“This marks the first time visual-effects professionals have banded together to demand the same rights, wage protections, and professional watchdog oversight enjoyed by workers in almost every other segment of the entertainment industry.”
About 90 percent of films in release use VFX, and the people who make it still cannot claim paid overtime or health care. Marvel releases five movies and four shows in 2023 alone and is known in the trade as the industry’s biggest bully. A supermajority of its 52-person on-set crew signed IATSE cards. Disney did not respond. Disney sells the CGI spectacle and treats the people who make it as disposable.