Variety’s David Cohen has the news of another unfortunate band of VFX artists in Montreal, this time working for Fake Studios, who find themselves unpaid and out of work and struggling to find out who to blame.
A handful of artists who worked for Fake on the 3D vfx for Dimension’s “Piranha 3D” have yet to receive payments due in April. Their plight has inspired a great deal of anger in vfx circles, where hearing “unpaid artists” and “Montreal” opens the old wound of Meteor Studios and the problems artists had getting paid for New Line’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth.”
The studio says it paid, the VFX house says it doesn’t have the money to pay everyone “in one shot”. Would a union fix this? I honestly don’t know.
via Fake Studio fails to pay workers – Entertainment News, David Cohen, Media – Variety.
