Disney To Terminate Brazilian-Born Lead Creature Modeler For Not Getting Vaccinated
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Fucks sake, this is going to be one of the biggest intelligence drains on companies in decades if it actually goes forwards.
The smartest people are the ones questioning the narrative, and they are the ones being forced out.
We're going to reach a point where the dumbest people are flying your planes, making your food, producing your entertainment and creating your news.
Idiocracy is going to hit within our lifetime at this rate.
Big organizations treat employees like replaceable cogs in the machine. Which for creative or highly skilled endeavors is really dumb. They kill the goose that lays the golden eggs (or allow it to be killed) over and over either because they don't realize it lays golden eggs, because they think they can easily find another such goose, or because they think they were responsible for its creation and therefore they can create another one. Arguably this is the primary advantage that we have on our side: an ability and flexibility to treat people as valuable parts of a whole.
Apocryphal story: where I used to work there was a particular product that was very delicate to assemble and for whatever reason assembly couldn't be automated, and they had an assembler who had been doing that job for something like 50 years. Then she retired, and as I recall they had to discontinue that product, because no one else could do it without a bunch of rework that made the product unprofitable.
Ayn Rand villains are more believable than the way companies and our government currently run
Sometimes I wonder if the push to... for lack of a better word, villainize cartoon villains as "unrealistic" is a cover for the fact that the world is full of cartoonishly evil people.
It's not even about how organizations behave. Yes, organizations exhibit "emergent behavior" - the whole acts independently of each part's desires - but really I think the problem is the managerial class and the culture of changing jobs every few years.
There's this entire class of upper management who keep jumping companies every few years. A board of directors hires a new CEO, the new CEO makes a bunch of retarded decisions, but he can convince the completely disinterested board that these decisions will really pay off in the long term. Short term damage isn't all that bad, the board is convinced the short-term losses will lead to the company skyrocketing, and by the time the long-term terrible consequences of the CEO's rule of retardation reveal themselves, the guy already cashed in his stock and is in the top management of a different company. The board is dumbfounded, and so they hire the next CEO who just quit his job in a completely unrelated company and now he has a great PowerPoint plan to save theirs.
Management only works when managers come from people who used to work "on the line", literally or figuratively. Professional managers are one of the many cancers currently destroying capitalism and it needs to stop.
They won't stop even if it hurts them because 100% of employees being fungible is the corporate wet dream.
That's been the case for a hot minute. Hence KotakuInAction.
That's been true for decades.
More like the lego movie, with the intelligent forced to provide ideas to the state against their will.
Communism.. did that. Purging intellectuals.
HE WORKS FROM HOME AT LEAST UNTIL JANUARY!
I mean if the Daily Wire can get Gina, I don't see why they wouldn't also branch into animation
Animation isn't just cartoons, everything from car chases to firefights are done with 3d modeling and CG animation these days. Even a studio only interested in grim drama can use modelers and animators to nail the tragic backstory boating/car/plane accident scene.
It’s so dumb. He can literally do his job at home.
And in some cases before all Covid was a thing working from home literally saved animated films like when an animator took home a copy of Toy Story 2 then the studio deleted their copy at work. TWICE!
They didn’t exactly take it home. The system was set to back up to their home computer so they could review daily’s during an extended period out of office ( can’t remember if it was a child’s birth or a sick relative) But cg jobs can literally be done anywhere with a stable power grid, powerful enough computer and a descent internet connection. no excuse to fire him. just make them work from home. No sense losing an employee because they don’t want to take a drug.
They weren't meant to have access or a copy IIRC when the story came out. The fact they did while against whatever protocol in place meant the movie wasn't completely and utterly wiped because of incompetence since it was deleted not just once but twice from the main company server[s].
Directly from an article from inside the magic and matches up from what I can remember reading in the “The Pixar Story.” Some of the scene and asset files were still deleted and not backed up on her computer and ended up being lost.
Either way as long as the employee is abiding by their NDA and are not filling their machine with viruses there is no harm in them working from home.
I imagine with the types you’d work with at Disney that working from home would be an improvement
Ah, fuck, this is going to be really hard feeling sorry or angry for this guy. I mean on the one hand there's Pacific Rim (fuck yeah), on the other hand, TFA. Dude, talk about a mixed bag.
Just an artist. I don't think the aesthetic sincerity of the setpieces were the primary complaints about TFA.
If anything, the visuals of TFA were the only value it had. (And they were still sub-par for Star Wars, though I doubt that's the artists' fault.)
As CyberGuy64 comments the visuals of the Disney Trilogy are about the only thing that are good. Ben Swolo stopping the blaster shot in mid air was certainly a memorable event and while the concept was utterly pants on head retarded the Hyperspace ramming after effect in TLJ looked great. It was just part of a completely shit movie and went against so much established lore that in context it made zero sense.
He works for ILM right? He doesn’t write the movies, just gets told to make this look pretty