Has there been any developments with this since your posting? Reading through it just makes my blood boil. Directing is directing! Animation is filmmaking! Anything that people working in animation that aren’t directors can do to help? I heard a rumor that when Dreamworks was starting, a big time live action director (maybe Scorsese?) was trying to get animation directors into the DGA, but Jeffrey convinced the directors at the time not to by paying them a lot of money and so the ship sailed.
At this point, my goal is spreading awareness so that there is support when the time is right to affect changer. I've been sharing this with as many animation directors as I can. I also brought this up at the DGA annual meeting to get this on their radar.
I heard a similar story about Dreamworks, but it was basically that to make it happen, the directors would have to fight for it (go on strike) and they chose not to. If the chance comes around again, it has to play out differently.
Has there been any developments with this since your posting? Reading through it just makes my blood boil. Directing is directing! Animation is filmmaking! Anything that people working in animation that aren’t directors can do to help? I heard a rumor that when Dreamworks was starting, a big time live action director (maybe Scorsese?) was trying to get animation directors into the DGA, but Jeffrey convinced the directors at the time not to by paying them a lot of money and so the ship sailed.
At this point, my goal is spreading awareness so that there is support when the time is right to affect changer. I've been sharing this with as many animation directors as I can. I also brought this up at the DGA annual meeting to get this on their radar.
I heard a similar story about Dreamworks, but it was basically that to make it happen, the directors would have to fight for it (go on strike) and they chose not to. If the chance comes around again, it has to play out differently.