This is the first article I have seen regarding runaway production in Animation and VFX that makes any sense to me. If you are trying to build an industry in a region and expect incentives from the government, it shouldn't be easy to import temporary workers to do the work. You should have to hire the local talent. Of course, the real talent doesn't live there, so you look for loopholes to import people from the states to do the work. Looks like those days of easy imported talent might be numbered for Canada.
"Without the IT category, Pixar, Digital Domain, Ubisoft and the like will, starting in October, have to apply for temporary work visas the way every other company in any industry does. This means first seeking a so-called Labour Market Opinion (LMO) from Ottawa's Service Canada department. It requires demonstrating that a position meets wage guidelines, brings new skills and knowledge, and does not adversely affect the employment of a Canadian worker."
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Animators in Vancouver are pretty angry.
There *is* a substantial pool of talented visual effects and animation people that have largely been ignored by the new offshoot studios. The trouble is, they have been staffing up with out-of-country talent that are willing to work for dirt pay undercutting the wage base that has been established locally and shutting local talent out of jobs.
Sadly, the wage situation and working conditions in London are so bad that it makes Vancouver seem like heaven.
Agreed. I don't think U.S. talent should be supporting runaway production by accepting those rates. I don't think ANY artists should be accepting those rates no matter where they live. It only supports a biz model that is set-up to eventually fail.
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