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So it's a bit of a mess. But things have now gone from bad to worse, as it turns out the film has even failed to credit key production staff behind one of Borderlands' main characters. Robbie Reid, who goes by the helpful handle "Robbie Reid the Rigger", says he worked on rigging the movie's Claptrap model for five months straight, the process which essentially gives a CG model a skeleton that animators can then manipulate. It is obviously a crucial job and, when it comes to Claptrap, we're talking about arguably Borderlands' most recognisable figure.

"This time 3 years ago I was rigging the CG asset of Claptrap for the Borderlands movie," said Reid on X. "I worked on him for 5 consecutive months. Neither I, nor the artist who modelled him (Who I worked with the entire time), got a credit for the film."

Reid goes on to say that this is the first time such a thing has happened to him, so he's "exceptionally lucky", but nevertheless "it just stings that the one to finally break the streak was the last film I worked on at a studio. And for such a significant character too."

According to the IMDB list of all cast and crew, Borderlands credits eight riggers from various disciplines (electrical, visual effects, stunts), but Reid's name isn't among them.

The Claptrap model Reid worked on appears to be the one used in the final movie, and Reid speculates the omission may just be because he and the artist left their former studio in 2021 and "it took the film this long to come out". In response to someone trying to pin the blame on Randy Pitchford (!), Reed stresses this is "a common problem in the industry. Definitely not the fault of any singular person, and would be wrong to suggest this."

 

[FoxMcChief]

I figured Jack Black did it all.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Relax Robbie Reid.

When it comes to media, nobody outside of production staff gets credited at all. It's rare you see any sales, marketing, finance, legal, HR in any credits. So chill out.

It's so skewed to the production, the end credits will even list which company provided lunch catering over the VP of Sales or Marketing.