{"id":1108,"date":"2025-02-25T13:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2025-02-25T13:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:08:42","slug":"historic-visual-effects-studio-technicolor-collapses-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/historic-visual-effects-studio-technicolor-collapses-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic visual effects studio Technicolor collapses in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technicolor, the visual effects (VFX) group which has worked on films ranging from Disney’s 1940 classic Pinocchio to 2024 blockbuster Mufasa The Lion King, has collapsed into administration in the UK.<\/p>\n

The group owned several leading visual effects studios including MPC, Mikros Animation and The Mill, with operations in the US, UK, Canada and India.<\/p>\n

Technicolor’s directors had been looking to sell the business, but were not able to find a buyer.<\/p>\n

Its administrators said “the majority” of the more than 440 people it employed in the UK have been made redundant. The appointment of administrators relates only to the UK arm of its business.<\/p>\n

‘Render in peace’<\/p>\n

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Visual effects studios play a key role in film production.<\/p>\n

Most modern big-budget movies and television shows will rely heavily on visual effects to transport actors and audiences into outer space, the distant past or the deep sea.<\/p>\n

And the appearance and non-vocal performances of characters and creatures, fantastic and otherwise will often be partly or fully the creation of animators and other specialist staff.<\/p>\n

As well as purely animated films and TV, many live action releases are in large part the work of the employees of VFX studios.<\/p>\n

Many staff work film-to-film on fixed-term contracts, so redundancies may not reflect the total impact of the business’ troubles on jobs.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0animation news publisher Cartoon Brew<\/a>\u00a0an email sent over the weekend by chief executive Caroline Parot said “external headwinds” had exacerbated problems caused by factors including post-covid recovery.<\/p>\n

She also said the US writers’ strike which led to a slow-down in demand for VFX work causing “severe” pressure on cashflow.<\/p>\n

Those same issues will add to the anxiety of staff and may fear re-entering what has been a relatively lean jobs market for VFX professionals.<\/p>\n

“Render in peace” one self-described 13-year veteran of The Mill\u00a0wrote on Reddit<\/a> – a reference to the computationally intense process of producing final, film grade images, a process known as rendering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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