“I’d like to see the cost of VFX artists come down.” — ‘Avatar’ director and Stability AI board member James Cameron claims effects workers are too expensive, putting blockbusters and the VFX industry at risk. www.cartoonbrew.com/vfx/vfx-arti...
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Dude could just make a practical effects film or just...shoot a script with fewet effects shots
aug 28, 2025, 11:46 pm • 6 0 • view
practical effects aren't cheaper.
aug 29, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
Then why is VFX the problem?
aug 29, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
they aren't. him being a greedy little bitch is the problem.
aug 29, 2025, 3:16 am • 3 0 • view
Here's a bright idea: maybe not EVERY movie needs to be a blockbuster. Hollywood worked VFX artists to the bone without adequate compensation or benefits, but THEY'RE the problem? Not studio heads making multi-million dollar paydays? Cameron's talking out of his ass to push his AI bullshit.
aug 28, 2025, 8:50 pm • 22 3 • view
I am now refusing to see anything Cameron makes because of his antagonistic attitude towards the very artists he has owed his career to ever since Terminator 2, whereas previously I refused to see anything he makes because all he cares about anymore are these shitass Avatar movies
aug 28, 2025, 8:26 pm • 18 1 • view
The only thing Avatar is going for it is it's world building, but even that was perfected and created by other artists and not James. His character and stories are very primitive in a writing sense.
aug 29, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Good. Stop making shit that is all about visuals. I've all but stopped watching Hollywood movies over the last ten years because it's just a bunch of empty stories that look kinda pretty. I can count the number of times I've gone to a cinema since 2020.
aug 29, 2025, 2:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Is this how I find out that James Cameron is a "Stability AI board member"?!
aug 28, 2025, 10:48 pm • 2 0 • view
I would rather never watch another movie as long as I live than watch one made by fucking ai, do not watch Avatar and don’t give a single dime to that asshat.
aug 29, 2025, 1:57 am • 3 0 • view
I'd like to see the cost of Directors come down
aug 28, 2025, 11:01 pm • 12 0 • view
maybe your movies are bloated and unnecessary
aug 28, 2025, 10:47 pm • 3 0 • view
there's an extremely obvious LLM bot in the replies trying to stoke arguments. use your best judgment
aug 28, 2025, 8:02 pm • 4 0 • view
or...try making movies that don't require such tech?
aug 29, 2025, 3:53 am • 1 0 • view
James, takes 10 years to make a 2 billion dollar CG movie: - How do we make it less expensive? I dunno bro... Maybe use budding new actors in films where it's humans doing human things in human places? Ya know, like most movies from 1888-2000? It has been done before
aug 28, 2025, 7:41 pm • 60 1 • view
lol at "use budding new actors" JC: Who will I get to play this teenage girl? Of course, 70-something-year-old Sigourney Weaver. Who else could possibly do it?
aug 29, 2025, 12:43 am • 17 0 • view
Clearly the perfect pick
aug 29, 2025, 1:08 am • 8 0 • view
If an industry won't fairly compensate its workers then it doesn't deserve to exist.
aug 29, 2025, 1:11 am • 5 0 • view
Disappointing.
aug 29, 2025, 4:20 am • 0 0 • view
Would love to hear Corridor Digital's take on this after how much they've gushed about his movies.
aug 28, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Corridor Digital are pro-AI hacks.
aug 29, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
Lol yeah it's the VFX guys who are putting the industry at risk ok sure
aug 28, 2025, 8:33 pm • 9 0 • view
Sounds like James Blanderon doesn't need a cent of my money.
aug 29, 2025, 3:13 am • 1 0 • view
What a grotesque insult to the people who make his movies.
aug 29, 2025, 1:07 pm • 9 0 • view
OK? Hamburglar laments price of beef, who gives a fuck
aug 29, 2025, 11:13 am • 1 0 • view
Damnit James, the hard work people put into these movies is what makes them so stunning in the first place!
aug 28, 2025, 11:42 pm • 1 0 • view
James Cameron calling himself out as a robber baron akin to Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, etxc.
aug 28, 2025, 8:54 pm • 10 0 • view
smash head with rock
aug 28, 2025, 3:01 pm • 33 0 • view
Are we on Flintstones logic here? A heavy blow to the head got Cameron making smurf-inspired B-movies, another one would fix him?
aug 29, 2025, 2:19 am • 2 0 • view
again ?
aug 28, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh fuck off. They're already underappreciated enough as is, Mr. genAI board member.
aug 28, 2025, 11:45 pm • 3 0 • view
Man, fuck James Cameron. He’s the James Cameron of movie directors.
aug 29, 2025, 3:24 am • 2 0 • view
Guess I will sit this one out.
aug 28, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
*Checks notes on how much profit these movies made.* Yes, it's the artists that are the problem here..... 😑
aug 29, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Counterpoint: How about value their contribution to human storytelling and compensate them appropriately.
aug 28, 2025, 8:40 pm • 4 0 • view
They say this, yet they spend more then half the budget on the actors! (yes actors should be paid but... the amount they pay some of them is crazy). I have heard more about VFX artist being under paid and working crazy hours with low pay! More then actors having that issue.
aug 29, 2025, 12:36 am • 7 0 • view
He also ignores the fact that the avatar movies are giant tech demos for technology never used before. He's out of touch.
aug 29, 2025, 1:16 am • 6 0 • view
James Cameron hasn't made a good movie in over 30 years.
aug 29, 2025, 4:12 am • 0 0 • view
This is why: Steve Kostanski > James Cameron
aug 28, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Has he considered writing better movies that are less reliant on VFX?
aug 29, 2025, 7:46 am • 0 0 • view
Has he considered not making ‘Dances with Wolves’ yet again?
aug 29, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Won’t someone think of the billionaires at the head of the theft machine company. Their poor, poor, stupid feelings.
aug 28, 2025, 9:57 pm • 19 0 • view
As soon as someone says paying workers fairly for their contributions puts their industry “at risk”, you know the real problem lies in their woeful mismanagement.
aug 29, 2025, 5:13 am • 18 2 • view
Then, starve
aug 28, 2025, 9:42 pm • 3 0 • view
He says this in the middle of one of worst cost of living crisis in history.
aug 28, 2025, 6:39 pm • 72 0 • view
If paying decently people put your industry at risk, your industry deserves to die.
aug 29, 2025, 8:21 am • 16 2 • view
Oh noes the man who supposedly has an $800 million net worth doesn't want to pay people a liveable wage for his overly bloated Dances with Wolves movies. How I feel for him.
aug 28, 2025, 9:52 pm • 3 0 • view
James Cameron acting like a self-centered douche canoe? Color me shocked and amazed. If he doesn't want to compensate the numerous creative people who make his films possible, then he doesn't deserve the privilege of being a big budget filmmaker.
