#animators strike

a loss for ai is a win for gay people everywhere

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A Fellow Fan reached out to me on Twitter about this awesome show. I love Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur! If you are a fan of Rise of the TMNT, you’d love Moon Girl as well! They were produced by the same studio! Moon Girl is in danger of being cancelled for good! Season 2, which was divided in half, may be the last season we see! Now is the time to raise awareness about it across social media! Don’t let Nickelodeon cancel another great show! Every little effort counts! Here are some things you can do to help!

1. Spam the hashtags to save Moon Girl across social media. #SaveMoonGirl #SaveMM&DD #SaveMoonGirlandDevilDinosaur #SaveMoonGirl&DD #Disneyletdown #Istandwithanimation #CancelledCartoons

2. Constant Disney across their social media and hound them about this show. Don’t be rude, but vouch for Moon Girl and why it deserves to continue! The animation is great, the main characters are great! The music is wonderful and it is SO RARE to see such an inspiring marvel superhero, who is both a girl, African American, AND a STEM genius! There are so many little girls out there that need that kind of representation, that want to get into science and math, but never see any little girl on TV with the same interests! Be their voice! We failed The Ghost and Molly McGee. Disney was once the forefront of animation, once the gold standard! Now, they make live action cash grabs and treat their 2D animated works with little respect. Prove to them that there is still love for hand drawn animation! Fight for Moon Girl!

Contact Disney Plus

Disney’s Instagram (@ them! Demand that they do better! Flood their Instagram accounts with demands for better!)

Moon Girl’s Instagram (FLOOD them with sudden followers!)

Contact Disney Channel (Email and demand that they show Moon Girl on their channel more often)

Disney’s Twitter (@ Disney. Tell them you want more moon girl and that it deserves to continue! Use the hashtags!)

Disney’s TikTok (Make art, edits, spread the word about this show!)

Don’t let Moongirl go down without a fight. Animation deserves better! Animators deserve to tell their full story, not have their work cut short, sabotaged, or cancelled by the studio that depends on OUR viewership to make money and not reward us with quality products. The age of cancellations and disrespect for animators WILL continue, if we audience members do not prove that we respect animator’s work, that we want quality animation to continue, and that we are tired of these companies ending shows before their time.

Either we band together, raise our voices for animators now, while they’re striking for fair wages, good treatment, and against AI, or we keep letting big companies get away with this kind of behavior. Disney wants to open an AI division. I know that there are fans out there that are desperate for more hand drawn Disney Films. We will never defeat Disney’s plans for AI nor get any more animated works if we don’t prove that is demand for their smaller hand drawn animated works!

SAVE! MOONGIRL!

It really pisses me off that even on my side of the political spectrum there is so much performative activism. Y’all will cheer when live action disney movies are paused indefinitely yet you don’t put your brain cells together long enough to realize that impacts the writers and animators who were working on those films. Weren’t we just striking for them not two years ago? Yeah, they may be out of a job and you’re celebrating that.

And not to mention, as Isreal is going through the worst wildfires ever people are praying for the safety of the fire….what???? Sure cheer for the potential destruction and death for ordinary civilians and their homes who had literally nothing to do with what’s going on right now.

The quality of Arcane comes obviously from a really good writing but also from the amazing  character designs, worldbuilding choices, scene composition and obviously animation; those are works that take a lot of fucking time to the amazing artists, animators and directors, and using a technology that actively threatens this working positions is not only disrespectful but also stupid. Actively feeding AI with the unique artstyle of arcane is first of all helping this abomination evolve into becoming even more precise in stealing and copying specifics artworks, and also it's teaching it how to replicate Arcane lookalike art pieces that could be used to mass produce merch or prints putting a profit in the pockets of the wrong people; not only that but since we live in a time where profits are basically the only interest to big companies, who can guarantee us that once the AI products are good enough they will not be used for the actual series and products. I know that right now it doesn't seem like a possibility for this franchise because it has given us a genuine and fantastic work of art, but seeing what is happening in the world of animation (thinking for exaple Disney pushing only corporations slabs such as live action remakes or souless films, Pixar employees given less and less creative liberty, DreamWorks Co founder Katzemberg basically declaring that animators can be replaced by AI, and all the strikes the animators in the USA are doing because of the inadequate salaries and threatens to their positions) it's not an impossible scenario, maybe the fact that the arcane/league animation projects are done by a studio based in France, [were because of EU regulations AI is more limited (kinda, but also not really lol)], can keep it safe for now, but I wouldn't be so sure about it in the future.

This is to say that there are real people in the animation industry wich are suffering the direct consequences of the capitalistic mentality of their executives, and the real threat of AI replacing their labor, you chosing to use this technology is only giving this capitalist machine free fuel.

Also it's insulting to the amazing visual work done in the show, the art of animation is finally taking a different path in big industries than the iperrealism of Disneys 3D backgrounds; let's think about Spiderverse by sony, or the lates Ninja Turtles by nickelodeon, or even better Nimona, finally there has been a path of experimentation with this form of art recognized by the general pubblic, and Arcane is yet another example of this new and diverse path. The characters flow in the scenes, everyone of them has a unique style of combat reflecting their personality, the use of color as symbols but also as enanchment of the scenes, the raw strokes and blurred edges, the use of light to convey the scenes depth, the character designs, the writing, it's a work of art, a humanmade work of art, not one done by some click on a computer and a prompt. This is a tipe of work that an AI should struggle to replicate, it easy for an artificial intelligence to remake a Disney 3D style, because it's clean, boring and all the same therefore it's easy for a company like that to start rely on this technology to feed us with all the more shit ass stories and all the same animations, let's not make it easy for an AI to replicate something like Arcane, let's not feed this machine great material to steal and reuse to take away work from the people who give us this masterpieces in the first place.

Without obviously starting the discourse about how harmful it is for the environment, but this post is already a chapter, so maybe another time.

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Last thing is I saw a girl talking about the artstyle choices in the scene where Viktor and Jayce destroy the excore, where the excore products are all kinda fucked up and uncanny like something an AI could make, and then where the two of them fucking explode (rip to them I'll miss those gay boys) everything becomes more flat like a traditional human made drawing. So maybe the glorious evolution of mankind through AI it's a lot like how it's portraid in the show: souless, all the same, lacking personal freedom of choice and creativity, therefore if we put on our thinking caps maybe it's not the best path to go down. I dunno I just wanted to throw it out there because it fits a lot.

Just my thoughts. If there are grammatical errors I'm sorry, but clearly I don't want to use an AI to correct them lol.