The IATSE Local 839 Color Designer Committee is fighting for gender pay equity in Color Design — one of The Animation Guild’s most female-dominated crafts.
Color Design is the last step in the pre-production design process. It entails creating color palettes for all animated assets in a production: characters, props, and effects.
Historically, this work was done in the Ink and Paint department, and women were relegated to this department in the early days of animation. Now, many of the jobs in that department are gone from union animation studios. But Color Design is a survivor. Still female dominated, Color Designers have had to advocate for pay equity with design colleagues.
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