aug 29, 2025, 1:42 am • 4 0 • view
Who cares? He's an asshole.
aug 28, 2025, 9:28 pm • 2 0 • view
VFX artists turned his shitty film into one of the biggest ever. Absolutely nobody would've watched Avatar if it didn't look so weird and beautiful. But whatever, put it through the slop machine and see what happens. Cameron gave up on making art a long time ago.
aug 28, 2025, 10:41 pm • 59 1 • view
It sucks so much that really bad ai slop is probably the last remaster that true lies and aliens will ever get
aug 29, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
And I'd like to see James Cameron make movies people actually enjoy again. Hell, even some more deep-sea documentaries.
aug 28, 2025, 4:15 pm • 38 0 • view
He should just take part in a new oceangate expedition.
aug 29, 2025, 9:52 am • 3 0 • view
Here’s an idea, maybe don’t make movies almost entirely full of crazy CGI then.
aug 29, 2025, 2:43 am • 7 0 • view
He should spend more time in other brands of deep sea submersibles.
aug 28, 2025, 8:36 pm • 10 0 • view
Isn't he the guy that makes 3 hour movies that are 99% CGI?
aug 28, 2025, 8:34 pm • 8 0 • view
maybe old cammy boy should take a paycut instead
aug 28, 2025, 10:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Has he considered not spending as much on expensive CGI and making good movies? Because these movies make a lot of money, and then basically disappear from pop culture.
aug 29, 2025, 3:13 am • 4 0 • view
They disappear because the only memorable part of them is the CGI quality.
aug 29, 2025, 3:38 am • 2 0 • view
yeah buddy vfx artists would like to see rent and groceries go down get in line bud or stop spending so much on adult sized submarine toys
aug 29, 2025, 7:04 am • 2 0 • view
weird how Superman did just fine while also giving VFX houses a finished movie to work on and time to work on it www.ign.com/articles/dc-...
aug 29, 2025, 8:52 pm • 13 3 • view
Cameron really has turned out to be a sellout dick, hasn't he?
aug 28, 2025, 8:19 pm • 9 0 • view
Can the man stop trying to be a shit stirrer for 1 minute.
aug 29, 2025, 7:18 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 7:26 pm • 4 0 • view
Director of multiple of the most financially successful movies in history says with his whole chest that he wants to pay THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE HIS MOVIES less money.
aug 28, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Crazy idea, but maybe use fewer vfx if you dont want to pay for having lots of vfx
aug 29, 2025, 12:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Makes one of the highest grossing movies of all time "It's not profitable enough" ?????????
aug 28, 2025, 8:35 pm • 12 0 • view
What a fucking idiot. He's been alive for nearly a third of a century and has forgotten where he came from.
aug 29, 2025, 6:21 am • 0 0 • view
How dare the VFX artists want more than $13/hr when Cameron got to keep a third of the budget for himself. It's not like THEY made the movie! ...oh, wait
aug 29, 2025, 2:22 am • 6 1 • view
We could replace him with a cheaper director maybe?
aug 29, 2025, 9:50 am • 10 0 • view
Do we *need* blockbusters anymore? All of the good ones are so bad it's good territory, and the last of those came out in 1998. Blockbusters haven't had a future for, without exaggeration, ⅓ of Cameron's own lifetime.
aug 28, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe they can find some budget cuts in the P&A side which is just as costly as the production side
aug 28, 2025, 7:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Here’s a thought: producers should have a full story before they go to VFX to cut down on costs instead of just asking them to do more for less
aug 28, 2025, 7:47 pm • 7 0 • view
I came out of that industry 10 years ago, working on the software reseller side, with clients that included Weta and Animal Logic. Those artists were on lore fixed salaries and regularly expected to work 16-18 hours days for months in end. Some of the treatment I saw was criminal
aug 28, 2025, 7:30 pm • 47 0 • view
Both these places were my "dream jobs" when I was younger. Then I met and spoke to people once I was in the industry, who had worked at both these places...and the payrates and workplace stories shocked me.
aug 29, 2025, 5:32 am • 3 0 • view
There were some good places that treated people as well as they could, hope you landed at one of those! Actually, the places that focused on local productions and high end ads usually did pretty well, and weren’t near so bad.
aug 29, 2025, 11:34 am • 1 0 • view
I knew one guy that was so fucked over that he got himself fired by dressing up as hitler, wore a badge with the owners name and matched through the corridors until he was escorted out.
aug 29, 2025, 11:33 am • 5 0 • view
Maybe he should make less money.
aug 28, 2025, 5:31 pm • 183 2 • view
*ding ding ding!* ☝️
aug 28, 2025, 11:31 pm • 10 0 • view
Says the guy that don´t have a single movie that remais minimally interesting if you remove the fucking VFX
aug 29, 2025, 3:27 am • 13 0 • view
Aliens.
aug 29, 2025, 11:24 am • 0 0 • view
Sorry my friend, but Aliens would be a piece of shit if not for the brave warriors in the vfx, doing comp and integration for all miniatures, creatures and stop motion in the actual footage…
aug 29, 2025, 12:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Sigourney Weaver did not fight the Battle of the Bush to hear such slander. Although maybe that falls under visual effects, idk 😂
aug 29, 2025, 12:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Although that happened in the first movie, didn't it? Ugh I need to go watch them again.
aug 29, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s a Vietnam war movie that would have been just as good without the VFX. Besides: more ≠ better
aug 29, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
People should make less money says director that earned 350 million for a movie.
aug 28, 2025, 10:53 pm • 16 1 • view
Yeah well I'd like the number of avatar movies to come down.
aug 28, 2025, 8:54 pm • 6 0 • view
Sounds like someone who should suffer and probably experience pain
aug 29, 2025, 2:42 am • 9 0 • view
Aliens cost $54.5 million in 2025 dollars. Avatar: the Way of Water cost $460 million. Maybe make movies more like Aliens and less like Avatar 2 if you want to save money on special effects. Aliens was a better movie anyway.
aug 29, 2025, 2:59 pm • 3 0 • view
.....says the guy who invented a whole new music thing just to waste it all and replace it with generic military brass. Sure buddy.
aug 29, 2025, 5:23 am • 5 0 • view
"it's so hard to pay the people that makes my movies good 😖"
aug 28, 2025, 3:05 pm • 268 1 • view
They’re not even good. And at this point, they just make his movies. Everything he does now is just CGI tech demos with shit stories.
aug 28, 2025, 9:46 pm • 10 0 • view
Nah, they're really good looks at a fictional world where the story is so on the nose you can take in all the gorgeous sights and miss nothing. Which is to say he's paid way too much for making the least important part of them.
aug 29, 2025, 3:20 am • 7 0 • view
Bingo. Don’t get me wrong. Pandora is a beautiful, interesting world. But dear God, the stories are awful. So, pay those artists dammit!
