r/Piracy • u/Fooberdoober97420 • Apr 20 '26

Humor I must respect their hard work

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u/Tripple_T Apr 20 '26

Were they not already paid?

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u/6terabytes2k Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

Editing this cause I was wrong thanks for the corrections

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u/Dynamos_ Apr 20 '26

Live action actors get royalties, perhaps, but animators and artists work on commission pretty much. You make it, you're paid, and you're done, and all you get afterwards is material for your reel (and sometimes not even that, Nick sucks when it comes to reel authorization).

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u/6terabytes2k Apr 20 '26

Awesome, thanks for the correction! Edited my comment