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These workers encompass various roles, such as creatures, costume leads, and environment artists, spanning across departments like stage, environments, render, post viz, sequence, turnover, and kabuki.

A group of visual effects artists who work on director James Cameron and Disney's "Avatar" films have voted to unionize with IATSE.

IATSE successfully unionizes its first group of "vendor-side" VFX artists

Workers at a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios opted to join the crew union in a National Labor Relations Board vote tally on Tuesday.

Group includes artists working across James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment productions, including the ‘Avatar’ films; the group wins IATSE representation through an NLRB election, a first for U.S. vendor-side VFX artists. 

A group of visual effects artists who work on director James Cameron and Disney's "Avatar" films have voted to unionize with IATSE.

Lighstorm Entertainment has agreed to form its own union following the success of Marvel and Disney VFX artists.

Like Disney and Marvel Studios before them, nearly 100 VFX artists at Lightstorm Entertainment will vote to form a union at the production company.

Group includes 83 artists working across James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment productions, including ‘Avatar’ films, who are seeking representation by IATSE, marking the first U.S. vendor-side VFX artist filing with the NLRB.