[yurymik]

> thousands of people, you see in the end credits

if you look closely, those usually on-set people, medics, drivers, catering services - those who have unions. VFX companies in most of the cases have a dozen of entries out of hundreds who actually worked on the title, or just a single line company mention. I could understand this practice in cellulose era, but saving a few megabytes at the cost of disrespect to your workers is simply despicable.

[MrScruff]

It's not quite that bad, the vast majority of people who work on a Marvel project at a vfx vendor will get a credit, though often in a huge bank of names. It's true that the ordering is driven by historical considerations which is why vfx credits typically aren't that high.

I think the issue with credits is nothing to do with the storage, it's to do with the impact of the run time of the film.

[ivan_gammel]

Marvel made their fans watching all credits because of a teaser of a next movie at the very end, so I did it a few times: it actually feels like VFX is consuming now the biggest part of the credits with several production units and at least a few hundred people.

[plastic3169]

It would be nice to have statistics. People say VFX heavy blockbuster film has few thousand people working out of which 2/3 can be VFX artists.

Even Oppenheimer had over hundred artists and it’s famous for not having any VFX. https://www.cartoonbrew.com/ideas-commentary/christopher-nol...