But as a company they survived because they own their own IP. Others without IP in the same boat disappeared completely.
Matt From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Bradley Gabe Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 2:04 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Industry Solidarity. Except Disney has opened and shut down CG studios numerous times and displaced hundreds of people, and Dreamworks recently had their own huge round of layoffs. IP situation is different and may be better than service only, but it isn't the answer. On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Matt Lind <ml...@carbinestudios.com<mailto:ml...@carbinestudios.com>> wrote: One thing that I've learned over the years is that you want to work for a company that sees themselves as the artist, not the artisan. Lucas, Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, Blizzard, NCSoft, EA, all own their I.P. and market to the consumer. If the consumer likes their product, they stay around to live another day and another project. Kind of like a home owner who has equity in property. R+H, Digital Doman, ILM, Orphanage, and countless game developers are 3rd parties serving the likes of the above as artisans for hire. When times are lean, they have nothing to fall back on and are vulnerable to bidding wars. They are essentially renters of property, they have no equity. I would love to see better working conditions, more opportunity for employment, job stability, and so on, but majority of the industry isn't modeled for that. To sit here and propose taxes and issue other small scale edicts is only treating the symptoms. Treating symptoms will not get you anywhere.
