Artists go uncredited for work on "Borderlands"

[sandstorm]

This time 3 years ago I was rigging the CG asset of Claptrap for the Borderlands movie. I worked on him for 5 consecutive months. Neither I, nor the artist who modelled him (Who I worked with the entire time), got a credit for the film
- Robbie Reid the Rigger (@chowgood) August 8, 2024
Robbie Reid the rigger says neither he nor the artist who

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TIME FOR CGI TO UNIONIZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

[xbriyeon]

As someone who adores the games, I knew this would flop, since it looked awful and insulting to the games. Awful for those CGI workers consistently low-balled and exploited and forced to crunch and some NOT EVEN get credit???

For this to be worse than the Hitman or Assassin's Creed movie attempts though....... oh wow /OwenWilson!voice

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[war_machine_rox]

Assassin's Creed was so boring my god I'm still baffled how they were able to do that lol

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[lamppost1911]

Piggy backing off of your comment to continue my comment (if that makes sense and apologies) but the big awards need to acknowledge more categories as well. I STILL don’t understand how stunt people don’t have a category at the Oscars.

I know even if they did add certain categories they’d be sidelined to a different date or not shown to the public but they should still be acknowledged.

[daijouboo]

Fuck this movie. Fuck Eli Roth. I'm so glad his wife left him and married a woman.

[evenstarnikki]

i didn't realize the word was so bad on this film. i thought the trailer looked great. haven't played the game, just apparently like movies about misfits and ragtag team-ups.

[kamikashi]

so i just wanna say even im in the rolling credits of a couple big videogames from a major studio (no longer working there) - and i was just in financial operations.

im sure its diff in every company, but i think it was brand related team who just asked the managers in various depts and went, write down a list of names in your team that you want credited. i really dont get why it seems so political to get credits.

[willardwright]

I'm a freelancer working in games and the main issue with crediting is that the companies that offer freelancers' services to game studios don't like to credit their freelancers, because they like them to be completely dependent on the company. Being credited makes it easier to get jobs without the company's help, which is why they prefer to just write "Translation: Keywords Studios" instead of naming people.

I've been very lucky myself in that regard, but I know people who have been consistently working on games for like 10 years and have 1-2 credits to their name and the rest they're not allowed to talk about.

[willardwright]

tl;dr: capitalism!

[5368f65]

It's roughly the same idea with full-time employees of studios btw.

There's a massive power imbalance in a studio setting as well. Yeah, you can complain internally and at least you know who messed up what, have someome to blame. But these credit lists get done in such a rushed manner that one day you think, oh, my manager sent the name list for the credits, yay. And then next week you watch a cut that supposedly cannot be edited anymore unless there are showstoppers, and your name is not there. Names not being in the credits is not a showstopper, so it's too late. You can always argue with your manager, but no one takes it seriously.

[einodia]

I'm HA about this movie having such low ratings because I could tell from the first trailer it was awful and gimmicky, but it is deeply unimpressive they're not even crediting the likely very underpaid and overworked effects artists on this movie.