It's called Show Business. Show Business. Sad but true.Why sad? Because the people who create the show often get run over or left out in the cold by the business. Usually because they forget the business. They do it for the love or the art. It's nobel and it's a comforting mindset. But in the end, we're all basically share-croppers. And when the crops start to be less bountiful, the land owners cut off the workers.
"But who is going to grow your food now?"
"We'll figure out a cheaper way. Meanwhile, what you're earning isn't paying for the land I bought." Says the Land Baron.
"But isn't that because you paid twice what it was worth?" cries the serf.
"That's because I was lead to believe that there was pirate treasure underground." comes the reply. "And it's not there. Now, good-bye."
What does all this mean? It means that earlier this week, the London Company, Entertainment Rights, and its step-child Classic Media decided to lay off two thirds of the most profitable arm of their beleaguered empire, Big Idea, Inc.
No, the Overlords didn't make their decision for spite or save pork-barrel spending. Business is bad (and business decisions were poor). So who who pays the price? Yep. You guessed it.
It's not personal. It's just business.
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Love the expressions! =)
We who were booted out of the Magic Kingdom (class of '04) Salute our brethren at Big Idea .
Yes, it's just business . What a business. There's no business like show business like no business I know .
And Elderly Man River he just keeps rollin' ... rolling , along .
*sigh*
Oh boy ! Just in time for Christmas , too.
I'm so sorry to hear this news! There doesn't seem to be much good news anywhere anymore (except of course for THE "Good News".) Know you are always in my prayers.
Great post man. So sad but so true.
Nature can be cruel too. Ask Darwin.
At least in nature, you know from the outset it's "kill or be eaten". When people get a job with a company they believe in (or at least doing what they love), it's like living in a game sanctuary. Then suddenly, state funding is down, the fences are removed and the predators once again have access to the park. Meanwhile, the Warden sits in front of his fire sipping hot cider and reading National Geographic.
Oops.
P.S. By the way, I have the utmost respect for Game Wardens and the Nat'l Geographic. That wasn't intended as a slam.
This is truly depressing news. I hate to see this happen.
So do you think Big Idea will hang on long enough to rebuild or is the skeleton crew that's left just wrapping up loose ends?
Classic says that they plan to continue to produce more Veggietales. I'm sure they will finish the two they have in production. All the preproduction has been done, so all that is left is to farm out the animation overseas, then have Kurt score them (freelance).
For future projects (if they do indeed continue), they will hire freelance artists (possibly the same people who they just let go - if they don't have another full-time job by then) for the design and storyboards.
It will be very similar to how we produced 20 episodes of Penguins with just 5 full-time people and a host of freelancers.
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