Movie Leaked
Hi guys! Regarding the Avatar animated movie being leaked before its release many people are saying if you watch it you are disrespecting the animators and it’s selfish but I wanted to add some nuance to this and hear it from the opinions of animators pretending it was their work. Let’s say you worked so hard on a movie and it wasn’t going to come out in theatres anymore but it’s finished and it’s going to stream. Someone leaked it online the whole thing with good quality and everything and many people start watching it and others don’t want to because they are respecting the animators. I understand as an animator you might be upset but say if someone was going to commit suicide that day and an old fried reached out to them who he hasn’t spoken too in a while that an AVATAR movie was leaked a franchise they loved as kids and he invited him to come watch it at his place and make plans despite being years of them not talking and they watch the leak and have a great time and it brought a lot of much needed happiness to the individual who was very depressed. As an animator would you still be pissed they watched it? I feel like as animators you guys want to bring joy to the world with animation and make people smile and I’m not saying you can’t feel bad or upset at people who watched your leak movie but if you already got paid and finished the project and the movie got leaked and it’s bringing a lot of people together and giving them a great time and they love it and they have family time is that not something that would still put a smile on your face? Sure they can be a little selfish for still watching the leak but I wouldn’t go ahead and say that only bad things have come from that right? Albeit if the animators weren’t going to be paid anymore because the movie got leaked that’s a different story and in that case I would hope people would want the animators to be paid so I think people think that animators have already gotten paid.
This is just scenarios for some fun nuance thinking so I’m curious to see any opinions!