ccateni Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 I have been noticing a lot that disney's shows (mostly animated) are being done by other studios, with the other studios only being credited in the credits, while disney takes full credit everywhere else. Is common practice in the animation industry, or is it just a Disney thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altlabrat Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 It's common practice, in fact, the studio credited also probably hired another studio to assist them that goes completely uncredited. Disney (or CN or WB or Teletoon or whatever) develops the show idea, character designs and storyboards, then sends it off to a 3rd world sweatshop to be animated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccateni Posted February 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 4 hours ago, altlabrat said: It's common practice, in fact, the studio credited also probably hired another studio to assist them that goes completely uncredited. Disney (or CN or WB or Teletoon or whatever) develops the show idea, character designs and storyboards, then sends it off to a 3rd world sweatshop to be animated. Isn't that bad to not give credit to another company? Couldn't they sew? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaurusX Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 They’re being paid aren’t they? They’re happy to get the business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altlabrat Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 (edited) They don't give credit mostly to keep their sweatshops from being cannibalized by other studios, they want to pay the absolute minimum local laws will allow them to but you can't do that if your sweatshop is getting offers from another studio. It's basically the same for all for the people on the bottom of creative endeavors, most freelance work for big and medium time players usually comes attached with draconian NDAs that don't allow you to even mention you ever worked for them, which basically stunts your capacity of getting more and better jobs since work done behind an NDA is the same as work never done for resume purposes or studio's portfolio. Edited February 15, 2018 by altlabrat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElementalCards Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 (edited) When it comes to sponsors, do the tv network, the studio distributing the show and the creators get paid in some way or is it an either or thing? Edited February 20, 2018 by ElementalCards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flipsidestix2 Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 It seems like companies do whatever they can to save money and the Animation industry is no different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logamuyiwu Posted May 5, 2018 Report Share Posted May 5, 2018 The only indication of new episodes of Milo Murphy's Law was a tweet from Wierd Al which is sad - nothing else from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpeg1 Posted May 7, 2018 Report Share Posted May 7, 2018 It can be deceptive in many cases.....take some of their non-animated shows such as those produced by "It's a Laugh" productions...Disney actually owns them. As far as sponsors....are you referring to commercials? They are completely separate. Scenario 1...The creators are the production company. They pitch the ideas to the distribution companies (studios) and if all goes well are provided a budget to create the show. The Studio earns the rights for a set period of time and the production company is paid a percentage of the profits. When the rights agreement expires, the production company is free to sell the show into syndication. Scenario 2....The Studio buys a concept outright and owns all future rights. They pay all production costs and keep all of the profits by either selling the show to a Network or Running it on their own Network. An example might be like "The Big Bang Theory". CBS pays Warner Bros for the 1st and 2nd airing rights and the right to display it on their website for a set period of time. After that, the rights revert back to Warner Bros. Warner Bros then has the right to sell the show into syndication and release it on DVD. An example of a Studio taking advantage of a Production Company would be Scenario 1 where the Studio pays for a show to be created and the Production Company gets a portion of the profits....but instead of airing the show on its own network or selling it to another network, they sell it BELOW cost to a subsidiary of their own company for less than what it costs to make..the result, the Production Company doesn't make a profit. They just "Break Even". Smallville was an example of this in action...Warner Bros sold the show to their own subsidiary, the CW for less than cost. The Production company was of course paid to create the episodes, but never earned the expected 10% extra if the show excelled. On Warner Bros books, the show was losing money...but on the CW books, it was making a killing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JariahDaBeast Posted May 22, 2018 Report Share Posted May 22, 2018 A lot of shows are animated in Korea cause cheap labour. IIRC the guy who made the canon busters anime has a series on YouTube of what it's like to be an animator there, etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altlabrat Posted June 25, 2018 Report Share Posted June 25, 2018 Korea is actually the high end stuff, your average throwaway cartoon is usually animated on some 3rd world dump like Phillipines, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico by people who are literally off the street and don't even know how to draw (ever wonder why plenty of current cartoons are so reliant on skeletal rigs?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccateni Posted July 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 Disney might not do this anyone as last I heard, they maybe ditching mercury filmworks for the fact that disney hasn't given them more work and hasn't paid them apparently due to a dispute (I wonder if crediting has anything to do with it). This may not be good for some of their shows, but their only rumors behind the scenes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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