Disney let go the people who built Marvel and the memo said nothing about AI
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Disney cut roughly 1,000 Marvel employees — including concept artist Andy Park, who designed the original Wasp suit — and the official memo said nothing about AI. Evangeline Lilly found out online, called Andy Park personally, and posted 'it's a bloodbath.' Emma's take: this isn't just a layoffs story. It's about what happens when a franchise becomes more valuable than the people who built it. The IP machine doesn't need the artists anymore. It has the art. Button: that's the actual horror movie.
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Okay so. Andy Park designed the original Wasp suit. He built a piece of the Marvel universe that made it into theaters, into merch, into the cultural memory of millions of people. Last week he was let go. Along with roughly a thousand other Marvel employees, most of them from the visual development team. The people who drew the thing.
Evangeline Lilly found out online. Not from Disney. Online. She called Andy Park personally to confirm it, then went on Instagram and said "it's a bloodbath at Disney, and Marvel Studios just took the worst of it." She wrote to Disney directly: "SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away." The official memo from CEO Josh D'Amaro described it as streamlining operations. No mention of AI. Just streamlining.
Here's the thing. The IP machine doesn't need the artists anymore. It has the art. It has decades of designs, concepts, character sheets, costume studies, visual language — all of it built by the people who just got walked out. You train a system on that library and you don't need Andy Park to design the next suit. You need someone to prompt it. That's not a layoffs story. That's a horror movie. And the scariest part is the memo that doesn't say anything at all.
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disney let go the people who built marvel and the memo didn't mention AI once #marvel #disney #entertainment #aiart
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