Angry Public Responds to Digital Domain’s John Textor
So, to every visual effects professional globally, demand what you have earned. Demand respect for your skills. Demand your experience be valued. Demand a fair wage for your skilled work. Demand to be treated like the professional you are.
And to you Mr. Textor, continue to devalue the work of visual effects professionals.
Continue to believe that you can get by on the cheap on your labor.
Continue to attack and destroy people's professions and livelihoods.
And I will make it my mission to destroy Digital Domain.
Remember Mr. Textor, the years of experience, skills, and tireless efforts of the visual effects professionals that you are trying to drive out of the business have brought your company its awards and accolades. Do you expect many will want to work with you when Digital Domain does not have any professional artists to create award winning work?
When Digital Domain closes and you move to another shop, it doesn’t matter. Whatever shop you go to Mr. Textor, we will not work with you.
Any shop you are associated with will close because of you.
You have pushed our backs up against the wall. We have nothing to lose in this battle, Mr. Textor. You've shown us your version of the future, and we professionals are not a part of it. You have a $10 million dollar investment in Digital Domain stock.
By the time we're done, it will be worthless.
Digital Domain will be remembered for their amazing work, and at one time being a studio artists wanted to work for, but every visual effects professional will remember John Textor as the man who tried to destroy the visual effects industry.
tang1039
visual effects professional
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This article should have been proof read before before being published - specifically the several missing start and end quotes in the "quoted" part of the article.
That's the first intelligence response I've seen regarding this matter thus far.
Realize that when you are calling for a boycott of a company, you are punishing the 1000 employees that are not John Textor even more than the man you dislike.
BOYCOTT DIGITAL DOMAIN, TRADITION STUDIOS.... AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, FSU
"Angry public?" That's an angry VFX professional. Angry public would be when the waitress at IHOP says, "What's with that guy Textor at Digital Domain? What a jerk." Just wanted to be clear on that before we get started here. I don't disagree with tang1039. I think what John Textor is proposing is not in the interests of the industry and certainly isn't going to make it easy to maintain the quality that DD has become know for. On the other hand, if labor is free and you've got enough of them working, you keep giving them notes and have then do it over and over and over until it reaches an acceptable level. I can see a few ways to make his proposal work and maintain the quality. Or at least minimize the impact on quality. It won't be completely free and that kind of tutoring takes a toll on the Supervisors who will be overseeing the newbies, but it to could be made to work. I don't like the idea, but I understand it. Okay, get it out of you system. Call me names. Call me a sell out. FIne. Now I can get to my point. This thing about this letter that really bothers me is the signature at the bottom. Or rather lack there of. Maybe I'm out of touch. Maybe the identity of tang1039 is well known to everyone. Somehow I suspect that isn't the case. I sympathize and even agree with some of what tang says, but come on man, if you'e going to take a stand like that and call the peasants to revolt, sign your name to it. When you make statement as bald and forceful as you did and then don't sign it, your credibility isn't is really on firm ground. This is exactly why we never get anywhere when things like this happen. I could go on, but I've probably pissed off enough people. Really what it gets down to is this. John Textor's plan represents the worst that this industry can be. It's just pure corporate thinking with no room left over for love of the craft or respect for the artists. Tang1039's letter in response is also pretty typical. It's a little more forceful than most and for that I give tang1039 some credit. But until some serious players on the creative side of VFX step up and put their names out there and say, "We're not going to put up with the kind of crap," and DD finds that they can't bring in the high level VFX Sups and Animation Directors the movie Producers and Directors want to work with, the John Textor's of the world are are going to keep rolling right along.
Ouch.
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