The new Vancouver outpost gets a public viewing.
... On Thursday [Pixar] threw back the curtain on the 30,000 square foot facility it is creating inside the brick shell of an old office building in Gastown.
It also gave a preview of the 75-person studio’s first piece of entertainment, a five-minute cartoon entry in Pixar’s Tall Tales series featuring folksy tow truck Mater from its 2006 movie Cars. ...
The computer server room ... is big enough that Pixar needed BC Hydro to install a dedicated transformer to service the power load. ...
The studio is configured to make shorts, but that can always be altered, yes? Jobs is gone and the place is there to serve Diz Co., after all. So the idea that it will remain in some kind of pristine state and not serve the conglomerate that owns it is very likely wishful thinking.
When management traipses in to proclaim: "Nothing's going to change! We love this facility and all you fine, wonderful people just the way you are! ..." things are destined to change.
Money talks.
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You betchya. Between Vancouver and Madras, India, Disney/Pixar is prepping to crank things out. Just like everyone else.
Oh, how I wish Pixar had never been bought by Disney, and continued as an independent company...
Let the reign of the Pixar Cartoon Factory begin!
God, but I hate Tow Mater.
Yeah, luckily there are also a few other alternatives then what you outline here. Pixar Canada succeeding and producing great art and animation, and increasing the amount of quality animated story product on the marketplace would be one of those.
We know what the "fine entertainment conglomerates" can do to companies, and sure it's a problem, but there are also success stories out there. How about hoping these guys succeed before writing their epitaph huh?
Here's hoping that Pixar Canada doesn't end up like Disney Animation Florida.
When the Canadian financial incentives go away, that's exactly what will happen. Disney's closed two Canadian studios in recent memory, and they did it the moment it looked like they weren't a great investment. Don't expect any different just because the name 'Pixar' is on the latest Canadian studio.
Closed IMD after spending 50-70 million on the build out. Started a stop motion facility in the area instead because they saw no future in performance capture, but a nice future in stop motion.
They need to unfreeze Walt's head and at least put him in a Captain Pike situation with a little red light...or a bell...
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