Why didn't nearly enough people get mad at Netflix for doing this?
People who work in the animation industry have no spine when it comes to dealing with executives and shareholders, so they take it out on other workers, people trying to get into the industry, people who just watch the shows and complain online, etc
>>144669514Why would people get mad at this? Most media projects get cancelled somewhere alone the production line. Anyone in the industry knows it’s always a likelihood.>>144669564>money people don’t want to spend money>anon thinks confronting them will make them more likely to spend money There is nothing “having spine” would have done to change this outcome.
>ready to ship the first episode to the animation studioSo the point when the project would start to cost real money.
She quit Superhero Girls for this...
>>144669827Netflix already sunk thousands of dollars in pre-production at Mercury Filmworks with animatics, backgrounds, and designs for the entirety of season 1 being done. They basically got cold feet at the very last stage of the production
>>144669868>thousandsDoesn't a single episode cost millions? In Hollywood when a film bombs they'll often pretend they aren't disapointed and are working on a sequel to save face only to quietly cancel it later. They pay a couple writers to work on scripts they know they won't use.
>>144669514Did we REALLY need another gay witch show though?
>>144669514That was a couple of years ago so it's old news by now, but plenty of people got pissed at Netflix Animation for shitcanning all of their projects at the time. They have a horrible rep in the industry now
>>144669514Too busy getting mad at each other petty shit. They will preach diversity and inclusion until it's time to only hire their douchebag friends, fucking hacks
>>144669877When you get to the animation, voices, music, yes, but the animatics/storyboards and initial writing /art probably would be much less
Is this a function of execs greenlighting something, then leaving the company, and the next exec comes in and is like "what is this dogshit? No, we're not making that." or is it the same exec realizing they don't actually want what was pitched. Just very strange to stop a show that you've already paid people for. Why not rework it instead
>>144670198it was unfortunately a victim of mass cancellation of multiple projects.
>>144669514>Why didn't nearly enough people get mad at Netflix for doing this?Dude, it's animation. It is NOT ESSENTIAL for society to survive, therefore it is the first and most common thing to get shitcanned.If you expect animation jobs to be stable and well-paid then you're a total retard.
>>144669827If they had a 50-person staff and the writers were working on season 2, it's almost certain that the majority of the budget was already spent. If you're ready to ship to the animators, you've already done:>character design>writing>storyboarding>Toonboom asset development>casting>voice acting for the primary languageThe cost of an episode through a higher-end (but not luxury) animation studio would be around 200k. If Netflix was Netflix and had them going with a cheaper option, it could easily be closer to 100k. It's unrealistic to estimate the cost of everything else as less than 500k per, and all of that was now for nothing. That's business.
>>144670198I think this was a case of the existing execs going>OH GOD WE'RE HEMORRHAGING MONEY AND THE SHAREHOLDERS JUST NOTICED WE COOKED THE BOOKS AND WE'RE THREE TIMES OUR YEARLY 'PROFIT' UNDERWATER>OH GOD OH FUCK SHUT IT DOWN SHUT IT ALL DOWN NO MORE CARTOONS LETS JUST LICENSE SOME KOREAN SHIT AND GIVE THE LIVE ACTION SHOWS SOME CRUMBS
>>144669877Episodes of an animated series don't get million dollar budgets without a good chance of return on investment. Afro Samurai was a million per episode because it was a short series sold on its style. The last season of Avatar was a million per episode be ause it had proven to be worth the investment. For a first season you aren't sure about yet you keep costs down while testing the waters.
>>144669514It's coming to light more and more that Faust is an absolute NIGHTMARE to work with. Seriously, ask anyone who worked with her. She's completely psychotic. You really think it's just bad luck all her projects get cancelled, or she always gets replaced?
>>144669564>People who work in the animation industry have no spineWhat does this even mean? This isn't a situation you can Internet Tough Guy your way out of.hor
>>144670675Except everyone who worked on this praised it as one of the best things they've ever worked on and got upset when this was cancelled
>>144669514Let me answer your question with another question. It seems to me animators as a whole tend to have collectivist leanings. So if wealth and success should be distributed evenly, then shouldn't failure and losses also be spread?A rising tide lifts all ships, and a receding tide strands them. Netflix animation was in trouble because there was seemingly no individual accountability and no standards in animation for a long time. It's unfortunate Toil and Trouble got cancelled, but I don't see any need for angry recriminations, especially against the one party that lost the most money which they were never obligated to spend. A sigh and a shake of the head at all the could-have-beens will suffice.
>>144669992Considering the creatives also swallow this kool-aid, I don't feel bad for them.
>>144669514I gave up on Netflix when they cancelled Inside Job. Anything they do is water off the duck's back because I will never give them one thin dime ever again.
>>144669564You'd be surprised how petty a short nepobaby Jew can be. It wouldn't be "It took guts to stand up to me, here's all your budget and a top!" It'd be "You'll never work in this industry again" and they'll call other studio heads to blackball you for standing up to them. Look how Ashley Judd lost out on Lord of the Rings, a movie Harvey Weinstein had nothing to do with, because he had his people call Peter Jackson's people to throw her under the bus.
>>144669887>Lauren was going to make a gay witch show
>>144669811>industry is super expensive and risky>for generations now content is king>cancel shit constantly midway through>somehow still have money afterwardIs it all a scam? There's got to be money laundering going on if the networks are still standing after all these decades.
>>144669514Its beyond the point of rage, this is acceptance. They are degenerates doing degenerate things.
>>144671190>Lord of the Rings, a movie Harvey Weinstein had nothing to do with
>>144669514>Why didn't nearly enough people get mad at Netflix for doing this?For what, being corpo media types don't care?Cause it's par the course. Might as well write about how Wall Street execs are greedy. No shit lol
>>144671758>Is it all a scam?No. Hollywood as a whole, like music, is an industry were the top 2~5% of successful projects are so successful, they subsidize the losses of the rest. Studios employ this strategy of casting a wide net because they have to spend money in advance, and they know they cannot predict which projects will be winners and losers any more than someone can predict individual stocks. Making a bunch of mostly crap is like buying a broad market ETF.
