#IP Training

[nokkiart]

As a long time httyd fan who has been heavily involved in the fandom since the first movie and who has spent years working in the animation industry, I’d like to share my thoughts on the new httyd movie. Keep in mind, this is just my personal opinion and it's completely fine if you disagree with me. I just want to say a little something about all this that really bothers me.

The core reason that Dreamworks and Universal made this film is that it’s a quick and easy cash grab for them. Thats it. They don’t care about telling a good story or making a “better” version of the original movie for fans or even having an accurate portrayal of the characters/story. It’s purely about money. They know that fans of the original film will go see this movie, whether it’s good or bad. And those guaranteed ticket sales are all that matter to the studios. And with Universal, it has the added bonus of being a cheap promotional and merchandising opportunity for the new HTTYD land in Orlando that opens around the same time that the film is premiering in theaters.

And to help the studios make even more money out of this, they are using non-unionized VFX companies around the world to make this film, so that they can get cheaper labor and push the artists to do more that would be against American union standards. The same thing has probably happened with the costuming and fabrication for the filming, hence why the costumes look un-weathered and the sets look cheap. They don’t want to pay for the extra time and effort that it would take to make the practical bits of the production look good.

On top of all this, Dreamworks has already announced that they’re shutting down all their in-house animation projects in favor of using AI and outsourcing projects to cheaper international non-union studios.

With all this in mind, I just can’t support this film and I will not be seeing it in theaters. And I hope that others will do the same.

The only way to stop all these horrible “live action” remakes (which are actually just realistically animated remakes) is to not buy tickets to see them. Money is all that matters to these studios, and if they don’t make any money off of it, then they will stop and try something different. Maybe they'll even go back to focusing on original stories!

That’s the power that we hold as audiences. Our wallets help drive the decisions that the executives make. So support unique storytelling and gorgeous cinematography in movies. Support indie films. Support animators as they're fighting for fair pay and better contracts. But don't support a mediocre shot-for-shot remake riding on the coattails of an already successful film.

And I just want to wrap all this up by saying I have absolutely no hate towards anyone that has worked on the new film. Toothless looks incredible and I know the artists and creatives involved in this project did the best they could with what they were given.

But I also know that those same artists have so many more brilliant ideas that they would’ve loved to be given the creative freedom to do. I just wish hollywood would be willing to take a chance and let them do it.

[palatteflags]

Trains and Rambley Raccoon from Indigo Park based moodboard~ For an anon!! Hope you like this!

Want one? Send an ask! -mod Jay

[thoughtportal]

an important factor to remember in the writers strike. So many industries want to turn the worker into a gig worker with no protections and no mentoring system. 

[bmblboop]

Warner Bros. stop deleting things challenge

[pcharming7]

The first time I realized that digital piracy was morally correct was when Final Space got cancelled. I learned that it wasn’t just cancelled, it was completely scrubbed from all streaming services. As in, you straight up can’t watch it legally anywhere. And then the same thing happened to Infinity Train, and now a bunch of WB movies like Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme have been actively destroyed before even seeing the light of day.

Regardless of your personal preference, it is supremely fucked up that any work of art is now in danger of basically being unpersoned by some executive who’s only motivated by money.

[ipcearn]

The Ocean Saga has been my favorite ever since it released but the Thunder Saga literally came and drop kicked it out of the way

[poisoned-pearls]

watching seal videos for research (<-lying) is so wild because why are you guys just standing like ten feet from a fucking leopard seal. Those dude will fuck you up get AWAY

[darksideofthemamon]

Exhausted from suddenly debating about the ethics and legalities of generative AI (specifically on arts) with someone what a wonderful reminder that the future is bleak what a wonderful reminder that corporations will screw you over if they can and most people generally don't value creatives or creativity (in general, regardless of field) think happy thoughts Mamon just play LOTRO or something

[prolibytherium]

I think there's plenty of ethical concerns re: AI art but most people criticizing it fundamentally don't understand how the image generation processes work and are imagining it as very literal 'theft', or are operating on kneejerk reactions about """""Real Art""""" that aren't fundamentally different than any other attempts to separate 'true art' from 'fake lazy art' throughout history, so the conversation is kind of doomed to be bad and annoying from the start

[thesarkycoder]

2004: piracy is destroying our creative industries. The unauthorised use of our intellectual property discourages people from generating new media and devalues everyone's work.

2024: Oh you wrote/ drew/ animated/ filmed/ sung something and uploaded it to our website? We'll sell that shit to the highest bidder to train their garbage generator lol

[softgrungeprophet]

UNIONIZED, BABY!

[l0rd-0f-c0ws]

I frequently feel completely isolated no matter how much I talk to people. So that's fun

[curly-fried]

I legit think that Karla Ortiz is a coorpate pawn to redirect workers anger and fear of automatisation to a strengthening copyright law. Bc this is harmless and even beneficial to the capitalists of animation studios and other art companies.

[inceptionpositivity]

@The Waiting for a Train Server - So welcoming and friendly! I love what a vibrant community is there.

[pigeonneaux]

Me yesterday at 3am : "oh no i forgot to get my train ticket for tomorrow! Better get it now teehe"

Me this morning, delightfully waken up at 7am by a chainsaw and someone putting a glass down too loud : bweh

La sncf with their silly emails : oh we deleted your train :)))) non refundable btw we hate you personally

I am going to eat glass

[bre3zycoins]

thinking about that one person from ap3 that commented like, fucking KILL yourself youre not funny, on hi gongus