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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kingmongoose7877@lemmy.film to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

From the linked article…

In a day and age when literally everyone connected to a film production gets a credit, from craft services to on-set teachers of child actors to random “production babies” who didn’t even work on a film, it is utterly incomprehensible that vfx artists, whose work makes possible the final images that appear onscreen, are routinely omitted from screen credits.

I can attest to this, having worked in the field. Most of the work in TV and cinema goes uncredited, with team leaders or just the post houses at most being recognized with an end credit placement (by contract, of course). I understand totally that it is always a team effort and hardly any of the viewing public sits through the entire end credits roll. I totally get it. But when it happens that you are included, that small token of recognition does remind you why you're doing 12-hour days erasing power lines, making day look like night, adding/removing people and/or signage from shots they weren't supposed to be in and pushing greenscreened people in front of moving cars.

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[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that I don't agree with. You have far more right to a credit, but that's part of the current lack of respect for VFX crews in the industry.

And as far as the credits lasting too long on films, well it gives the cleaners some music to work to. More seriously, it's probably the likes of Marvel putting scenes at the end of credits that causes the problem. It stops the cleaners getting access.

Personally I think they should keep the credits to a certain level and above, but across-the-board. No lunch boy credit for sure.

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