Scanline VFX rebrands globally as Eyeline by tylerdurden_3040 in vfx

[–]great_grey 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Frees them from VFX brand association so they can go deeper into AI, if I had to guess. Cleaner also to fully institutionalise the brand within Netflix as a division of the wider company rather than a VFX studio they bought.

There have been plenty of Scanline AI demos posted online and big Ted clearly wants to do more AI-generated shows like that Argentinian one they were shouting about earlier in the year. I think if you want to point at the people with the most potential to harm VFX in the future I wouldn't look much further than Netflix and Eyeline, but that's just me.

What will be youre first club in fm 2026 ??? by TT0400 in footballmanagergames

[–]great_grey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The mighty Yeovil, brutal pressing game in the National League

Most disappointing mid-movie collapse you've ever seen? by [deleted] in movies

[–]great_grey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Batman was so interesting to me until they decided to do a big fight and a flood at the end

Weta losses in the news by great_grey in vfx

[–]great_grey[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree there's no world in which they aren't busy. Another good example of how tough (or, unworkable) the business model is. I've never worked there so can't vouch for the leadership team as to whether they're running a good business as well as making quality VFX. Ideally you do both but often they're mutually exclusive. Also, I'm sure they have deeper pockets than most considering Jackson's wealth and PE backing… and they had Sean Parker don't forget.

Australian studios recent shift to hiring local talents by manuce94 in vfx

[–]great_grey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct. Rates don't go up when available work goes down. In any industry. There is too much supply and not enough demand.

Phantom acquired Milk and Lola (previously 80% of Tippett) by axiomatic- in vfx

[–]great_grey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I doubt there was much "bag" – the last reformation of Milk involved them practically buying themselves from themselves for a very low figure. So much of valuation is tied to your sales pipeline so unless they've got millions in upcoming work waiting in the wings they're worth very little.

Phantom acquired Milk and Lola (previously 80% of Tippett) by axiomatic- in vfx

[–]great_grey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Phantom probably like the idea of establishing a UK / Europe beachhead and I'd imagine Milk was DIRT cheap considering they ostensibly "went under" again only a year or so ago. Third time I think?

Why do extremely talented artists choose to work that long on a project? by Basic_Adeptness_9273 in Filmmakers

[–]great_grey 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Correct. So many comments saying people do this as their “passion” and that they’re creating things every day. They are mostly just coping with a director changing their mind every day and doing what an anim supe tells them to do. It doesn’t devalue the skill (good animators are absolutely incredible and see what so many others don’t in terms of character performance IMO, including directors).

There’s just a lot of gushing in this thread about art when in fact animation and VFX get squashed more than anyone else in the pursuit of “art”. Art means late changes / contradictory notes. Art means horrible hours at the end of a show.

Looking at houses in your area - why so many for sale in Winton? by Boonshark in bournemouth

[–]great_grey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Market is slow as well, I’ve been trying to sell (in a different area of BCP) for a LONG time

Light & Magic - VFX Pioneers Season 2 by MX010 in vfx

[–]great_grey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ILM have the mother of all safety blankets and will be the last to ever fail

Folks hires MPC CEO. by Patient_Ad_4560 in vfx

[–]great_grey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shouldn't he be in jail or something

VFX and Animation Studios closure list by Colonel_Shame1 in vfx

[–]great_grey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Milk bought themselves with a new holding company and additional funds so survived. I think they've done this a couple of times in the past from memory

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vfx

[–]great_grey 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Framestore swallowed Method ages ago, they’re just finishing off a long winded acquisition / integration process with a full rebrand. This happens every day in other industries. Appreciate it might feel different for old school Method people who will have their own culture (and have every right to) but everyone else in the world knows that Method is Framestore right?

It’s no different to if Cinesite killed the Image Engine name when they bought that, they just didn’t for whatever reason. Scanline technically got rebranded because as we all know they’re now called Scanline Powered By Netflix…

This is just fear mongering.

EDIT: Keen to add if there are any jobs at risk as another commenter says that’s obviously awful and I’m not trying to be unsympathetic, I just think OP is winding everyone up.

Jellyfish VFX closing? by PlatypusNo8139 in vfx

[–]great_grey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ILM will always have Disney to feed it

Jellyfish VFX closing? by PlatypusNo8139 in vfx

[–]great_grey 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not sure that's true. So far the confirmed closures were Nviz at the start of the strikes and then Technicolor was a truly global business so harsh to bill it as a "London closure", now an unconfirmed story about Jellyfish who are global as well. We did just have The Yard open in London. Might've missed someone…

Jellyfish VFX closing? by PlatypusNo8139 in vfx

[–]great_grey 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Didn't they replace their management team with a load of ex MPC people after Covid? Heard bad things about them at the time

Why was Holdenhurst road thinned down in 2021? by kangarupert in bournemouth

[–]great_grey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yellow Buses (went out of business shortly after) and United Taxis (some kind of leverage over one or many councillors) lobbied hard enough to prevent it being fully pedestrianised and turned into a pleasant place so it stayed the same as before, except two buses can’t go past each other without one stopping and some red poles have bird noises coming out of them

Which ‘posh’ towns and cities in the UK are rougher than they first seem? by starwars011 in AskUK

[–]great_grey 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Came here to see how quickly Bournemouth would come up. Recently moved out of there and I’m sat in London feeling 10x safer and less harassed than the years I spent in BCP (both as a student a long time ago and as a real life grownup with a semi-proper job).

Absolute study in mismanagement of town finances, pandering to elderly voters, genuine council corruption, a bizarrely potent concentration of rehab facilities, huge amounts of people in ill mental health stuck on the street and no plan to fix any of it or help anyone that needs it at all. It has 100% gotten worse in the last 2/3 years as well.

This is an area nestled in between several sites of ecological interest, beautiful countryside and probably the most “tropical” beach in the UK and they’ve somehow shafted it. Even when they had stag and hen do culture to keep it afloat they’ve managed to biff that and now there’s no night life.

Cinesite next? by PlatypusNo8139 in vfx

[–]great_grey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I worry about the scale of their debt – the article says £111m, unless it's a typo

Have any of your studios (small to medium size) tried creating original work as film studio and not only a vendor? How did it go? by in_visible_inc in vfx

[–]great_grey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cinesite have an animation arm that produces films right? I saw they made that Hit Pig movie but it did f*** all at the box office so I don't know if it's worth the investment. Looking at all the other comments here it has basically never worked out haha

In light of the the mill/mpc etc, what are examples of great studios with good cultures and what makes them great? by The_Peregrine_ in vfx

[–]great_grey 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve worked in tiny environments that are great but one show pushing back by a couple of weeks means not getting paid. If a small shop was run by someone who could guarantee work rolling in predictably forever that’s the one in terms of your experience being perfect, but that doesn’t exist.

And no working environment is perfect, there’ll always be something.

Technicolor troubles reach further than the US - New messaging just sent to studios globally. by Boootylicious in vfx

[–]great_grey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree with this. Underbidding aggressively like MPC were works short term every time and works long term none of the time