Disney just fired the man who designed the visual identity of the entire MCU.
16 years. $30 billion at the box office. And they replaced him with freelancers.
I’m going to put all of Andy Park’s contributions in the comments so you realize who this man actually is.
Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.
In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.
Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.
Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.
Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.
Ribuan orang meninggal karena bencana, kelaparan & tempat tinggalnya hancur
Saat ada bantuan, konvoi bantuan dibubarkan, warga digebuk tentara, akses jurnalis pun dibatasi
Aceh people have nothing left, literally NOTHING LEFT!
Tell me how this is not a state terrorism?
Dari Kasus Laras dan semua kawan-kawan kita yang dikriminalisasi;
kita jadi tau kalau kita marah, nangis, ngamuk, sedih, kecewa ketika ada kejadian kayak gini – kita yang bakal masuk penjara.
Bukan yang ngelindes.
Sejak awal, yang dilakukan terhadap Laras bukan penegakan hukum, melainkan manajemen ketakutan.
Ketika pelindas tak dihukum namun kritik dipidana,
yang dijaga jelas bukan hukum, melainkan impunitas aparat.
Ini teror yang dilegalkan.
Dari segala banyak opini yang berseliweran, kita sering lupa satu hal penting:
Laras adalah warga biasa seperti kita, yang marah ketika melihat polisi MEMBUNUH Affan.
Maka mendukung Laras adalah sikap keberpihakan yang penting bahwa negara GAK BOLEH BUNUH warga serampangan.
Teror yang gue terima dalam 24 jam terakhir
Teror kayak gini ngga ngebantu masyarakat Sumatera. Toh semua lagi sibuk bantu pemulihan disana kan? Pemerintah, relawan, aparat, dokter teknisi. Bahwa masyarakat yang mengungkapn kebenaran keadaan disana jangan dianggap sebagai ancaman
Anyway reminder yaa teman2 gue masih membuka donasi untuk Aceh Tengah dan Bener Meriah di
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Stay safe semuanya.
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