aug 29, 2025, 7:39 pm • 3 0 • view
If you had written 'pays' you would have sounds just likes Popeye.
aug 28, 2025, 4:10 pm • 7 0 • view
Fuck you Jimmy
aug 28, 2025, 9:49 pm • 2 0 • view
will no one think of THE BLOCKBUSTERS?!
aug 28, 2025, 8:22 pm • 10 0 • view
The people who literally make him rich.
aug 28, 2025, 8:24 pm • 12 0 • view
look all im saying is a bunch of people liked gale anne hurd movies and they just had a lot of crossover with james cameron movies and they didnt really work this out its totally cool
aug 29, 2025, 9:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Makes me wonder how he’s treated VFX artists so far.
aug 28, 2025, 11:25 pm • 4 0 • view
We'd like the cost of movie tickets to go down. We'd like the studios profits to go down and go to the workers instead. We'd like the people who create the art to be rewarded for the work they do.
aug 28, 2025, 8:01 pm • 12 0 • view
Fuck James Cameron. How about stop paying "actors" such exorbitant salaries.
aug 28, 2025, 8:46 pm • 7 0 • view
Actors are workers and the reason they can negotiate such good salaries is because of SAG/AFTRA. Don't throw your fellow workers under the bus when there are plenty of managers and executives who deserve it more.
aug 28, 2025, 10:14 pm • 9 0 • view
“putting the industry at risk” how much money did your last movie make jim? Maybe that had a little to do with the people who made it.
aug 29, 2025, 4:19 am • 5 0 • view
Well now I know all the environmentalism in the Avatar movies is as hypocritical as it's cartoonishly basic.
aug 28, 2025, 9:06 pm • 8 0 • view
disappointing take from James.
aug 29, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Budgets are skewed, and nobody has a clear idea of what things cost and where savings need to be made. VFX is being used as a scapegoat here. There are a lot of low budget indie movies that have spectacular VFX despite their low budgets, so that is not where the problem lies.
aug 28, 2025, 9:45 pm • 4 0 • view
As if anybody is watching the Avatar movies for anything but the special effects. Nobody can name more than two characters (if that) from those movies, but everybody praises the special effects.
aug 29, 2025, 3:50 am • 10 0 • view
Filhadaputa desse fazendo os 3 filmes com maior bilheteria e com mão de vaca pra pagar direito as pessoas, se fuder
aug 29, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
cameron is truly an innovator of being a piece of shit
aug 28, 2025, 3:30 pm • 356 7 • view
Or he's just being honest. He's saying out loud what a lot of potential employers are thinking but are afraid to say.
aug 28, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes he’s honestly and authentically being a dipshit asshole who is tired of paying people what they deserve for hard work. Him and every other employer who thinks they’re entitled to cheap labor.
aug 28, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Potential employers shouldn’t be in business if they can’t afford people to do the work they want done :)
aug 28, 2025, 9:50 pm • 11 0 • view
But they are, Blanche! They are!
aug 28, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I wouldn't call honesty to pretending that his problem with the Avatar franchise getting more expensive to make is an industry wide problem. VFX work being expensive isn't a problem unless that's all your movie is visually. And that's not the norm.
aug 29, 2025, 8:03 am • 0 0 • view
holly he doesnt know you exist he's not gonna thank u for coming to his rescue you can sit down now
aug 28, 2025, 9:43 pm • 7 0 • view
He doesn't know that anybody who's posting comments on this page exists, bri.
aug 28, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
then why are we wasting time defending him from criticism he wont see 🤨🤨
aug 28, 2025, 10:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Why are you wasting time criticizing him with comments that he wouldn't pay any attention to if he read them?
aug 28, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
because it's fun and i like hating on stupid ai bros
aug 29, 2025, 4:18 am • 2 0 • view
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0T...
aug 29, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
"as you can see, i have portrayed myself as the mastiff and you as the chihuahua, therefore winning this argument" hopefully the chihuahua tastes better than the boot you have jammed down your throat!!
aug 29, 2025, 4:44 am • 1 0 • view
You, being you, got that backwards. I posted that video in response to your comment about making fun of ai bros. To point out the obvious to the completely oblivious,the chihuahua was you. The English mastiff was the ai bros. The joke wasn't on you. The joke is you.
aug 29, 2025, 10:06 am • 0 0 • view
he just ignored the question lmao, not only he is defending them he won't even admit that lmao what a coward
aug 29, 2025, 6:33 am • 2 0 • view
You’re right. They should be afraid to say it
aug 28, 2025, 9:32 pm • 1 0 • view
“potential employers” shut up
aug 28, 2025, 9:32 pm • 3 0 • view
The employers may certainly be thinking that, but only because shit bags like Cameron squeeze VFX firms so hard, the buildings start bleeding so they can’t afford to pay them more if they want to win contracts.
aug 28, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
His dogshit Pocahontas Goes To The Moon tech demo films are the REASON Hollywood went CGI crazy in the first place. He had a HUGE hand in creating that demand, as well as the resulting culture of overworking and underpaying the people that create these VFX.
aug 28, 2025, 9:45 pm • 7 0 • view
The worst thing that could happen for all of the VFX artists who are overworked and underpaid would be if the demand for movies that needed VFX artists went away.
aug 30, 2025, 8:13 am • 0 0 • view
So he’s an honest piece of shit, I’m sure VFX artists everywhere appreciate that
aug 28, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Are you just James Cameron’s side account? It’s ok you can tell us
aug 28, 2025, 9:42 pm • 3 0 • view
You sound like you flew into the sun, 'icacus'.
aug 28, 2025, 10:07 pm • 0 0 • view
no he is just a cuck who defends billionaires
aug 29, 2025, 6:39 am • 0 0 • view
Yes and they should all be put up against a wall, correct
aug 28, 2025, 7:17 pm • 6 0 • view
That fear is good, just and probably not intense enough, tbh.
aug 29, 2025, 12:35 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you pfpless bot account sticking up for the billionaire class, go die now
aug 28, 2025, 7:44 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm more real than you are. I'm not sticking up for the billionaire class. The billionaire class aren't going to suffer in the way that you're going to suffer when you price yourself out of doing business with them.
aug 28, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't do business with maggots. I'll be fine. Keep sucking their cocks though, I'm sure it'll be worth it.
aug 28, 2025, 8:02 pm • 5 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 11:12 am • 0 0 • view
Why "or"? You can be honest AND a piece of shit (he's both)
aug 28, 2025, 7:29 pm • 11 0 • view
You're right.
aug 28, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
same employers who cut themselves exorbitant paychecks (often hundreds of times higher than their staff) after a full day of either not working or actively interfering with the production
aug 28, 2025, 9:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah a lot of employers are scum bags.
aug 28, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
So what you're saying is employers are cheap fucking dicks
aug 28, 2025, 7:49 pm • 15 0 • view
They can be because there are so many employees who have no choice but to allow them to be.
