The Vision

How Will Aeon Work?

Funding for the guilds would come through the Aeon nonprofit, which would act as a central patron and organizer without controlling the creative life of each guild. Donors, grants, and endowments given to Aeon would be distributed to guilds according to need and the merit of their projects, providing start up funds, stipends, and shared resources such as equipment, training, and workspaces. Each guild would then operate as an independent cooperative company, owned and governed by its artists, with its own revenues, internal rules, and profit sharing. In this way Aeon serves as a fountainhead that empowers local, self governing guilds, while avoiding the corporate monopoly and centralization that plague the modern art world. 

Animation Guilds

• Ownership & Structure: Owned by the animators, storyboarders, writers, directors, and voice talent together. No executives siphoning profits.
  
  

• Compensation: Profits divided proportionally based on contribution, with a strong baseline wage guaranteed for all. Animators are no longer disposable contractors.
  
  

• Production Efficiency: Focus on lean teams and apprenticeships (similar to Japanese anime studios, but without exploitation). Budgets stay focused on wages, not bloated overhead or executive pay.
  
  

• Localization: Smaller studios across different regions, each capable of producing shorts, episodes, or features, serving their local communities but also networking globally when needed.
  
  

Video Game Guilds

• Ownership & Structure: Designers, programmers, artists, composers, and writers all share in the guild. No publisher dictates or microtransaction schemes.
  
  

• Compensation: Instead of profit going to shareholders, it circulates back to guild members. Each project has revenue-sharing tied to actual labor.
  
  

• Production Efficiency: Games built smaller, truer to concept — not bloated “live service” models. More focus on artistry, less on marketing manipulation.
  
  

• Localization: Guilds can specialize in genres (RPG, indie platformers, strategy) and work regionally. Smaller communities of gamers directly support their local guild.
  
  

Publishing Guilds (Authors, Poets, Editors, etc.)

• Ownership & Structure: Authors and editors are co-owners. No monopoly of Big Five publishers.
  
  

• Compensation: Higher royalties than traditional publishing; editors and printers share fairly.
  
  

• Production Efficiency: Books produced with modest print runs, using localized presses or print-on-demand, drastically lowering costs.
  
  

• Localization: Guild presses in different cities publish both local voices and translated classics, fostering regional literary cultures.
  
  

Painting Guilds

• Ownership & Structure: Painters join together for workshops, studios, and exhibitions. They jointly own gallery space.
  
  

• Compensation: Collective exhibition fees cover rent and materials, with proceeds split according to sales.
  
  

• Production Efficiency: Focus on patron commissions and community exhibitions rather than corporate gallery monopolies.
  
  

• Localization: Regional galleries become cultural centers, encouraging sacred art, portraiture, and local commissions.
  
  

Film Guilds

• Ownership & Structure: Actors, directors, writers, camera operators, editors, costume designers all co-own productions.
  
  

• Compensation: Profits distributed fairly, not skewed toward executives or celebrity actors. Writers finally share in the film’s success.
  
  

• Production Efficiency: Smaller, regional productions avoid the hundreds of millions wasted in Hollywood. Budgets concentrate on actual craft and wages.
  
  

• Localization: Local film guilds create features rooted in their region’s culture, history, and folklore. Hollywood loses its monopoly on the “American story.”
  
  

Television Guilds

• Ownership & Structure: Writers, directors, actors, and crews own their own serialized works.
  
  

• Compensation: No “residual theft.” guild members always share in revenue from reruns and streaming.
  
  

• Production Efficiency: Smaller budgets, more creative freedom, avoiding bloat from centralized studio executives.
  
  

• Localization: Local guilds create shows tied to their culture, community, and faith, distributed online or via regional channels.
  
  

Theater Guilds

• Ownership & Structure: Actors, playwrights, directors, and stagehands own their playhouse together.
  
  

• Compensation: Ticket sales split fairly after covering costs.
  
  

• Production Efficiency: Emphasis on repertory plays and local productions, not Broadway monopolies.
  
  

• Localization: Each guild playhouse becomes a cultural hub in its city, rooted in community storytelling.
  
  

Dance Guilds

• Ownership & Structure: Dancers, choreographers, musicians own their troupe cooperatively.
  
  

• Compensation: Ticket revenue and patronage distributed among members.
  
  

• Production Efficiency: Focus on smaller, more intimate performances rather than billion-dollar “spectacle productions.”
  
  

• Localization: Regional dance guilds cultivate distinct schools and styles, keeping dance alive in parishes and communities.
  
  

Sculpture Guilds

• Ownership & Structure: Sculptors, stone carvers, metalworkers share workshop space and tools.
  
  

• Compensation: Commissions shared fairly; large projects divided among artisans.
  
  

• Production Efficiency: Guild workshops avoid inflated costs of galleries and agents.
  
  

• Localization: Sculptors focus on civic art, sacred art, and beautifying local towns and churches.
  
  

Why This Model Beats Corporations

• No Executive Drain: In Hollywood, most of the budget goes to executives, celebrity salaries, and marketing. Under guilds, funds go directly to artists.
  
  

• Fair Pay for Writers & Animators: Writers and animators become co-owners. They must share in the profits of the work they helped create. No more disposable gig-work.
  
  

• Localized Efficiency: Instead of $200 million blockbusters, guild films or animations could thrive on $2–10 million budgets by cutting out corporate waste.
  
  

• Centralization Only When Necessary: Aeon Guild Foundation acts only to coordinate global projects or preserve archives. Otherwise, each guild is independent, local, and free.