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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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[-] sed11q@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

People who think a Hollywood director sits down with a list of names and reviews all the credits should really get a reality check. Thousands of people work on a film like this, and sometimes not even directly with the director. In case of these VFX artist they were most probably a third party studio not at all affiliated with Nolan. How should he know who works for one of their service providers.

[-] Frogodendron@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t understand why this keeps happening. It’s zero effort to add a person, a dozen or even a thousand to the list, and nobody loses anything by simply writing in a name.

[-] scurzon@rammy.site -3 points 1 year ago

Good thing AI is taking the jobs of all those scammers

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[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 year ago

I gave up on movies the moment jar jar binks appeared on screen. I walked out and have never been back. However when I did watch movies, I always watched to the end of the credits as the musicians were always last. I am a musician.

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