aug 30, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I'd like to see Jim take a cut to his paycheck next film to help bring the film budget down.
aug 29, 2025, 3:35 am • 7 0 • view
Less VFX and more story then.
aug 30, 2025, 6:59 am • 1 0 • view
Rich guy finds it hard to get richer?
aug 29, 2025, 3:08 am • 3 0 • view
1. Fuck you, James, pay them 2. Maybe make movies with less CGI and more sets and practical effects
aug 28, 2025, 7:39 pm • 7 0 • view
I know, he could try using practical effects. The ones that feel real, because they are.
aug 28, 2025, 9:24 pm • 2 0 • view
The crazy thing is, he used to be the master of that. Before he became a hotshot director, he did visual effects for Roger Corman. Practical all the way.
aug 28, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
they aren't cheaper. depending on the effect, they can be more expensive. not counting the risks.
aug 29, 2025, 1:15 am • 1 0 • view
Wait, but those cost money too! Oh, how can he continue to MAKE MOVIES, if he has to sit down and make a budget for actually making the movie?
aug 28, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
A strong reason practical effects are on a downtrend and CGI is shitting up everything is because most VFX shops aren't unionized, and thus studios can get a lot more man hours per dollar by using cheaper workers to do *everything*, even if practical would be better.
aug 28, 2025, 7:55 pm • 107 8 • view
VFX is already a cost cutting/union busting measure, trying to pay these people even less for the amount of work dropped on their plates is fucking insane.
aug 28, 2025, 7:55 pm • 88 5 • view
god I hope they can get unionized asap
aug 28, 2025, 8:03 pm • 35 0 • view
They have been talking about that since the whole Life of Pi fiasco (and likely before that).
aug 28, 2025, 9:47 pm • 11 0 • view
People should just ignore and block this guy(screen cap below). He’s obviously a studio flak. Or worse, an aspiring wannabe producer whose only plan for filmmaking is exploitation. His entire timeline is just variations on “stop expecting a living wage and work for the scraps you are offered”.
aug 29, 2025, 7:59 am • 1 0 • view
I know like 100,000 people have already said that every time he opens his mouth about this, but does he not remember that he co-wrote and directed a couple of movies about AI being fucked up???
aug 28, 2025, 9:55 pm • 3 0 • view
That was before they discovered that there was potential money in it
aug 29, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
I'd like to see the cost of executives and multimillionaires come down myself.
aug 28, 2025, 9:30 pm • 6 0 • view
hey james cameron, avatar sucked shit. it didnt matter how much money you pour into a turd its still a turd
aug 28, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view
What a worm.
aug 29, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
Claymation or nothing
aug 28, 2025, 7:58 pm • 6 0 • view
Fella who makes millions complaining about people who make thousands.
aug 29, 2025, 2:37 am • 20 1 • view
JC: "I want the very best visual effects people have ever seen and I want to push the boundaries of what is possible in the medium." VFX artists: "There you go James." *movies makes more money than any other movies ever* JC: "Thanks. Oh and by the way I also want you to be cheap."
aug 28, 2025, 8:07 pm • 95 3 • view
🎼🎶🎵This is the song that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend🎵🎶🎵🎶
aug 28, 2025, 9:51 pm • 33 0 • view
Ah yes, it's terrible paying talented and hardworking people for their work isn't it. How awful 🙄🤦♂️ Must really cut into those billion dollar profits
aug 28, 2025, 2:57 pm • 699 15 • view
There's no shortage of expensive VFX heavy movies that have bombed at the box office. Earning 80% of the pay that the talented hardworking people have been making on VFX movies would be preferable to earning 0% on VFX movies that aren't being made because they're too expensive to make.
aug 28, 2025, 4:34 pm • 11 1 • view
VFX budget isn't as much a measure of VFX quantity as directorial incompetence. If you just half-ass everything in the actual shoot and figure you'll do it in post, everything is suddenly blindingly expensive with poor results. With some forethought it's amazing what can be done on a shoestring.
aug 29, 2025, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
Studios can afford to pay EVERYONE that does the actual work and creates the movies. They sure as fuck pay their executives no matter what so they can afford to pay the talent.
aug 28, 2025, 8:03 pm • 22 0 • view
And whose fault is that? Maybe the inventor of “unobtanium” can watch his own films about exploitation and corporate overreach??
aug 28, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Movies are not too expensive to make because of wages paid to VFX artists. They're too expensive to make because of the massive amounts of infrastructure and equipment expenses and amounts paid to the stars and director and studio head and producers. Hope this helps
aug 28, 2025, 9:53 pm • 7 0 • view
Not enough people get the upside of successful movies. Heavy CGI movies, the workers should get royalties tbh.
aug 28, 2025, 8:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Not really; being paid so little the VFX studio shuts down after winning awards ALSO means being out of a job. So at some point you gotta put your foot down and say PAY US or else you're out of a job anyway.
aug 28, 2025, 6:05 pm • 281 5 • view
It depends on what you consider "so little". Winning awards doesn't always translate into profitability. The bottom line where you would put your foot down and say that you wouldn't work for less wouldn't be everyone else's bottom line. Someone else will take the job you turned down.
aug 28, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
That is why VFX people need to make sure they are in a union. Fact is studios can afford it. They just don't want to because they are greedy fucks. There are billion dollar box office movies that studios still claim have not made any money.
aug 28, 2025, 8:06 pm • 4 0 • view
You re imagining anyone can do VFX well or that it’s like a production line making widgets. Both are ignorantly wrong
aug 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
You're imagining that nobody who could do VFX well would be willing to work for less if that's what it took to get the job. You're incredibly naive.
aug 28, 2025, 10:20 pm • 0 0 • view
You do something well by doing it. Experience not lessons are the most valuable. Being part of a team that gels. Also. If they were that great wouldn’t they have the work in the first place? Nothing is stopping Cameron from creating his own VOC studio like IDM and Pixar and wētā.
aug 28, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
You're not going to get the experience that would allow you to gel with any team if you price yourself out of a job. Working for less got them in the door.
aug 29, 2025, 10:51 am • 0 0 • view
Got who in what door? you're going round in circles. You're using company undercutting tactics and applying them to staff applications. mixed up much? If Cameron wants cut-rate VFX he's perfectly capable of creating a VFX company where he can pay less to that staff. No-one's stopping him.
sep 1, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
www.deltaromeo.tv/insights/the...
sep 1, 2025, 6:03 am • 0 0 • view
And that’s one of the reasons VFX have been absolutely terrible lately. Long hours, low pay, and quick turnaround - that sounds like a sweatshop. It’ll only make movies *worse* - especially since movies are relying more on VFX than story now. I know he devalues it because he himself can’t do it
aug 28, 2025, 8:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Life of pi VFX studio went bankrupt
aug 28, 2025, 8:02 pm • 58 0 • view
Rhythm and Hues was also pretty poorly run but yeah the main issue was an exploitative contract that didn't pay them extra as the scope of work changed
aug 28, 2025, 8:44 pm • 14 1 • view
Why is it that it always comes down to the working people and creatives who are supposed to accept the “take a pay cut or get fired” ultimatum when studio executives continue raking in record pay even when they make terrible management decisions?
