Pixar has just added a studio in Vancouver contributing their part to the recent trend of studios adding creative divisions in Canada. Digital Domain already added a studio to Canada earlier this year and now Sony Pictures Imageworks is also planning to formally announce its Vancouver studio next month. Oh Canada….
The Academy Award-winning Hollywood animation studio Pixar, which is set to launch Toy Story 3 in June, opens its new studio in a historic Vancouver building for an invitation-only sneak peek this morning – one of the highlights of what has become an exciting year for the city’s digital-animation and visual-effects industry. At a time when U.S. production is in the doldrums here, no fewer than three American studios are opening up shops in Vancouver: Pixar, Digital Domain and Sony Pictures Imageworks, which plans to formally announce its Vancouver studio next month.
The reasons for the boom appear to be three-fold: Vancouver’s talent base, its proximity to – and shared time zone with – Los Angeles and the digital-animation or visual-effects tax credit offered by the B.C. government.
Daneil Grid said:
well, this is great for Canada, but will they do that also for Europe. this is not fair
1:05 am on Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Meat Puppet said:
After Merging with The soulless entity Disney, Pixar Opens it’s newest sweatshop. This action is done while hiding under the guise of the high Canadian tax refunds for film makers. The real savings come in the form of Canadian slave wage animators. With the exchange rate being vastly in Americas favor, Pixar moves a sizable portion of it’s animation department to a pseudo country where they can keep tabs on them and don’t have a language barrier. Screw you Pixar for moving jobs out side the (real) US boarders!
4:25 pm on Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Charles Ng said:
I thought it would be even much wiser for them if they open a studio here in Hong Kong. We speak English and the wage for animators here is much lower – and we have a rather fixed currency exchange rate with the US dollars …
9:55 pm on Sunday, April 25, 2010
Meat Puppet said:
That’s right pixar keep the economy going down the crapper by taking more jobs out of the U.S.
Looks like you lost your soul the second you merged with Disney.
11:32 pm on Tuesday, May 11, 2010
lewchico said:
@Meatpuppet…dude…this world is not quite as U.S.-centric as you seem to believe….after all,the reason all our economies are shot is because of lax banking rules with your lovely ‘democracy’….thanks,once again…
6:02 pm on Tuesday, June 1, 2010
chien yih said:
sigh… they can’t even consider malaysia either
7:52 pm on Friday, October 15, 2010