Rocksand ✨Story Artist/Director✨

Available for work! Storyboard, Directing, Revisions, Design; feature animation and tv animation. Website: roxanncole.com Email for password (serious business inquiries only)

One thing I do kinda wish would stop happening is saying something was cancelled when it just wasn’t renewed. I’ve worked on shows that have been cancelled and THAT sucks so much bc a job ends prematurely. Not getting renewed also sucks, but mostly for my sense of job security

@FloodingLong @ScratchyDerose It’s bc it’s a gig based job. So when a show gets cancelled, or doesn’t get greenlit for another season soon enough, the entire team working on it gets laid off. It wasn’t always like this, but now corps lay off and hire only project to project offering lower wages each time

@ScratchyDerose Is there any evidence that anyone has lost their job as a result of Velma being canceled? Why do you guys just assume cancellation of a show means jobs lost? Studios generally handle multiple projects. The only people who might lose it are ironically the higher-ups on the show.

I want make something perfect clear before I shut up about Velma for today. You don’t have to like Velma, but you SHOULD at the very least try to feel sympathetic to all the workers that lost their jobs, doesn’t matter if it “sucked” work is work. Regardless of what it is.

@kingkalactite @ScratchyDerose Companies have encouraged us to adopt a scarcity mindset. The idea that there’s a scarcity of resources to make more shows, and so cancellations of shows that are slightly less successful are required, is false. They promote that to deflect responsibility onto the consumer

@kingkalactite @ScratchyDerose So anyway, I agree that it makes sense for companies to not renew unsuccessful properties. The sad thing about it all is that the ppl who suffer most for these failures are not the ppl who are actually at fault, which is why it hurts to see ppl joyfully respond to a cancellation

It’s really disgusting that people are celebrating this shows cancellation, while it’s animation staff are losing their jobs during a time when the industry is in a very bad way. it’s an insult to them. I know Velma wasn’t everyone’s favorite but COME ON YALL. Show some respect.

Available for work! Storyboard, Directing, Revisions, Design; feature animation and tv animation. Website: roxanncole.com Email for password (serious business inquiries only)

They should care but they won’t, so we need to separate from our frustration around how things should be and fight against how we know things are. We need to stand behind our knowledge that these corps cannot function w/out us and not let them convince us we are worth less

We need to remember not to talk to the ppl representing the corps as ppl. They’re just the human face negotiating on behalf of the company. A company isn’t concerned with humanity, they don’t eat food or need shelter so it can’t and won’t empathize with or care about you

So, when we as the peon employees of these companies are trying to negotiate fair wages: we cannot go into those negotiations in good faith. Because the corps certainly are not. We can’t convince them to meet our needs, bc they don’t care, so we must demand that they do.

And in entertainment: every product we make takes a lot of time and money on the front end, so not every fiscal year can look good on the stock market. It’s just not actually feasible. So instead of adapting the way they measure success, we see massive lay offs and cancellations

This is also why we see significant layoffs at the end of virtually every year: the company wants to look like they made and saved money at the end of every fiscal year. So they fabricate that by laying off essential employees and claim it’s reducing ‘redundancy’

The ‘riskier’ more serious animation shows you might be hyped for: they get cancelled/get slashed b4 they ever air the most. Studios these days function like tech companies, and that is antithetical to animation bc it on paper it needs to be made at a loss before it can be a gain

Did a little freelance boards on this! And my twin sister directed on this. It’s a good show that had a great team.

How we choose talk about things really really matters. It affects how we interface with the world and each other on a subconscious level. Talking dogmatically about your opinions can lead to rigid thinking and an increased inability to allow change and adaptability

So that is to say please feel welcome to your own feelings about something and your right to express those feelings. But please be mindful of how you express them to a wider audience. If you don’t know something for a fact just try not to frame your opinion as though it is fact

Also if you hate a show, and it’s not objectively actively harmful: you need to talk about it from a personal opinion standpoint. Your opinion is subjectively true, but misattributing your personal feelings about anything as objective fact is actually what is actively harmful

Being happy when a bad show gets cancelled bc you think that means more room for good ones: that’s not how it works. That’s a scarcity mindset that places blame in the wrong place and only serves the corporation. When a show is cancelled I guarantee it happened b4 it even aired.