3 flops = the end?

Its GI Joe the weekend following croods. How do you think Croods will perform?!

so we all know a studio can't afford to flop on a $140Million movie without real repercussions on operations and staffing. What happens if Croods, Turbo, and/or Shadows (1 or 2 or all 3) flop?

Crap is crap (is crap), whether DW renders it faster than Pixar, slower, or at about the same speed (or simply refuses to get into speed comparisons). Makes no diff! Render speed is NOT the issue here.

re: 35x time to render. Well, that's going to happen if the story is not baked out enough before it hits the animation pipeline. If the story is not at a certain level of stability, it will result in a lot of redos and rerenders. Stories need to... — read more 

@Slarty. You speak sense. But to you last point, the technology teams are actually in the middle of their resizing. Technology end dates are waiting on contract time outs and delivery dates, so the tech groups' resizing is just going to hit a bit... — read more 

Someone below said : "It takes DWA 35 times longer to render a movie than Pixar." First of all, how much fur did Cars and Wall-E generate on each patch? These stats are essentially worthless because the production process requires render passes to be... — read more 

DWA has a simple problem. JK has always valued loyalty above operational results, and there are rarely changes in departments or teams after a failure. As the company grew, the execs didn't have the skills to scale operations, and just added two... — read more 

Kate S "rose through the ranks", at one point was Toilet Paper Manager (whatever the F THAT was about). The Anim Tech department is home to arrogant, mean, clueless (as in technology-wise, including graphics) people, and or total SUCKUPS such as Neil... — read more 

@Anonymous who posted http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/media/p/1/000/201/18a/342813f.jpg - creepy @Anne who thinks that due to Croods the layoff situ will get better. YEAH RIGHT. After The Croods bombs big time, the layoffs will also ramp up big time... — read more 

This is how it works: fire the guys that do the work (prod) Keep the people that are not doing a good job (story). Dont make the renderer faster (Arnold), make it 7 times slower than the already slow LIGHT tech (TORCH). Don't fire Doug Cooper, and... — read more 

Maybe JK should make a show called.... "the biggest liar" where he can be a judge along Romney. The contestants would have to go up the chain of command with the least amount of innovation and the most amount of politics. LOLOLOL

Here's the problem with DWA. It takes DWA 35 times longer to render a movie than Pixar. Pixar takes 11.5 hours per frame on cars 2 or 1,987,000 hours. DWA takes 70,000,000!! that's 501 hours per frame using Rise of the Guardians for running time... — read more 

Its funny today JK blogged an "objective" article about DreamWorks ANimation. Objective after you treat that writer as royalty? Sure...It read something like this: "whats particularly nice about this story is that it comes from an objective third... — read more 

Snarky, are you the fine lad cleaning the toilets after the talent poops?

Technically no one was fired, or laid off, we were just "transitioned".

Reading comments with interest. As one of the Latinos working away at DW (and not in the kitchen), I find and am surprised on all the talk on cutting creative talent and yet my dept is not losing anyone (well, we're not hiring 2 people where we had... — read more 

One place to start with fixing some of the disfunction here at DWA is the leadership in our technology organization. Lincoln is great, but some of the others need to get a new career - good that Ed has moved onto Ptch-the-sh*t (as that stuff isn't... — read more 

http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/media/p/1/000/201/18a/342813f.jpg

Not working at DWA....but are people getting layed off every week now at DWA? That would be really bad for morale Coz 350/6 months is almost 2 people/day.. Perhaps with The Croods, they would not need to lay off that many people...

That comment about "exec" sounds totally like Doug Cooper. The way the adjectives are arranged is so much like his way of talking. He is a great con-artist, and in his tradition, he will throws under the bus someone else, like the execs, so that the... — read more 

"Well, I'm an Exec. You are all small, bitter, mean-spirited, foul-mouthed, clueless. The REALITY is much more complex than you will EVER grasp. Get back to your whining, that's all you'll ever do.". I'm leaving before you transform me into that... — read more 

Greed makes things complicated in a field where humble stories have to be told

The ailments of DWA in my opinion do not originate with managerial shortcomings - though there are shortcomings - but rather in the concept and story development process. You sometimes end up with properties that are geared for nobody - too intense... — read more 

I honestly believe this explains the current situation at DWA way better then I can write up. The IPO is not a golden road to riches, it is a difficult transition as I have found out recently... Bringing a corporation to the market exerts a number of... — read more 

Wait...Doug C is an Exec now? lol

I am doing something about it, I'm leaving this ass backward company to pursue a career where I may actually have a chance to do something useful instead of work with caveman tools, and Crood execs. Thanks for the free lunch!

@Exec "You are all small, bitter, mean-spirited, foul-mouthed, clueless." <-- And this is how the Execs at DW see their Artists!? The people who actually make these movies a reality, without whom this company would be nothing!..Wow sir! You just blew... — read more 

Well, I'm an Exec. You are all small, bitter, mean-spirited, foul-mouthed, clueless. The REALITY is much more complex than you will EVER grasp. Get back to your whining, that's all you'll ever do.

BTW - I know for sure that JK is reading this list, so, let's send him a message...

JK - if you have to cut: Start with Marketing.. It used to be cool… even enviable. Now it’s just messy.

As harsh and direct as these last few posts have been. It is true. The loyalty JK has with his dev staff and high ranking executives - even his president who is really a marketing person, could potentially sink them. Even the new blood has been too... — read more 

Well, don't know about other ships but this one is teetering and is entering iceberg territory. Fun while the journey lasted.

Whaaaat an executive doesn't know how to run a ship and when they run it aground they toss crew overboard to lighten the load? These people should be running financial institutions and automobile companies

Bill D is smarter than THAT? The Bill D that brain farted Shrek the Musical and Trucker Trolls? The moron who cost millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs but doesn't get canned? That crapper hasn't got a brain in his head.. He has a deal with the... — read more 

At DW, PRACTICALLY EVERY (but not all) "Producers", "Production Execs" (WTF is THAT??) and Studio Heads are useless. Sadly, JK and Bill D seems to have a knack or tolerance or acceptance for/of such worthless, unqualified, untrained, non-pedigreed... — read more 

for those of you burned by DDU , DWA etc. join the grouwing number of VFX artists around the world together. search for vfx solidarity international on facebook and twitter. Lets make life for ALL visual effects and animation artists here and abroad... — read more 

You are correct Sir. Jill Hopper is amongst the USELESS Sods at Dreamworks that will never be let go....

One name: Jill Hopper Thats all

It seems that the "work culture" at India, has already "transitioned" into its final transformation phase. Here is the same. I already decided to leave the company. If I stay here, I'll die of depression, cancer, or something similar. This thread was... — read more