They also short-changed the staff by advertising each "book" as one season when in reality there were all part of the initial batch. This sort of thing is all too common in animation these days.
Netflix is doing the same thing with
The Cuphead Show, apparently:
TL;DW: Apparently "Season 2" is actually the second half of Season 1 to avoid paying high salaries for the animators and writers.
How does artificially splitting a season into two parts screw over the animators and writers? I assume they’re still doing the same amount of work overall, except it’s in one sitting instead of being re-contracted for the second season.
Apparently, Netflix ordered one batch of episodes to avoid giving said animators and writers pay raises and benefits, then split it in half and advertised it as a separate season to make it seem like more than it actually is:
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It does seem a little bizarre that Cuphead is getting a second season so quickly. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the people behind it love the game and we’re excited to make this, but the second season is supposed to come out in the next
FOUR months?
I might not know the animation industry as I thought I did, but this just seems rushed to me for some reason. Not even my favorite anime getting renewed quickly for a second and third season seems as suspicious, and that’s just a completely different story in of itself.
Netflix has been doing this with all their animated series. The same was done to Kid Cosmic.
If that's so, my question is, why did nobody make as big of a stink about it then? Not even with nu She-Ra, which had five "seasons". My guess is they're being opportunistic grifters, as always. Netflix has been doing it for God knows how long, but NOW, suddenly it's a big issue? Because of a fucking hashtag? I dunno, I'm getting shades of #MeToo from this #NewDeal4Animation shit. And we all know how well the former turned out.....
i get that vibe too, especally when they all repeat the whole "animaion is the most streamed thing on streaming services blah blah blah" but ignore that all the stuff that does get streams are CGI animated movies and old shows, not the calarts shit they make
The first time I noticed this practice was in 2018 when I learned that
Voltron: Legendary Defender had seven seasons under its belt at the time, despite having come out only two years before; however, the seasons themselves ranged from six to thirteen episodes each* (keep in mind that an average season in a U.S. TV series is about twenty episodes long, give or take). Upon further research, I discovered that this was done for the North American release, but for the South Korean release, the series was divided into three seasons of twenty-six episodes each; however, this was only after the original North American run.
Now, I am no expert in the practices of the Western Animation Industry, let alone Western Entertainment as a whole, but the reason for this is because binge-watching is now a norm for audiences, and when audiences have reached the end of a series, their interest will wain within a few months as new things come round the the corner. The problem with this, however, is that it puts pressure on animators, scriptwriters, producers, etc. to meet the quota for a number of episodes to put out in time for the official release, and then work on the episodes that have yet to be release, which only screws up any and all progress on the show's development, which is what happened to V:LD that resulted in the series suffering from narrative issues and character development because of these changes (of course, the main complaint people have with the series is about how it "buries the gays" because Shiro had a boyfriend who's killed off only minutes after being introduced)
*Seasons 1, 2, 7 & 8 were thirteen episodes long, while Seasons 3 & 6 were seven episodes long, and Seasons 4 and 5 were six episodes long.
Lot of people are wanting to speak up against shady shit in animation now that there's the opportunity to change something. A lot of it is true, and it goes back a long way.
I'm not saying that it isn't true. I'm saying "the opportunity to change something" has BEEN there since social media's inception, and yet, not until today, when this conveniently timed "movement" shows up outta absolutely nowhere, do people finally take advantage of said opportunity. Hard to think that there aren't ulterior motives here.
It's been going on for a few months, and there wasn't much of an opportunity to change things until the union negotiations began. When you see an opportunity, you strike, and this is the moment.
Hopefully it won’t be co-opted for petty bullshit…oh who am I kidding?
^This is precisely what I was trying to convey with my earlier posts. Might've started with noble intentions, but much like #MeToo, this movement has all the makings for opportunistic grifters to co-opt it for minor shit. After all, "the road to hell is often paved with noble intentions."
Japan is still worse, though - the burnout is worse, the workload is worse... and there's no real way to fix a lot of the problems. Unions are not a thing there. The pay in America, at least, is better than what you get in Japan.
And what do you propose to fix
that issue, Bill? Because while Japanese and East Asian/Oriental Animation Industries have problems, they are largely epidemic to
them; Western Animation Industries (i.e. U.S., Canada, South and Central America, and both Western and Eastern Europe) problems, on the other hand, have been pandemic, in that what happens to them affects everyone. So while animators and such are seeking gain more rights and improvements in the work environment, you will have the chucklefucks who'll ruin it for everyone with their stupid petty antics and you are only cheering them on as they bring everyone down. If some good could come out of this, even a minuscule one, it could lead to reformation in the workforce for Eastern Animation, though take this with a big
. Just remember
that doesn't matter how many fags, dykes, troons, niggers, spics, or gooks they add to their production teams even on an "executive" level, what matters is that there is a human shield in affect to defend these companies and their shitty practices, even if unintended.
Speaking of Disney, it seems they're getting dragged by a bunch of their staff over for giving money to Politicians who supported Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill, and generally being one-sided when it comes to LGBT issues.
And now Dana Terrace has made a video response on the whole thing.
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Boy is this livestream gonna be a shitshow if any of her previous streams are anything to go by...
I'd insert that meme about choosing to push a button. You know the one?
Support multi billion dollar company that makes product.
Support the LGBTQIA cause and boycott product.
It'd laugh if I could remember how...or maybe the idea has just become too much of a cliche to be funny anymore.
I say boycott the product.
You would think that’s what they would do and it’s what one would do if they feel strongly about this subject. But as seen with past controversies once a new product is pushed out people will glue themselves to that and eventually everything will be swept under the rug. Like clockwork.
For once I respect Disney.
keep supporting the "evil capitalistic boomer corporation" or stop shlicking to cartoon lesbians??? man, I wish I was an American libtard sometimes.
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The whole reason for this protest by Disney employees, animators, and producers is because Disney isn't acknowledging Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Bill' (as called by Pro-Queer activists because it limits, if not outright prohibits, teaching of LGBTQAICUP++ shit to kids); now regardless of your opinion of the Bill itself*, what matters is that The Walt Disney Company's lack of a response towards this has sparked outrage from its faggot employees like Dana Terrace and Joaquin Baldwin, because Florida is home to one of their largest parks and the site of many of their urban development projects like the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (not to be confuse with the E.P.C.O.T. Theme Park), which Disney isn't going to retaliate too strongly, versus Georgia, which passed a bill prohibiting troons from using the toilets of the other sex, and they pulled production out of the state with little trouble. Personally, fuck them both and more importantly fuck industry-cucks and the faggots that they support.
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IMO, faggots and trannies of all walks are a blight to American Society, let alone Western Civilisation, and it would be best to remove them immediately, as well as the liberals and leftists that enable them
the whole issue with this is that Disney isn't taking any