aug 28, 2025, 9:44 pm • 3 0 • view
quick question: how little are you willing to work for?
aug 28, 2025, 8:25 pm • 5 0 • view
Quick honest answer: it depends on how much I need the job. If I was struggling to make ends meet and my options were limited I would be willing to work for less.
aug 31, 2025, 12:53 pm • 0 0 • view
His argument, which has not been fleshed out here, but is available in the AP article, is that VFX artist costs are too high to make movies people want to see; that if you have tech that makes their work easier, they can do more and create more films, which would result in higher pay for artists.
aug 28, 2025, 7:44 pm • 10 1 • view
Anyone seriously declaring that genAI is going to put more money in artist pockets is a respin on the "Careful mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!" meme
aug 28, 2025, 11:24 pm • 12 0 • view
One does not actually believe this right? Like, really? He’s concerned VFX artists toolset’s in-complete/sufficient??? Too many times those insulated from daily struggle to live, echo this sort of message, blissfully unaware🧠means "I’m not making enough💰, toys & things!" Gimme because I’m genius!
aug 29, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Part of the cost of VFX is directors not having a good plan, demanding changes constantly that run prices up and just generally bad communication from the director’s team. They have good tech but you need talented people to use it & talented directors who know how to communicate their vision.
aug 29, 2025, 1:42 am • 7 0 • view
I can buy that. Still, everyone uses computer graphics right now because computer graphics studios charge less because they're more precarious and pay their workers less than the workers in practical effects, yeah? Leastwise that was my impression.
aug 29, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
He's making a volume argument. Not sure you would agree.
aug 28, 2025, 7:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Not really looking for budgeting advice from the guy giving Sam Worthington 10 million dollars
aug 28, 2025, 8:02 pm • 4 0 • view
No it wouldn't. Stop defending AI use
aug 29, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Why would we want to see some bullshit that had so little care and effort put into it that human hands literally did not touch it?
aug 28, 2025, 7:53 pm • 95 0 • view
I don't have an answer to that. But people consume things all the time they would rather not know how it was made.
aug 28, 2025, 7:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Sorry, but this sounds like an AI apologist. The cost of special effects has never been the make-or-break expense of a movie. And even if they are now, his movies have grossed literal billions.
aug 28, 2025, 11:59 pm • 5 0 • view
It's been so long since he's been regularly making movies idek how he has the perspective on the budget shifts at all. He's helmed one movie per decade for the last 30 years.
aug 29, 2025, 12:15 am • 4 0 • view
You've got part of the answer, George Another part of the answer is that the majority of the consumers couldn't care less about what the people who made the product went through while they were making it and how much they were getting paid All they care about is how much it will cost to buy it.
aug 30, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Except that's just an old turn of phrase and every single thing that it used to apply to was subjected to regulatory scrutiny bc it did harm to the consumers, the workers, or both. We have intense transparency about how the sausage is made. They are not trusted to do that themselves.
aug 28, 2025, 8:00 pm • 60 0 • view
Again, no argument from me! But do people really want to know all the details about how a movie is made -- or do they want to see a movie? Anyway, I am coming off as defending a director I am not a big fan of. My main point is that the AP article gives more context to what he was saying.
aug 28, 2025, 10:48 pm • 7 0 • view
and thank you for that! 👍
aug 29, 2025, 7:13 am • 0 0 • view
Box office revenue is still in the gutter so I don't think people actually do want more movies.
aug 28, 2025, 11:58 pm • 21 0 • view
A little counter argument - and I think we're on the same side haha - is that yea people do kinda want the details on how they're made though. There's a reason video essayists who cover every little factoid from story to making of are so popular, you know?
aug 29, 2025, 9:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Those videos cover how the movies are being made. They don't cover how much the employees are getting paid. If they made a video promoting a fancy steak restaurant they aren't going to include a tour of the slaughter house where they purchased the meat.
aug 30, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
That is a world I am ignorant of. Thank you for pointing it out.
aug 29, 2025, 9:58 pm • 2 0 • view
It's funny for him to suggest that it was too expensive to make his movies when he could easily have cut an hour out of each of the Avatars and people would've still paid for the tickets.
aug 28, 2025, 8:36 pm • 5 0 • view
You make a good point.
aug 28, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
What about those of us that want to see movies with less VFX that aren't getting made any more because the whole industry is trying to move to a model where movies can be entirely made inside a computer?
aug 29, 2025, 8:44 am • 1 0 • view
You deserve your movies! Why don't we have more of this? I dunno.
aug 29, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Animated is cheaper. It’s only about money. Not demand driven.
aug 29, 2025, 11:40 pm • 0 0 • view
There’s a reason why even today you show Back To The Future to a 14yo they’ll tell you it’s their favourite movie of all time. It’s like nothing they’ve ever seen growing up.
aug 29, 2025, 11:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe someone else’s pay should get cut if the movie is bombing? Say I dunno the directors
aug 28, 2025, 10:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Me when I don't understand the difference between Budget, Box Office and Gross
aug 28, 2025, 7:47 pm • 13 0 • view
it’s mismanagement that breaks films, not vfx artists mismanagement will not be fixed by having less staff or cooler tech in fact it’s the labourers who often check their delusional managers and push back
aug 28, 2025, 9:51 pm • 6 0 • view
VFX is specialized work, no one is entitled for specialized work. And managing the costs with VFX is part of the directors/producers job. I also think that technology should be able to cut costs and hours with VFX, the problem is that AI doesn't do a good job with it.
aug 28, 2025, 9:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Yet.
aug 29, 2025, 10:20 am • 0 0 • view
If AI wants to be really useful for artists it needs to go way further than simply creating images from a prompt. We are not talking about improving things in the margins.
aug 29, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x58L...
aug 29, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Okay, James Cameron's sock puppet.
aug 28, 2025, 11:47 pm • 2 0 • view
It's a sure bet that you've been called worse.
aug 29, 2025, 10:12 am • 0 0 • view
it's always the richest guy in the fucking room bitching about how much it costs to pay the people that make him all of his money.
aug 28, 2025, 11:40 pm • 8 0 • view
That's true. What are you going to do about it?
aug 28, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
well for one thing I'm not gonna capitulate to the prick when he tries to pay me less, and I'm gonna hold it against people who think i should
aug 28, 2025, 11:45 pm • 3 0 • view
What would the people who think you should get out of telling you that they think you should? Are they depending on you to take care of them with the money that you would be earning on a job that paid less than you normally get paid?
