Documents found on a North Korean server suggest US studios may have unknowingly outsourced animation work | CNN Politics
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North Korean illustrators and graphic designers appear to have helped produce work for US animation studios unbeknownst to those companies, suggesting that unreleased episodes of a few popular American cartoons could include work from one of the most closed-off economies in the world.
  • ClaraBecker@threads.net@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Somehow, I’d never envisioned North Koreans surreptitiously performing remote work until today. Visibly offering prisoners as destructible laborers? Absolutely. Animation studio corrections? Way out of left field. WB cutting ties in January with the studio likely responsible for subcontracting to NK does seem a bit suspect, though.