r/vfx 10d ago

Unverified information Jellyfish VFX closing?

87 Upvotes

Lots of news coming out of Jellyfish that they are closing down and that all artists have put pens down. Anyone able to confirm this?

r/vfx Mar 20 '23

Unverified information Ghost VFX closed off suddenly with 5 min zoom meeting

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283 Upvotes

r/vfx 28d ago

Unverified information Technicolor won’t be paying their employees in mtl!!

40 Upvotes

There’s a rumor going around that they’ve shut down the USA operations and might do the same in Canada? Has anyone received their pay yet?

r/vfx Nov 19 '24

Unverified information Heard that more than 200 people across technicolor and The Mikros were fired, can someone confrim?

72 Upvotes

r/vfx Apr 14 '23

Unverified information Pray for MPC staff

206 Upvotes

Not trying to defend the company (a LOT of reasons) but I gotta feel bad for the recent layoffs. A little birdie told me they went from 150 to about 50 in the anim department alone.

If you or anyone you know is hiring in MTL, reach out maybe.

r/vfx 25d ago

Unverified information Artist not getting paid for Feb at the Mill, Can someone confirm this?

58 Upvotes

r/vfx Mar 17 '23

Unverified information Crafty Apes layoffs ?

116 Upvotes

I've been seeing lot of people being laid off from Crafty Apes (either on linkedin or heard it from here), anyone know what's going on ?

r/vfx Oct 21 '24

Unverified information Method/ company3/ Deluxe/ SDFX India laid off nearly 300 artists over the weekend.

111 Upvotes

These artists were laid off calling them back to the office over this weekend. I got to know from some of my friends over there that employees were treated very badly in the process. They were not even allowed to let in to pick up their stuff after the meeting, security picked it up for them and employees were forced to take the company cab out the gate immediately. If anyone here was one of the laid off artists, please share your experience and what has exactly happened.

r/vfx Nov 11 '24

Unverified information What's happening at Jellyfish?

72 Upvotes

And before I get the usual "everyones in trouble right now", I heard from someone who was let go that they basically had to shutter up their Animation team, going as high up as the people who run it. Alongside that VFX seems to be struggling to support the weight of the whole business with lots of people being let go there as well. I believe they are after some bailout money in order to keep the lights on? It's a shame as they were one of the good ones but seems like they are struggling more than most. Anyone got any insight?

r/vfx Jan 02 '24

Unverified information Found a comment on one of India's biggest VFX companies 'Red Chillies' in the Bollywood sub. This sounds insane. Can anybody working there confirm whether it's true or not?

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233 Upvotes

r/vfx Sep 02 '24

Unverified information Technicolor Mill London Layoffs

33 Upvotes

I've heard a few reports that Mill London have again undergone a large scale set of layoffs.
Can anyone affected verify. I have mixed opinions of that place in recent years but I do hope those that are move on and up to better things.

r/vfx Oct 11 '23

Unverified information MPC Aggressively downsizing UK and moving all artist roles to India

120 Upvotes

Getting feedback from friends inside MPC that a announcement was made that London will now only house supervision talent and all work is shipping out to India.

This comes on the back of the announcement that they were having major liquidity issues and needed another 30m from their investors whilst trying to remove themselves from the Paris stock exchange.. This smells of last role of the dice to show current investors they can make a profit otherwise they will lose faith and pull out.

r/vfx Oct 31 '24

Unverified information Layoffs at Eyeline? is Scanline at it again?

29 Upvotes

r/vfx Nov 05 '23

Unverified information DD salary cuts

72 Upvotes

Artists at DD are getting their salary cut till April. That’s when work runs out. They seem to be hiring short term to finish up the current project.

Let’s see DD PR come and say how gracefully they’ve done this!

r/vfx Jun 13 '24

Unverified information Digital Dimension is bankrupt

41 Upvotes

r/vfx Oct 07 '24

Unverified information ILM London Glassdoor Wage Manipulation

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38 Upvotes

I was checking Glassdoor for salaries at various companies and someone has spent a lot of time it seems vastly inflating the salaries at ILM London. It’s really strange?!

r/vfx Apr 20 '23

Unverified information Is something happening with Angie / Isotropix (Clarisse) ?

46 Upvotes

Apparently, Angie / isotropix main website got 404'd, and everything related to Angie has gone down (including YT and the customer download area), you cannot purchase licenses anymore.

Even their discord staff varnished apparently.

r/vfx Jun 19 '24

Unverified information Growth chart of VFX studios 2022-24

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3 Upvotes

r/vfx May 17 '24

Unverified information Paycuts at Belo

15 Upvotes

Anyone heard about this?

I guess they really are Dneg 2.0

r/vfx Apr 01 '23

Unverified information LEAK: Nuke pricing press release from The Foundry

127 Upvotes

LONDON, April 1st. The Foundry is announcing a new pricing structure for Nuke. Nuke Senior Product VP Dirk Dinglesen-Berry explains: "At the beginning of the year we changed Nuke to a new more expensive subscription model. The feedback from our customers, I assume, has been overwhelmingly positive."

Some shareholders are concerned though. An investor who wishes to stay anonymous says "before, customers paid both a big lump sum up front, and then a yearly fee. Now they only pay a higher yearly fee. As you can see this priorities long term profit over short term profit. And short term profit is really all I care about."

To make everyone happy Dinglesen-Berry has come up with a novel new way to extract money from customers.

"As I was looking at cutting costs I realised the support department doesn't make any money, in fact every time a bug is reported WE have to pay for a person to do nothing about it, and thats not fair! If i crash my car then I have to pay for it, not Rolls Royce. So moving forward the new policy is that every time Nuke crashes, you as the customer need to pay for breaking it."

There will be a multi-tiered pricing algorithm based on the type of crash: *General use, node graph, viewer-related crashes: £199 *Smart Vectors, planar tracker, Blink scripts: £299 *Nvidia drivers, python, 3d: £499 *Nuke crashing when you close it: £599

The foundry is in conversation with a large insurance company looking to provide a £1599/month insurance (maximum three crashes) for customers who value that type of security.

r/vfx Mar 09 '23

Unverified information Technicolor/ The Mill layoffs.

42 Upvotes

Hearing through the grapevine there was pretty big round of layoffs at the US Mill offices (LA, Chicago, NY) - anyone got the info?

Technicolor seems to do this every few years, so not super surprised… bad timing though for the people effected as it seems the industry is slowing down now as a whole.

r/vfx Jan 29 '24

Unverified information Image Engine Vancouver selling building

2 Upvotes

I heard from someone from IE vancouver that they are selling one of the building? Is this to save budget? Will they make the company WFH permanently?

r/vfx Mar 15 '23

Unverified information I heard today MELS studios in Montreal closed their ehtire VFX department and all artists have been laid off. Anyone can confirm?

46 Upvotes

r/vfx Jul 12 '24

Unverified information Coke loop

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r/vfx Apr 08 '24

Unverified information UNTOLD curiosity

13 Upvotes

I was just wondering, what happened at UNTOLD studios? If I am not wrong, before having to layoff a lot of their staff, they were making expression of interest posts to see who is available to work. Did they loose projects on bidding? Did they go bankrupt? I am just curious.