hi!!!! there been news articles saying that the working conditions of spiderverse were rlly rlly bad to the point of 100 ppl quitting or someting…. sorry to be liek an annoying reporter and b kinda invasive but is this tru D:
the big article that came out, for anyone curious: https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/spider-verse-animation-four-artists-on-making-the-sequel.html
there are some aspects about the article that i don't feel comfortable commenting on, but yes a lot of animators did quit. a lot of it had to do with the issues mentioned in the article, but a lot also left because disney opened a studio in vancouver (where sony imageworks is located) and had to hire an entire crew. i don't blame people for leaving spiderverse to get in on being a part of establishing the disney vancouver studio
i will also say that some of the information going around is incorrect; we did not work 11 hours a day, 7 days a week for over a year. working 7 days a week is illegal, and though some people worked sundays, they were clearly told that they could not work the next saturday if they worked a sunday. we encouraged people to not work ghost hours, and OT was always optional (except for saturday work towards the end, but nobody was punished or anything if they couldn't work a saturday). we also get paid for OT. i was on the movie for over a year but we certainly weren't crunching that whole time. like the article said, we were idle for a long time
it was undeniably a hard movie to work on and with such a large crew, everyone had a wide variety of experiences. the anonymous animators in the article aren't wrong, but i will say that there are people that felt differently, or not as strongly as them. it's a complicated issue that doesn't have a simple solution
i just hope this doesn't tarnish your view of the movie. we worked hard on it and everyone's immense celebration of the animation is making all that hard work very worth it!
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eras tour setlist (detailed)
miss americana & the heartbreak prince (NOT full song)
cruel summer (chorus, bridge, chorus)
welcome/she's so happy to be on stage again + spoken introduction into
the man (full song)
you need to calm down (verse 2, chorus, bridge, chorus)
longer welcome speech, eras tour night 1, thanking fans for showing up & celebrating opening acts. telling crowd we're doing one era at a time!!!!
lover (full song) acoustic guitar
the archer (full song) + electric guitar solo for costume change
fearless (full song)
you belong with me (full song)
love story (full song)
video interlude - showing woods/trees - for costume change
'tis the damn season (verse 1, chorus, bridge, chorus)
willow (full song)
marjorie (verse 1, chorus, bridge, outro)
speech/ it's been so long that she's toured and so much has happened since (new albums + rerecordings) & she's missed us. says she loves evermore despite what people on tiktok think
champagne problems (full song) acoustic piano
introduction of new keys player
tolerate it (verse 1, chorus, bridge, 2nd chorus, outro)
snake video/visuals for costume change
...ready for it (full song)
delicate (full song)
don't blame me (intro, verse 1, chorus, bridge, chorus, outro) + extended outro leading into lwymmd
look what you made me do (full song)
snake visual + abstract pink/purple colors + enchanted audio intro for costume change
enchanted (verses 1 & 2, chorus, bridge, chorus, outro)
video interlude with red audio snippets
22 (whole song)
we are never ever getting back together (full song)
i knew you were trouble (verse 1, chorus, bridge, final chorus)
speech about the red album & taylor's version
all too well (full 10 minute song) acoustic guitar
interlude: spoken wildest dreams lyrics/spoken seven lyrics - for costume change
invisible string (full song)
speech talking about folklore album & wanting to do something different than autobiographical albums
betty (full song) acoustic guitar
the last great american dynasty (full song)
august (full song)
illicit affairs (bridge repeated twice, outro)
my tears ricochet (full song)
cardigan (full song)
interlude for costume change
style (verse 1, chorus, bridge, chorus)
blank space (full song)
shake it off (full song)
wildest dreams (verse 1, chorus, bridge)
bad blood (chorus, pre-chorus & chorus, bridge, final chorus)
interlude for costume change
speech - introducing surprise song & her goal is not to repeat any of these songs on tour
surprise song: mirrorball (full song) acoustic guitar
another speech at piano (my live cut out though so idk what she was talking about)
tim mcgraw (full song) piano acoustic
interlude - water/crashing waves turning into clouds
lavender haze (full song)
anti-hero (full song)
midnight rain (full song)
vigilante shit (full song)
bejeweled (full song)
mastermind (full song)
final song: karma (full song) + farewells & final bows
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