As a result of last
week's announcements from two major players in the visual effects
business, (1) animators have been attempting to cross the borders
into Canada and flying into the UK at Heathrow Airport, only to be
turned back or put into immigration holding areas due to a lack of
passport or work visa. Apparently the would-be immigrants, nearly
all of them 3D animators and graduates from art school, were
completely unaware that Canada and the United Kingdom were separate
countries and required the appropriate paperwork for entry.
“I am completely
gobflapped,” said one animator, “art school taught me how to
stab colleagues in the back, to take credit for their work, to
slander competitors whenever possible, and to point & click at
moronic 2D and 3D packages but nothing about being a migrant
animation worker. Now what am I going to do? “
When explained that
Canada had its own government, constitution, military, courts,
education and health systems separate from the US of A, several of
the animators became violent and demanded their mothers. They were
quickly brought to heel by being told to take their afternoon nap.
Quite a few were
upset to hear that Canada and the UK had “socialized medicine”.
Arrangements are
being made to ship the illegal immigrants home to their parents.
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1. Sony Imageworks
announced that they would move the headquarters for their visual
effects operation from Culver City to Vancouver, Canada and
Industrial Light & Magic announced they were opening permanent
offices in Vancouver and London, England. In both cases, the
announced reason was to take advantage of government subsidies for
filmmakers of the two countries.
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