363 Marvel Studios disbands its invaluable Visual Development Team
MCU Fan Show - Marvel Studios commentary
Sean Gerber
4.5 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to MCU Fan Show episode 363. |
| 0:15.3 | My name is Sean Gerber, Flying Solo for this episode in which I will be discussing some news that has been very sad, |
| 0:22.9 | disappointing, and frustrating a topic that unlike usual things pertaining to news and |
| 0:30.6 | stories surrounding or from Marvel Studios in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, normally I'm |
| 0:34.9 | very excited to talk about this sort of stuff. |
| 0:37.6 | For this episode, I'm not all that excited to be discussing this topic. |
| 0:42.8 | I've been dreading this topic. |
| 0:44.8 | It's something I've needed to talk about for a while, but after getting the news last |
| 0:51.1 | month, wanted to first and foremost allow time for those who had been directly |
| 0:55.4 | impacted to share their own thoughts and their own feelings on the news and then of course |
| 1:00.7 | have an opportunity to discuss it myself here on MCU fan show and that is the news that we got |
| 1:07.3 | a handful of weeks ago, April of 2026, |
| 1:14.3 | that the Marvel Studios Visual Development Team, |
| 1:16.5 | effectively known as Vizdev, |
| 1:22.4 | has largely been dismantled amidst as part of a larger layoff that impacted over 1,000 individuals over at the Walt Disney Company. |
| 1:27.3 | So the Marvel Visual Development, Marvel Studios visual development team or Vizdev, |
| 1:32.5 | they have been dismantled. |
| 1:34.2 | The head of visual development at Marvel Studios, Ryan Minerding. |
| 1:38.3 | He is still at the studio, and there will be coordinators who are still staffed there who will manage the |
| 1:45.7 | hiring, the staffing of contractors to work on a project by project basis at the studio. |
| 1:52.9 | So there's still going to be concept art and visual development at Marvel Studios. |
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