Gone are the studio days

I have just been reading an article in the recent issue of Encore magazine. The demise of Energee Entertainment. When working there I always had a feeling, like a gut instict when you first enter a room, that there was something not quite right about the place. The brothers Travers were the head honchos of their sisters company. Neither of them knew or had experience in animation. One brother exclaimed to the animation department, " I don't care how shitty it is just get it done!" . While the result of being liquidated is not of their own doing directly I feel that they were certainly responsible for some of their coming apart. I think there was an amount of disrespect between all that worked there and it was the respoonsibility of the head honchos to overcome that. Instead people like myself never saw or heard from these people. The company could have been quite successful but I fear that it was driven by the greed of two who had no understanding about the animation industry. A bad move on their part and the result is devastating to our lives. The people I knew working there are now in the ranks of the unemployed unless they can grab the few vacancies Disney have in Haymarket every year. Other than that it may mean interstate or overseas travel to look for work. I wish them luck.