Preliminary Exercise: Writing an Article

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The Suffering of Marvel’s VFX Workers

By Bryan Pinero

@brypinero


Over the past few years, the VFX artists at Marvel Studios have been suffering from the poor working conditions at the company and have had to work more than ever before into visual effects for Marvel’s projects. This suffering stemmed from the studio recently releasing more projects than they have in 12 years.

In its history, Marvel has always been credited and admired for the visual work present in their films. The company has even been nominated several times for awards because of it.

However, the visual work of these projects have recently begun to degrade and more criticism has come from fans. One of the more well-known criticisms from the audience is of the “floating head boy” in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).

This decline in quality has been due to how overwhelming the newest “phases” of Marvel projects have been for the VFX artists. Whereas before, Marvel used to release two to three movies yearly, now they release four movies and three to four shows. With more projects coming out, the artists have more pressure and less time to finish these projects.

Many argue that Marvel should delay their projects to give the artists more time to work under less pressure. However, the studio has remained set about their release dates, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed all of the projects previously announced.

Alongside the overwhelming slate of projects, the VFX artists have also had to adjust to working understaffed.

“Where I would usually have a team of ten VFX artists on a non-Marvel movie, on one Marvel movie, I got two including myself. So every person is doing more work than they need to.” said an unnamed VFX artist to Vulture.

Marvel also has commitment issues and asks for a lot of changes in their projects. This is seen in the Disney Plus show, Hawkeye, where scenes of Clint Barton’s backstory were deleted from the final cut.

“So you’re already overworked, but then Marvel’s asking for regular changes way in excess of what any other client does. And some of those changes are really major. Maybe a month or two before a movie comes out, Marvel will have us change the entire third act.” said the same VFX artist to Vulture.

The VFX artists at Marvel Studios feel that they have had enough and want to be treated better. These artists once cherished the opportunity of working for a multi-billion dollar company like Marvel and now some of them despise ever working for them again.

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