aug 28, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not sure if this is a comprehension issue on my end or a communication issue on yours but i have no idea what you are trying to say
aug 29, 2025, 1:37 am • 3 0 • view
It's a comprehension issue on your end. It's basic economics. You would compromise and settle for less if you couldn't afford to lose the job. I wouldn't blame you for making that compromise.
aug 29, 2025, 3:54 am • 0 0 • view
lol every time I've ever had my money fucked with my some rich asshole they've used the term "basic economics" are you a rich asshole or do you just talk like one and spend your time online defending them?
aug 29, 2025, 3:57 am • 3 0 • view
It IS basic economics. You can't pay your bills with money that you aren't making as a result of not having a job. You're not paying your rent (or your mortgage) with your "untapped potential". www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Suf...
aug 29, 2025, 4:09 am • 0 0 • view
most likely the second one, he is one of those people
aug 29, 2025, 6:25 am • 0 0 • view
Most art is not profitable because it all depends on random chance. At no point in history have these massive companies like Disney and 20th Fox EVER cared about producing good works of art, they only care if it makes money. They have never put artists priorities first.
aug 28, 2025, 8:26 pm • 4 0 • view
Why would any random person who is not a studio executive ever give a shit about the profitability of these companies? Anyone who thinks Disney can't put out good movies anymore because they aren't making more money is delusional.
aug 28, 2025, 8:27 pm • 2 0 • view
How about you go take a 20% pay cut on top of your already too low pay while being overworked within an inch of your life
aug 29, 2025, 3:13 am • 1 0 • view
Because I don't have to. If I had to in order to keep a job I couldn't afford to lose I would seriously consider it.
aug 29, 2025, 4:18 am • 0 0 • view
This makes me wish people don't work for him anymore
aug 29, 2025, 3:02 am • 2 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
It’s weird that we’ve managed to have blockbusters all these years paying VFX companies these allegedly high costs.
aug 29, 2025, 5:23 am • 2 1 • view
Suddenly, I feel better about never having been that into the first Avatar or seen the second one
aug 29, 2025, 6:31 am • 0 0 • view
"The source of my wealth costs too much." - Rich Fuck
aug 29, 2025, 1:42 am • 4 0 • view
what an asshole
aug 28, 2025, 6:29 pm • 10 0 • view
he’s a billionaire because of those underpaid and under appreciated artists, fuk james cameron
aug 28, 2025, 8:17 pm • 13 0 • view
James Cameron died in 1995 and was replaced by a cylon
aug 29, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
Counterpoint: he was always a pompous, self-cenetered, control freak and a prick.
aug 29, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Countercounterpoint: Both statements are true
aug 29, 2025, 3:52 am • 1 0 • view
maybe use less VFX you hacks
aug 29, 2025, 3:17 am • 3 0 • view
Dear Jim, Go ahead and fire everyone who's worked on your last few films. Crew, actors, vfx, you name it, and have your terrible new toy do the next few Avatars. If you're impatient with people not getting what you want on the first try now, let's see the clankers spit out for you.
aug 28, 2025, 9:34 pm • 9 0 • view
Strange how we never see this argument when speaking about actors salaries who are responsible for taking the biggest chunk of the pie. If he and the suits cared about the "integrity of VFX" then look for new blood for your movies instead of giving most of your funding to an A-lister or three?
aug 30, 2025, 1:00 am • 0 0 • view
Why is this always put on the hardest workers in the team? Not to mention the ones who don't have a union to fallback on? Cameron, you can find a way to make it happen without dumping on the very people that make his work and actors look good. Everyone wants the Sistine Chapel for Walmart prices.
aug 30, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
I love it when rich millionaires take about how it’s “Too Expensive” when they literally have the movie to pay their fucking artists….SMH
aug 28, 2025, 11:22 pm • 52 2 • view
“MONEY” not movie, “MONEY” 😓
aug 29, 2025, 2:20 am • 7 1 • view
Director fees not mentioned.
aug 28, 2025, 8:11 pm • 9 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 9:47 pm • 2 0 • view
@drovane.bsky.social mostra essa pro @gaveta.bsky.social! Depois de uma resposta ao Scorsese, acho que vale uma pro Camarão também
aug 28, 2025, 4:24 pm • 4 0 • view
back to dr who.
aug 28, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I guarantee you that Cameron takes a bigger cut of the production costs than the severely underpaid and overworked VFX artists do.
aug 28, 2025, 9:40 pm • 6 0 • view
Please get in your submarine asap Mr Cameron go as deep as possible
aug 28, 2025, 11:17 pm • 2 0 • view
fuck james cameron VFX workers should unionize.
aug 28, 2025, 8:40 pm • 35 5 • view
James Cameron is the polar opposite of who he was in the 80's and 90's. As far as I'm concerned, Gale Ann Hurd is responsible for Terminator 1&2 and Aliens.
aug 28, 2025, 9:59 pm • 5 0 • view
Fucking yes. Yesterday.
aug 28, 2025, 8:56 pm • 3 0 • view
people are understandably mad at this shitty opinion but lets not pretend avatar is bad. yeah probably overrated but its still good. saying "its bad" only further damages the vfx artists that worked on it.
aug 28, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
The story is bad. I'm not going to knock the visual effects artists' work, only that it was done in service of a mediocre story that was cynically told and which insincerity of its author is increasingly obvious.
aug 28, 2025, 9:18 pm • 3 0 • view
lol
aug 28, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, dude, Avatar wasn't even the best "humans are bastards to aliens" story told that same year.
aug 28, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
thats okay, the story was cheesy. i still enjoyed seeing a representation of capitalist imperialism get their ass kicked with an environmental message. i hate bringing this up but it was still a good time to see as someone born in the global south.
aug 28, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
and the special effects were awesome. like theres so many elements to a movie that it just very reflexive to simply hand wave it away like that
aug 28, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
This kind of thinking is what has caused this wave of generative slop that is currently drowning the internet. Visually illiterate people confuse maximalism with skill. If anything, the maximalism actually hurt the movie, since it could never be immersive despite the "realism."
aug 28, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
so wait what youre suggesting its actually the vfx artists' work that problematic?
aug 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
So I am not being reflexive at all. I've had a decade to carefully analyze why the film doesn't work, and it doesn't, no matter how loudly its fans insist it does, and it doesn't work because its story stinks. Great visuals can't save a bad story.
aug 28, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Especially when those visuals have no style. Style beats detail every time, which is one of the reasons why you have literally hundreds of forgetable shooters cranked out year after year while TF2 still has an active playerbase after more than a decade.
aug 28, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
(JUST one of the reasons, don't @ me with the others, please.)
aug 28, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The entire conflict of the first movie revolves around a diplomat sent to negotiate with the indigenous population for rare minerals not doing his job because he was too busy being horny for the local princess, and then frames him as a hero for saving some of the lives he's endangered to get laid.
