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Aras Pranckevičius

"Oof" is what it sounds like wrt the whole Unity x Wētā thing. fxguide.com/quicktakes/unity-s

So basically, the end result is that 265 people are abruptly laid off right before holidays (I hope Wētā FX can take most of them back?), and Unity essentially pissed away $1.6B. Cool, cool. (not cool at all)

fxguide · Unity Software with a ‘company reset’ walks away from film VFX and the Wētā dealOur best wishes to all the team members of the Unity Wētā Tools' division following its closure. UPDATE: Statement from WētāFX
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Tim Nicholas

@aras I can only assume they still see value in the IP/assets they bought, but not the people who went with it. Dicks.

Aras Pranckevičius

@tim …and the codebase of two dozen in-house tools without any people who understand any of it is useful about as much as… <checks notes> a bupkis?

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Tim Nicholas

@aras Corporations are seldom the smartest concept in the room.

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Hugo Devillers

@tim @aras the myth of Midas but it's actually a corporation that obliterates the value in all their acquisitions and turn them to shit

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Aurimas Černius

@aras @tim as I understand, people making the tools are still at Unity. It's the people that use them to do stuff for Weta FX are rifed, majority are said to move to Weta FX (probably to continue doing the same thing).

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