ILM Launches New Vancouver Visual Effects Facility

MagicSugar

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ilm-launches-new-vancouver-visual-689174

“We will be here at least eight to 10 years,” ILM chief creative officer John Knoll said.

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/technology/Star+Wars+empire+brings+visual+magic+Vancouver/9628848/story.html

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New facility apparently the former Pixar Canada building.

JordanN

Hopefully those 8 years have artists that get treated well with a decent salary and have deadlines that wont damage your health. Right?

...right?

Dataday

Tax incentives hoorah!

Rwolf

JordanN wrote: »

Hopefully those 8 years have artists that get treated well with a decent salary and have deadlines that wont damage your health. Right?

...right?

If they stick around, only a few get F/T work in VFX, rest is contract to contract based

StephenVyas

Reading the glassdoor reviews about working at ILM was a little bit disheartening -especially after the mouse took over.

ambershee

Seems more positive than most companies on Glassdoor?
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/ILM-Reviews-E5563.htm

MagicSugar

Wondering how many Van small studio positions would open up as workers vacate and jump on ILM work. (But FYI, ILM Singapore has twice as much worker capacity.)

@Dataday, yeah tax incentives :shifty: Wish they'd apply to remote artists too so I could get some gigs.

Maybe there's an underground market where Vancouver residents can let their home address act as proxy to non-BCers :poly121: You get the tax refund and I get the work. It's a win-win!