Disney Animation opening studio in Vancouver

[Slpy3270]

Walt Disney Animation Amps Up Production With New Vancouver Studio; First Project Is ‘Moana’ Musical Series

Walt Disney Animation Studios is opening a facility in Vancouver, BC that will focus on long-form series and special projects for Disney+.

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More cheap labor here we come!

 

[Disney Analyst]

How exciting for my city! So many talented people here who now have some amazing jobs opening up!

 

[BrianLo]

Pixar closed its Vancouver studio some years back. Which seems a bit short-sighted in a Disney+ World. Yes, that studio was never going to make features, but it's too bad. Nice to see Disney Animation at least show up.

We visited it in 2013 and there were some glimpses of projects that were quite unique and never to see the light of day unfortunately.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Rumor confirmed!!

Marvel Developing Its Own Animation Branch For Projects Beyond 'What If?'

With the release of Black Widow and the finale of Loki happening almost simultaneously, Marvel fans now have to wait quite a while for the next piece of canonical content. That is, of course, the multiversally-set What If? Now, what makes What If? so notably different from every other previous...

thedisinsider.com

I think they think What If is going to do real well and would like to emulate the success of Into the Spider-Verse.

 

[choco choco]

Walt Disney Animation Amps Up Production With New Vancouver Studio; First Project Is ‘Moana’ Musical Series

Walt Disney Animation Studios is opening a facility in Vancouver, BC that will focus on long-form series and special projects for Disney+.

deadline.com

More cheap labor here we come!

Cheap Labor??? Have...have you ever been to Vancouver? Are you aware of how Canada works?

 

[Robbiem]

Disney could have used blue sky rather than close it down and open another studio. I feel sorry for the staff laid off last year

 

[Slpy3270]

Cheap Labor??? Have...have you ever been to Vancouver? Are you aware of how Canada works?

Outside Titmouse's branch there, there's no animation union in Vancouver and most outsourcing is done to circumvent the Animators Guild and high wages in SoCal. What's worse, some productions there have been known for having put animators through hell due to lack of union protections (Sausage Party).

 

[choco choco]

Outside Titmouse's branch there, there's no animation union in Vancouver and most outsourcing is done to circumvent the Animators Guild and high wages in SoCal. What's worse, some productions there have been known for having put animators through hell due to lack of union protections (Sausage Party).

Hmmm... I am not aware that Vancouver would be cheaper than South Korea or Japan, places notorious for underpaying animators. I do think BC gives generous tax breaks, but I believe the main reason for Vancouver is its high talent pool for animation/game development, and it is not primarily a wages issue (according to the article link, Burbank is expanding anyway). Vancouver has a high standard of living, and wages have to remain competitive to attract the talent there with their multitude of choices (just off the top of my head, Sony Imageworks and Bardel are in Vancouver).