Thursday, August 29, 2019

Free ... Free ... FREE!

Apparently a sports star wants you to work for his greater glory .... gratis.

Are you an animator or artist? Visit http://www.shaqtoons.com to download one of my stories and use it as the inspiration for an original cartoon that YOU draw to life. If selected, you’ll be awarded $500 and your animation will be shown on my new show, Shaq Life. Good luck!

Of course, it's not exactly Shaq asking for this. It's Time-Warner-Turner-AT&T asking for this. (You know, a poor little hand-to-mouth entertainment conglomerate.)

It's the usual scam from the usual low-lifes, except these low-lifes are in tailored suits drawing large, large salaries: Hey suckers! Just bust your backsides turning outsomething for a large company, and if the large company likes it, said company will throw you some crumbs (and a teensy bit of publicity!) Oh, but don't think about using anything you do, because if you send it to us, it's OURS, whether we use it or not.

And it seems this whole deal hasn't gone down too well with the people who do animation for a living. (Can't fathom why.)

... That’s like... more than several grand’s worth of work you’re just expecting animators to do in their spare time for only one of em to get paid a fraction of the cost for it.... Nah ...

And so on. The problem is, there will be SOMEBODY who will rise to the paltry bait, because there are a lot of hungry artists out in internet land.

Add On:No, definitely not going down well:

The creative community has called foul on his “Shaqtoons” idea, with hundreds of animators and other artists in creative fields lambasting the concept.

And kindly note that this kind of thing isn't new, nor is it rare. It's just not usually done by a jillion dollar conglomerate.

Add On Too: And as you can see, the snark has gotten the big company to (grudgingly?) up the ante:

To all my animators out there, I heard you. I love your work and want you to feel the love. If your cartoon is selected, you’ll be awarded $10,000 and your animation will be shown on my new show, Shaq Life. Can’t wait to see what you got! http://Shaqtoons.com

Ah, how bad blowback can change money totals (which are still ridiculously, pathetically low.)

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