showed that people can work remotely - which includes animators. Back around 2015 there was a panel at San Diego Comic-con by this dude who was using his iPad and a couple of Adobe programs to do coloring for comic book panels. He noted withj a decent internet connection he can work from anywhere in the world. Things have moved forward, so doing animation work should also be done in a similar manner.

As for outsourcing to North Korea, if knowingly done can incur the wrath of the US Attorney General. Technically, the USA is still at war with North Korea, with just a really long cease fire agreementy in place - so technically, aiding North Korea could be considered treason.

[MudkipWithShades]

Glitch Productions shows you don’t need Hollywood anymore. They should inspire us to go indie and make our own animations that isn’t filled with messaging trash.

[MoreSonicRobot]

Put studios in the 49 STATES THAT ARE IN THE UNITED STATES!

The US is a big country you could find cheaper methods within the borders of the US.

[ChaosAngelZero]

Hayao Miyazaki was also anti-computers and anti-digital drawing/inking/painting, and yet Studio Ghibli moved on and adopted all of those technologies anyway...

[mr.dccomics]

Long live the 90s...the greatest era of western animation.