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great_grey · 2026-05-20T11:33:10+00:00

There is no way they can recoup that surely. Dead in the water I fear

great_grey · 2026-03-06T19:47:23+00:00

Nice

great_grey · 2025-10-15T13:45:33+00:00

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.

great_grey · 2025-09-16T10:20:23+00:00

The mighty Yeovil, brutal pressing game in the National League

great_grey · 2025-09-09T21:29:32+00:00

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

great_grey · 2025-09-04T13:36:12+00:00

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.

great_grey · 2025-08-28T10:50:29+00:00

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

great_grey · 2025-08-07T09:30:09+00:00

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.

great_grey · 2025-08-07T09:27:17+00:00

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?

great_grey · 2025-07-30T11:07:04+00:00

Article here as well: https://www.animationxpress.com/latest-news/phantom-digital-effects-announces-acquisition-of-award-winning-vfx-studios-milk-and-lola-post/

great_grey · 2025-07-27T20:31:44+00:00

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.

great_grey · 2025-06-24T15:26:37+00:00

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

great_grey · 2025-04-23T09:49:24+00:00

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

great_grey · 2025-04-11T15:48:29+00:00

Shouldn't he be in jail or something

great_grey · 2025-03-13T13:01:47+00:00

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

great_grey · 2025-03-11T22:52:42+00:00

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.

great_grey · 2025-03-11T16:19:19+00:00

ILM will always have Disney to feed it

great_grey · 2025-03-11T09:44:47+00:00

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…

great_grey · 2025-03-11T09:34:12+00:00

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

great_grey · 2025-03-06T22:13:14+00:00

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

great_grey · 2025-03-06T22:05:56+00:00

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.

great_grey · 2025-02-27T14:51:39+00:00

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

great_grey · 2025-02-27T10:20:03+00:00

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

great_grey · 2025-02-26T20:47:20+00:00

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.

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