aug 29, 2025, 5:18 am • 0 0 • view
Is it visually great? Sure. But it's a far cry from a good film.
aug 29, 2025, 5:19 am • 0 0 • view
It's not good, and the poacher conflict of the second movie was insulting. They live in a future where you can build alien bodies to pilot around remotely, but somehow CAN'T analyze the chemical properties of Magic Space Whale brain juice to build a bacteria or yeast to make vats of it for them?!
aug 28, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, it's the metaphor for settler colonialism isn't it
aug 28, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
He's still doing a really bad job of it. I mean, even "well maybe it's just cheaper to get it from the whales" doesn't work. Cheaper to book interstellar passage for your team and equipment, face terrible danger from large alien creatures who don't want to die, then bring it all home? BULL. SHIT.
aug 28, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Some allegorical elements just don't work when you set them in space.
aug 28, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess I can accept that, in a future where interstellar travel is possible, that Earth still hasn't learned how to build a new element, and thus can't make their own "unobtainium," but the whale juice thing is beyond insulting.
aug 28, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
"I'd like to see the cost of lasagna come down" - Garfield
aug 29, 2025, 8:34 am • 5 0 • view
Dude, your last Avatar movie made around $2,000,000,000 in profit, I'm sure you can afford to pay your hard-working VFX artists a proper wage.
aug 29, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
My daughter works in VFX - people need to understand just how hard these people work and how specialized their talent is. There are at least 1000 people in the world who could do Cameron’s job. And he made buckets of money. Artists don’t make nearly as much as he does.
aug 29, 2025, 1:39 am • 3 0 • view
"Things that make me lots of money should cost less so I can make more money"
aug 29, 2025, 5:02 am • 6 0 • view
When Cameron works for free, then he can comment on how much others are paid.
aug 29, 2025, 12:32 pm • 1 0 • view
well, that's easy - stop using VFX. Dont need it to make a good movie if you have the talent
aug 29, 2025, 7:16 am • 0 0 • view
Why does my movie that every new installment keeps raising the bar for CGI and keep inventing revolutionary new technology that's never been used before cost so much more money? Can you be more out of touch?
aug 29, 2025, 12:15 am • 2 0 • view
Ungrateful bastard who's whole career is built on the backs of VFX artist says what?!?!?! "You know my slaves are too expensive. Lets make cheaper slaves" is peak colonizer mentaliity.
aug 28, 2025, 9:58 pm • 15 0 • view
Y'know... The story was tired and cliche to the point that all it /really/ had going for it was that it was pretty. And that was all the VFX artists. So all I can infer from that statement is that Cameron's films aren't gonna get any better story-wise. And /he/ isn't taking a pay cut, soo---
aug 29, 2025, 12:29 am • 2 0 • view
I'd like you to eat my entire ass, James Cameron, but we can't always get what we want.
aug 28, 2025, 6:04 pm • 14 0 • view
I’d like to see James Cameron and every other cheap-ass wannabe slave driver management dipshit fuck off into the sun, but I guess we’ll all have to learn to live with disappointment.
aug 28, 2025, 7:35 pm • 5 0 • view
CG VFX artists are some of the most overworked & underpaid ppl in the industry, barely any labor protections, the business model is already VFX studios lowball bidding against each other to do it for cheaper & faster until its not even possible to do it well.
aug 29, 2025, 1:33 am • 5 0 • view
One actual problem with ballooning costs is layers of producers & filmmaking execs who constantly want reworked/redone VFX shots throughout pre/post/production
aug 29, 2025, 1:37 am • 4 1 • view
No
aug 28, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
digital VFX artists need to get unionized asap. this is bloody dire.
aug 29, 2025, 5:00 am • 10 0 • view
Last nail in the Cameron coffin.
aug 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 2 0 • view
What a shitbird.
aug 29, 2025, 2:25 am • 2 0 • view
Ok. Pivot to popsicle stick puppets
aug 29, 2025, 3:20 am • 0 0 • view
Wait but don't the bulk of a movie's costs come from inflated advertising costs from hiring a subsidiary of themselves to claim they made the movie at a loss and Hollywood math themselves into a write-off?
aug 29, 2025, 3:49 am • 6 0 • view
I like the idea of blockbusters not happening anymore. The should double their rates
aug 28, 2025, 8:21 pm • 3 0 • view
Fuck him
aug 29, 2025, 7:31 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe if Mr. Cameron cut on some latte and avocado toasts he could afford paying for those top notch professionals...
aug 28, 2025, 9:53 pm • 4 0 • view
Says someone’s who’s making millions in large part because of their labor
aug 29, 2025, 3:06 pm • 13 1 • view
While that gives me another reason to dislike James Cameron, I didn't need one.
aug 28, 2025, 11:07 pm • 3 0 • view
Cameron: “Why are people asking to be paid to accomplish MY dreams?”
aug 28, 2025, 8:36 pm • 32 0 • view
Well interesting to see Cameron has lost his mind. Well, he had a nice run.
aug 28, 2025, 8:05 pm • 7 0 • view
This mfer is so mad that vfx people unionized
aug 29, 2025, 2:09 am • 5 0 • view
Maybe if you didn’t make films that were entirely composed of fx shots 🤷
aug 28, 2025, 10:30 pm • 5 0 • view
Hard up for cash, James?
aug 28, 2025, 10:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe he should make movies more people want to see? As opposed to another Avatar movie that costs millions and that nobody asked for?
aug 28, 2025, 7:23 pm • 10 0 • view
Bad enough to be a rich millionaire and complain about "VFX costs too much" while making VFX heavy movies that suck, but to specifically say "VFX artists" is so fucking offensive. Somebody sit Jim down in a cubicle and make him model in Maya for 10 hours straight and lets see how he feels after.
aug 28, 2025, 8:00 pm • 139 3 • view
But, but, he’s seen the actual Titanic. He deserves all the monies. /s
aug 29, 2025, 3:05 am • 6 0 • view
send him down again
aug 29, 2025, 3:52 am • 9 0 • view
Fuck i hate these rich boomers.
aug 28, 2025, 6:30 pm • 89 0 • view
what a loser
aug 28, 2025, 11:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Man who criticized OceanGate's CEO doesn't realize when his own ship is sinking. I guess he doesn't have a Way with Water
aug 28, 2025, 7:49 pm • 23 0 • view
Soon his career with be Fire and Ash
aug 28, 2025, 10:24 pm • 9 0 • view
I'd like to see James Cameron buried under 20 tons of reeking shit so I guess we'll both have to get used to disappointment
aug 28, 2025, 7:17 pm • 7 0 • view
Eat the rich Eat the rich Itadakimasu, bitch
aug 29, 2025, 11:17 am • 12 0 • view
Isn't it literally his job to organize the whole thing and make it work? Like I have a lot of unfeasible movie ideas. I want to shoot a film on the Moon, can Moon landings be cheaper?
