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SAG-AFTRA Video Game Performers Hold Picket Outside WB Games as Strike Continues: ‘We Are Still Fighting’
Over seven months since declaring a strike, SAG-AFTRA video game performers braved the L.A. rain for their first picket of the year.
“Because of the wildfires and awards season and everything that the world is dealing with, this felt like the right time where we could get back into it all,” “Resident Evil Village” actor and member of the Interactive Media Agreement Negotiating Committee Andi Norris told Variety from the picket outside WB Games in Burbank. Several SAG-AFTRA voice performers at the picket expressed frustration that there’s still no resolution on the horizon, given that the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes, which addressed similar concerns about the use of artificial intelligence in media, were resolved in much less time. Publishers argue that motion capture work is largely used as an amalgamation of actors’ performances in video games and not something producers are capable of accounting for when it comes to compensation.
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