Animation color designers have been paid about $300 per week less than the designers who do characters, backgrounds and props.
Teri Hendrich Cusumano went into contract negotiations with the major studios with the goal of making major gains for animation color designers. Such workers choose the color palette for animated films and TV shows, and traditionally they have tended to be women.
She also provided testimony from animation bosses — art directors and showrunners — about the value that color designers bring to a project. That argument played better, she said. The AMPTP did not agree to eliminate the pay gap for color designers, but did close it by one third.represents 5,000 artists, writers and technicians in the industry. On Tuesday, the union announced that 87% of the voting membership supported ratification of the new contract with the AMPTP.
between themselves and live-action writers, who are represented by the Writers Guild of America. For live-action writers in TV, WGA minimums range from $4,154 to $5,302 per week. The minimum for animation writers under the old contract is just $2,064 per week. Animation workers like to point out that during the pandemic, they were able to keep working from home while live-action production was shut down. The new contract includes a provision that could allow continued flexibility for remote workers.
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