aug 28, 2025, 9:40 pm • 2 0 • view
all the people using this to attack VFX artists can suck shit. your dumbasses couldn't tell the difference between a practical and digital effect that didn't have an alien, monster, or superhero in it to save your lives.
aug 29, 2025, 1:19 am • 0 0 • view
yes, director of Avatar, the movie that all anyone remembers about it was that it was pretty. and who did all the work to make that movie pretty, James? the only reason that movie made a billion was they doubled the ticket prices to see it.
aug 29, 2025, 1:06 am • 1 0 • view
If only James Cameron knew a director who had a history of making incredible looking practical effects that still hold up today on zero budget.
aug 28, 2025, 8:04 pm • 8 1 • view
“My movies that make the most money ever need to cost less to make”
aug 28, 2025, 9:45 pm • 59 0 • view
That right there.
aug 28, 2025, 9:53 pm • 6 0 • view
Avatar is known for its great cgi and VFX effects wtf is he smoking.
aug 29, 2025, 7:51 am • 1 0 • view
His movies cost a state's GDP because he can't self-edit, not because he has to pay people to animate his schlocky movies.
aug 28, 2025, 10:33 pm • 3 0 • view
I guess I'm gonna watch next movie totally legal, if he's stands on hard working artists who are underpaid as heck are this.
aug 29, 2025, 1:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Not surprising coming from a man with an ego the size of the Titanic.🚢
aug 29, 2025, 6:40 am • 0 0 • view
Do the VFX yourself then, James
aug 28, 2025, 8:16 pm • 12 0 • view
"Think of the Blockbusters!!1!" Not exactly the rallying cry for exploitation he seems to think it is.
aug 28, 2025, 9:46 pm • 24 0 • view
the fight to globally eradicate all gen AI is at the intersection of everyone's basic rights. from the invasive and totalitarian surveillance, to the theft of both labor & private data, to the destruction of human knowledge, to the militarized use of it, to the environmental and public health harm.
aug 28, 2025, 9:54 pm • 13 0 • view
It's almost amazing how elites took every issue they caused and just went, "What if we made a machine that does all of this at once?" Just straight up economizing destruction
aug 29, 2025, 6:11 am • 2 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 8:21 pm • 6 0 • view
Definitely would want to encourage Cameron to try and make that shit himself so he can fully understand how much knowledge goes into understanding a VFX workflow at all, let alone doing it efficiently or at the cutting edge of technology.
aug 28, 2025, 11:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Crazy the lack of self awareness here. VFX artists are the reason he has anywhere near this fame. They've been an essential part of his success. So to basically say "I want VFX artists devalued & to need fewer" is such a huge slap in the face, and I feel for the people working on his films right now
aug 28, 2025, 11:43 pm • 13 2 • view
This sounds like a guy pulling up the ladder after making it to the top. Sad from someone who cut their teeth on practical FX (Galaxy of Terror) and matte paintings (Escape From NY).
aug 29, 2025, 2:14 am • 5 1 • view
Classic capitalist. Pay the workers less to make me rich.
aug 29, 2025, 8:28 am • 5 0 • view
He's mad nobody likes his shitty Avatar movies.
aug 28, 2025, 6:15 pm • 61 0 • view
The first Avatar's plot was simply a poorly rehash of "Dance with Wolves" and only got big due to how innovative the effects looked at the time; He somehow thought Avatar 2 would be the same, and is now mad it barely paid itself enough for Disney to greenlit a third movie after it costed that much+
aug 29, 2025, 7:23 am • 8 0 • view
+ and somehow he thinks underpaying even more already underpaid artists and other SFX workers will somehow fix his insistence on selling a movie with effects only he thinks is cool (Avatar 2's color grading is atrocious) instead of making a simpler movie with a good plot instead
aug 29, 2025, 7:26 am • 10 0 • view
lol Cameron literally wouldn’t have a career without vfx artists, but sure, fuck them, right?
aug 28, 2025, 8:09 pm • 56 0 • view
I'd like Jimmy to go down
aug 29, 2025, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
"I don't like how much of the profit goes to the thousands of people who do most of the work." - Every rich piece of shit ever
aug 28, 2025, 8:12 pm • 204 26 • view
I'd rather never see another Avatar movie made than for effects artists to be replaced because their already meager salaries are some how "too much."
aug 28, 2025, 9:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Someone remind me, how much did he make off the backs of those same VFX artists from the first two movies?
aug 28, 2025, 10:32 pm • 6 0 • view
Sure Jim, lower wages, but you first. Actually, no, just stop with you.
aug 28, 2025, 11:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Pretty sure paying VFX Artists a living wage for their work is literally billions of times less expensive than denying entire countries water and electricity just so you can make the worst-looking cloud effect ever seen
aug 29, 2025, 1:02 pm • 13 1 • view
Hey VFX artists? Unionize. Now. Before your wages get even worse.
aug 28, 2025, 7:48 pm • 39 0 • view
There's a degree to which being out-of-touch becomes actively malicious
aug 28, 2025, 11:28 pm • 5 0 • view
Board member of an AI Company that wants to spend less on artists?
aug 28, 2025, 10:21 pm • 17 0 • view
Not even board members, given the number of writers who use it.
aug 28, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
So they want free labor.
aug 28, 2025, 7:57 pm • 9 0 • view
what every AI grifters dreams about.
aug 29, 2025, 1:19 am • 3 0 • view
and i thought they said that AI is supposed to make the work cheaper
aug 28, 2025, 8:01 pm • 3 0 • view
sounds like a skill issue on mr cameron's part
aug 28, 2025, 8:02 pm • 2 0 • view
ha ha ha yeah now fuck off
aug 29, 2025, 8:17 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe write a blockbuster that doesn't require 99% of the film be CGI.
aug 28, 2025, 7:34 pm • 17 0 • view
Slopatar
aug 28, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
"Overexploited employees should be cheaper" 🙄 Hollywood's malpractices elevate prices of VFX simply by bad planning and companies go bankrupt when they not only don't get paid enough but end up in debt once the work is done 😤
aug 29, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 1 • view
i hope no vfx artist touches his avatar movie in the future
aug 28, 2025, 10:36 pm • 4 0 • view
What a piece of shit lol
aug 28, 2025, 10:01 pm • 3 0 • view
I haven't liked any of his movies since Terminator 2
aug 29, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
The man who pisses money away on R&D really shouldn't bitch about paying workers.
aug 29, 2025, 6:34 am • 3 0 • view
I'd like to see the cost of james cameron come down
aug 28, 2025, 9:58 pm • 2 0 • view
What I'd like to see come down on James Cameron, I can't say, because I'd get tagged for a TOS violation.
aug 28, 2025, 10:21 pm • 4 0 • view