A few people are spreading misinformation that the Sonic movie was responsible for MPCVancouver shutting down...
THIS IS NOT TRUE!
They shut down because of market pressures in the Vancouver area and lacking tax breaks, redesigning Sonic had NOTHING to do with it.
PLEASE RT!
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I can understand being concerned for an animation team's well-being, but don't come on here and instill the notion that other people involved with the movie were responsible for them being shut down, when there's literally evidence to prove otherwise.
Do some research. Not hard.
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This thread here honestly explains the situation better than I ever could, please read if you'd like understand this all in better detail:
@TedBearsEvil
@BroskiBae
@NolanTrashZone
I think it's more a side effect of the issue of crunch; a lot of studios have gotten in the habit of overworking their employees, same with games, in order to meet a crunch deadline, and people are fed up with it.
Idea here is not voting with your wallet but protesting with it.
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I should probably also point out that MPC Vancouver were a third-party company who worked on multiple other projects besides Sonic, so it's not like Paramount even had the power to shut them down in the first place, that was decided by MPC's parent company, Technicolor.
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So, if you believe that they were excessively crunched during the redesign phase, you can blame Technicolor for that, they're the big wigs who worked with the company to meet deadlines and supervise their work environment.
The director and Paramount themselves had no say here.
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Additionally, I have been informed that the studio were apparently going through financial troubles long before Sonic, so again, pitting the blame on this one movie when they were inevitably going to shut down anyways just comes off as incredibly ill informed.
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What happened to MPC Vancouver is more of an issue related to how poorly a lot of VFX companies are treated by their parent companies, as opposed to the actual filmmakers having anything to do with it.
Jeff Fowler and his crew are not bad people, they were passionate to the brim
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I think this is important to add as well, seems like a valuable point:
Not surprised. Real estate in Vancouver is a disaster and I bet the combination of higher payroll (so employees want to work there despite rent) and higher overhead for office space combine to make it impossible to compete for VFX work.
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Judging from some of the quote RTs I’m getting, I think it’s fair to assume that quite a few people don’t really believe a lot of the stuff mentioned in this thread, and that’s perfectly fine, more power to you.
Just sharing what I’ve personally gathered from the info I found.
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And if I’m coming off as a blind fanboy defending a corporate company + product, then I suppose I apologise.
The main goal here was to basically show that the director and other filmmakers involved in the production were not evidently responsible for MPC Vancouver closing.
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But hey, feel free to believe what you like, I’m not going to demand that anyone change their state of mind.
Anyways though, thank you to everyone who has been spreading this around, for positive or even negative exposure, I still really appreciate it.
Stay cool, y’all~ 💙
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@RyanSilberman
Yeah, that is true.
Kinda elaborated on that in the replies a bit:
So, if you believe that they were excessively crunched during the redesign phase, you can blame Technicolor for that, they're the big wigs who worked with the company to meet deadlines and supervise their work environment.
The director and Paramount themselves had no say here.
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@BroskiBae
I mean it's still destroying many people's jobs to save some money for the higher ups, they were a big studio they were getting big work they could pay it.
Of course it's not because of paramount but does that really excuse the penny pinching of the parent company?
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@WarsSonic
I am not defending the parent company's actions in any way, it's still terrible that they shut an animation studio down after they worked to save a troubled production right before Christmas...
But I am defending the director and other filmmakers who receive much of the blame.
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@BroskiBae
Did the studio assign additional budget for the redesign? Because if so, the studio should actually be praised for keeping them in business longer than they would have been otherwise, no?
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