alright, so critics are praising this movie for its “low budget” animation turning over a profit, but as an animation student, let me tell you how much of a scam this all is
how is 30 million USD low budget
1988′s Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo has an estimated $10,000,000 in it’s production, that includes equipment and pay and commercialization and production, and is considered by most to be the best-animated movie of all time, with a huge budget put into animation, an animated film with a low budget would be something like that Lord of the Rings animated movie from the 70s, or a Ralph Bakshi movie, only a couple million dollars.
Digital animation has advanced to the point it’s effectively cheaper, faster, and easier to produce than hand drawn cel animation, providing less animators and less cost. There are even reports that half of the Sausage Party animators were overworked and barely paid at all, too.
This has me to believe that most of the $30,000,000 didn’t go into the actual production, pay, advertising, the real number would be around $6-8 million dollars, the rest of the money being embezzled to producers like Seth Rogan, Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon, Kyle Hunter, Ariel Shaffir, and Evan Goldberg and the studio itself
in short, even though they had a $30,000,000 budget, which is 3 times the amount of the best-animated film of all time, cut down by 30% due to digital animation technology efficiency…….. they haven’t even paid or credited most of their animators, and even overworked them,most of the money went to Seth Rogan and his cronies in a classic Adam Sandler/Happy Maddison Productions style Hollywood-embezzlement scheme
one of the biggest fears for American animators is the industry turning into piss-poor conditions, like seen in Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, China, and Taiwan, where animators work in sweatshop conditions, are overworked, and get little pay for a job that requires a 4-year college Masters degree
PLEAAAAAAAAAAAASE actually spread this around, because not only is this just a shit practice at all, it damages a relatively-small, niche career type by encouraging massive budget animated movies while the actual animators themselves receive less wages, and more hours, and if these blockbuster budget animated films are made, and they don’t receive the money needed to actually turn a profit, film studios will abandon animation studios. Unions have never worked well in the animation industry, since it’s a niche industry and not something large scale like a factory manufacturer, with practices like Walt Disney Studios actually accusing Unionized animators of being communists during the McCarthy trials of the 1950s, or studios dropping entire animation departments as a whole and replacing them with outsourced animators in Taiwan. You’ll be really helping an entire industry improve in quality just by the general public knowing how much of a toxic practice this is.
update, animators for the film were reviewed by Cartoon Brew and discuss how horrible the conditions were for animators for this film:
Should Democrats fail to retake the Senate in 2016, it is unlikely that they will get another opportunity until at least 2020.
It’s incredibly important that we place attention not only to the presidential candidates, but to the Senators and Representatives that are up for election this year.
Me: oh yea, sorry about that. Let me apply “harder” this time. I’ll be sure to write my contact info extra “hard” this time. I’ll make sure to touch up my resume and make it hella “hard” this time around too.
preach
Adults: You just need to hit the pavement, knock on some doors, call the hiring manager!
Every job application ever: PLEASE NO UNSOLICITED VISITS OR PHONE CALLS.
Fact: Our reception pool forwards the names of people who call unsolicited on to HR, who puts the names on a DO NOT HIRE, CANNOT FOLLOW DIRECTIONS list.
I’ve seen this image going around, and I feel compelled to point out that it’s only half-right. It’s true that high heels were originally a masculine fashion, but they weren’t originally worn by butchers - nor for any other utilitarian purpose, for that matter.
High heels were worn by men for exactly the same reason they’re worn by women today: to display one’s legs to best effect. Until quite recently, shapely, well-toned calves and thighs were regarded as an absolute prerequisite for male attractiveness. That’s why you see so many paintings of famous men framed to show off their legs - like this one of George Washington displaying his fantastic calves:
… or this one of Louis XIV of France rocking a fabulous pair of red platform heels (check out those thighs!):
… or even this one of Charles I of England showing off his high-heeled riding boots - note, again, the visual emphasis on his well-formed calves:
In summary: were high heels originally worn by men? Yes. Were they worn to keep blood off their feet? No at all - they were worn for the same reason they’re worn today: to look fabulous.
so then how did they become a solo feminine item of attire?
A variety of reasons. In France, for example, high heels fell out out of favour in the court of Napoleon due to their association with aristocratic decadence, while in England, the more conservative fashions of the Victorian era regarded it as indecent for a man to openly display his calves.
But then, fashions come and go. The real question is why heels never came back into fashion for men - and that can be laid squarely at the feet of institutionalised homophobia. Essentially, heels for men were never revived because, by the early 20th Century, sexually provocative attire for men had come to be associated with homosexuality; the resulting moral panic ushered in an era of drab, blocky, fully concealing menswear in which a well-turned calf simply had no place - a setback from which men’s fashion has yet to fully recover.
FASHION HISTORY IS HUMAN HISTORY OK
Thank you, history side of tumblr. That “stay out of blood” thing has been driving me mad.
Wait. So, you’re telling me that the reason straight boys dress horribly is because they’re not over a 100 year old gay panic?
You’re telling me that the gross, baggy, shapeless menswear that has been almost singlehandedly ruining my life is the result of a bunch of dudes in the 1900’s collectively going ‘AAAAH WHAT IF THEY THINK WE’RE GAY’
