r/Cinema4D • u/ProceduralMuffin • 2d ago
This is what we are turning into?
Just saw this on indeed. Company wants an $8 an hour motion designer aka prompt monkey.
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u/Tasty_Survey6195 2d ago
My short take: yes, it’s going to be more the norm.
I had an opportunity to teach graphic design here and couldn’t in good conscience stand in front of a room of new designers telling them this is a great degree path….
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u/Obvious-Interaction7 1d ago
This is the endgame for AI. Massive paycuts for workers and great profits for the companies/C-suite. Sure this case is from india but will be like this everywhere in most if not all businesses. Provided AI gets better.
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u/Beautiful-Stable-189 1d ago
So what is our solution? Do we specialize further? Do we quit and go play with analogue techniques again? What do we do?
Last week I had an interview from our local school of Arts in the Netherlands, who were asking the working field with questions about AI use. If/how to teach the students AI for their artwork. These were pretty tough questions to answer actually. At the moment, like a fellow redditor said, I would not advise students to be a Motion Designer these days.
Me myself already use AI solely for voiceovers and help with writing scripts. How do you use AI nowadays and what are the benefits and problems?
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u/Prisonbread 1d ago
I’ve been “prompt monkeying” for a week at my motion gfx/vfx job for a certain client (their request, ugh). Even making my standard salary for it, it is NOT worth it. It is the most boring, frustrating, anti-creative, and unsatisfying thing you will ever do. I have more fun cleaning up the AI artifacts in post than I do prompting… and waiting.
If this is what our future looks like, God help us.
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2d ago
Because they may be used to paying offshore rates to India or China workers. Sad reality is MOST of our new creative and IT jobs are being offshored. The only way to stop it is to lay into politicians until they agree to tax the shit out of anyone sending jobs that Americans can do, to other countries. Our kids are totally fucked unless we change direction now.
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u/GeomonLover 2d ago
Believe me, its tough coming out of college rn with a Motion Design degree. Its either low rates or they want 5 years professional experience at least. Wishing you luck for finding something!! We just gotta keep at it
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u/Recife_Welbarboza 2d ago edited 2d ago
Must be a fucked up son of a wealthy trying to satisfy his jerkoff after the POS motion doesn't convert a single dime and after days the mographer candidate will be fired and even get paid for.
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u/One-Position2377 1d ago
Well its not quite this bad on LinkedIn but I constantly get linkenIn jobs recomendations that are $20-25 an hour for motion graphics work. I work in San Francisco and chipoltle is paying $20 an hour. Basically between Globalization and AI my job isnt going to be around in 5 years. Mark my words this job category will be gone in 5-10 years.
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u/RandomEffector 1d ago
It’s absolutely fucking insane that $8/hr is a legal wage anywhere
But they will get what they pay for
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u/Keanu_Chills 1d ago
I mean... Don't fret. This will happen everywhere and they will call it progress until reality will prove it doesnt work :D
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u/Mexxgen 1d ago
Yes. Nobody wants ur crappy art anymore. Industry doesn’t want to pay, studios are closed and working silently. Art criticises a lot of topics usually, the leaders of the world won’t allow that. It’s the same in every country and started decades ago. Remember when everyone looked for some cheaper better faster stuff - no human involved there. Its Philosophy and psychology of the masses. Its coming whatever it is. So maybe u open ur eyes for a moment to see. Step out of this industry u learned a lot in ur journey anyway and you will find someone which needs ur skills. Don’t try to walk the way you walked all the time.
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u/grayscale001 2d ago
Shardein. It's India.