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Creative Bloq
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Paul Hatton

Technicolor's closure takes down MPC, The Mill and Mikros Animation – but is AI the answer?

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Technicolor has finally succumbed. Citing “severe financial challenges”, the VFX giant is shutting down all operations with immediate closures of The Mill, Mikros Animation (Plankton: The Movie, Orion and the Dark) and MPC Advertising. If you’re anything like me, that news will take a while to settle in. I’ve never known a time without these major players and it’s sad to think they’ll no longer be around.

MPC and The Mill are incredible companies who have provided the world with an unbelievable array of ground-breaking VFX work. It was only last year that we covered the making of MPC's out-of-this-world VFX work on the Netflix hit Spaceman and the making the VFX for Halo Season 2.

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