[LiquidTurbo]

Pixar comes to Canada! Vancouver that is.. any aspiring animators going to try to work there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzbKgujZF7c&feature=player_embedded

[Meowjin]

met alot of the animators they had some type of meeting at my nightclub.

[Meowjin]

looksl ike gastown office

[StylinRed]

edit: nevermind watched the video... that looks like its almost exactly next door to Phil Rankins (lawyer) office

[Gh0stRider]

nice video, i liked how they used animated characters in vancouver.

stanley park, english bay, cambie st bridge etc.

[Gh0stRider]

looksl ike gastown office

from their site.


Where is the studio?
We are currently located in a temporary office in downtown Vancouver while we look for a permanent home for our studio.

How big is the studio?
We are planning to ramp up to a staff of 75-100 people.

[tonyvu]

fucking love this city

[BlacknJean]

omfg i cant wait for toy story 3!!!!

[AzNightmare]

Awesome! too bad i'm not in this 3D industry anymore though.
Maybe if they did this a few years ago.

The video was somewhat touching though... don't know why.
Made me cherish this city a bit more.

[BNR32_Coupe]

i was thinking the olympics brought more attention to vancouver but actually vancouver's more convenient than anywhere else for pixar since they're hollywood and vancouver's in the same time zone

[ForbiddenX]

^isn't vancouver already considered Hollywood north?

I'd love to work at pixar but I'm not much of an artist haha, hopefully they need some tech guys in a year or two :P. I'm studying more of the computer related stuff for this.

[7seven]

Pixar Vancouver won't be working on feature films for awhile, the Vancouver office gets most of the crap like animated shorts that play in amusement parks and above urinals. Vancouver already has a number of animation and vfx post studios, so it'll be interesting to see how many key talent Pixar can draw away, from talking to people I know on that side of things, not too many are excited.

Somewhat related, if you're interested in working on that side of things in film, Sony Imageworks and Digital Domain are hiring for their Vancouver offices. DD Vancouver has been slaving away on Tron and Thor and will be gearing up for Transformers 3 shortly. There are also a number of VFX studios planning Vancouver expansion shortly. Despite the high CDN $, "Hollywood North" is doing alright still, even on the production side of things, I'll be lacking time and sleep soon when Red Riding Hood, Smallville and Hellcats gets running at the same time.

[jmvdesign]

How do you think Pixar will do eventually in 5 years time? I'm kinda weary of these animation studios expanding here in Vancouver especially after what happened to the video game industry such as Electronic Arts doing mass hiring then slashing jobs month after month.

BTW, is EA Black Box still open?

[jpark]

awesome

[freakshow]

BTW, is EA Black Box still open?
I think they closed down closed their dt office a while ago..

[NeoDestinyZ]

I use to be an Artist when I was at a young age, I did music, art, animation and also films. But I need to get re-train and would love to do volunteer/part time job if someone would hire me.

[fliptuner]

I think they closed down closed their dt office a while ago..

Shut down late last year or early this year, after a bunch of layoffs. The remaining employees moved to Bby.

[hotong]

sweet

[AzNightmare]

I always assumed PIXAR's one of the top animating studios in the world.
And wouldn't hire noobs that are basically fresh out of school.
Maybe the one in Vancouver is planning to train so that'll explain why they are going
to stick with short animations for now.

But I'm pretty sure every animator wants to work for PIXAR.

[jtanner_]

I thought the video was really well made... nice to see how they incorporated the characters into the surroundings

[jnesss]

I always assumed PIXAR's one of the top animating studios in the world.
And wouldn't hire noobs that are basically fresh out of school.
Maybe the one in Vancouver is planning to train so that'll explain why they are going
to stick with short animations for now.

But I'm pretty sure every animator wants to work for PIXAR.

if newly graded students can demonstrate talent that can beat experience.. well then :thumbsup:.

[TRD Rs200]

cool

[typ.]

inspiring.

[freakshow]

if newly graded students can demonstrate talent that can beat experience.. well then :thumbsup:.
While this is possible, they generally speaking, look for at least 3 years exp.

[7seven]

I always assumed PIXAR's one of the top animating studios in the world.
And wouldn't hire noobs that are basically fresh out of school.
Maybe the one in Vancouver is planning to train so that'll explain why they are going
to stick with short animations for now.

But I'm pretty sure every animator wants to work for PIXAR.

The problem is that any good or experienced animator won't want to work for Pixar Vancouver, because you'll be doing their crap work, they rather go work on feature films for Pixar Emeryville or other studios. I know a few animators personally that have turned down offers from Pixar Vancouver due to those reasons. Similar to some of the problems we have on film/tv productions filling some of our VFX positions for rig removal, no good VFX guy wants to be stuck working continually on rig removal.

[StylinRed]

Bumperoo

Pixar Vancouver is shutting down

Pixar Canada closing its Vancouver studios | News1130 (http://www.news1130.com/2013/10/08/pixar-canada-closing-its-vancouver-studios/)

Pixar Canada closing its Vancouver studios
Less than 100 people have been laid off


VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Pixar Canada is closing its Vancouver studios.

The company says the closure will affect fewer than 100 people.

“The team at Pixar Canada is incredibly talented and we are so proud of the excellent work we have produced there. However, as we look at the creative and business needs of our studio, we’ve made the decision to refocus our efforts and resources under one roof in Emeryville and will be closing the studio in Vancouver,” the company says in an emailed statement.

Local digital expert with Zeros 2 Heroes Media, Matt Toner, says no one saw this coming. “Pixar as a studio is about as blue a chip as you can have. I think that when you look at it, it’s symbolic of the bigger forces that are always at work in the entertainment industry. The trick is, can our city, can our industry in Vancouver re-absorb these people that are being laid off. You have 100 talented, bright, probably young people that can work any place in the world, can we keep them here?”

Toner says the city needs to develop an industrial strategy that can respond to changes in the entertainment industry. “You don’t want these folks that have earned their spurs in Vancouver going to work somewhere like Montreal.”

Pixar’s Gastown location opened in 2010 and produced a slate of short films including Air Mater, Small Fry and Partysaurus Rex.

[EliteResearcher]

Pixar in Vancouver? Oh very cool~