Major Pixar Layoffs, Long-Expected, Now Underway In Restructuring (Exclusive)
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Roughly 14 percent of the workforce is cut as part of Disney's company-wide cost-cutting measures. The move is the biggest reduction in Pixar's history.

The move, less than reported 20%, was delayed because of production schedules & studio not focusing on direct-to-streaming series but on its films.

  • Synthuir@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    creative teams across the company were stretched too thin

    [layoffs] delayed because of production schedules

    These people are overworked! Better fire some of them; that’ll surely help!

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    4 months ago

    They really need to focus on doing better work. The best days of Pixar are long behind them at this point.

    Up was 2009 and that looks to be the high point. It’s been down-hill from there.

    Coco was beautiful but utterly predictable in 2017.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    71·
    4 months ago

    yawn the economics don’t matter, this about beginning the process of completing commodifying CGI work so conceptually anybody doing the labor of animation can constantly have the threat of AI replacing held over them.

    In this sense, as I have said many times before, it doesn’t matter if AI works well in this capacity or not, it only matters that AI facilitates a permanent reduction in the leverage animators and computer graphics artists have to fight for a decent quality of life and living wage.