Disney laying off Marvel Studios team and Visual development Team, this comes as part of the company restructuring.

Wes Burt on X and bsky

Replaced by AI?

Producer Patrick over on Instagram Reels was mentioning about as part of the layoffs Disney is going to use more AI

Link: Instagram Producer Patrick

Andy Park

With the Marvel Design Team. He was instrumental as one of the guys setting the art direction for The MCU.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GCQfj5yJs/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://nerdist.com/article/marvel-layoffs-andy-park-head-of-visual-development-team

End of an Era at Marvel

Steven Zapata on Why Fire the visual development Team

Build Your Own thing

Anthony Francisco who left 4 years agot according to his X Thread posted about this while he left early on it shows that big companies hire you to help advance their goals forst

https://www.threads.com/@anthony_francisco_art/post/DXNSvusEjZT?xmt=AQF0PTBF9lVw2pBdcs0qWE5JzdpBt3YCeuynROW9l9hqOcSBdy66YDee3kLACZQE4-MMmkPR&slof=1

One thing he mentioned is he is working on a Roblox game of his own, which is a good thing now in this economy to have your own stuff to fall back on, its not easy starting from scratch but maybe its the way forward for artist in this AI ERA.

Old video interview with the Team

Links

Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/s/zW3xmqOU5P

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2026/04/14/disney-layoffs-hit-marvel-studios-hard/

https://www.comicsbeat.com/layoffs-hit-marvel-entertainment-and-marvel-studios

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