New Discovery rumor: cbs in-house fx team dissolved

[RAMA]

This is currently a rumor coming from within the industry and yet to be corroborated.

 

[RAMA]

Treknews and trekmovie.com have now picked up the rumor story. Interesting to see where this goes.

 

[Gepard]

Link? Or anything? Where did this rumor originate?

If true, I'm sure CBS is farming out the FX work to outside houses. They may have been doing so already; did we know if they were even using CBS-D for Discovery?

 

[Noname Given]

I just checked both sites and don't see anything in the news sections regarding this rumor - where are they talking about it?

 

[Kemaiku]

The in-house team might only have been involved in all the pre-production rendering and prelay. If their sending the work to another company now the series is filming, it could mean they're about to start the full CGI post production.

 

[RAMA]

 

[BillJ]

Final stake in the heart of Deep Space Nine remastered?!?

 

[milo bloom]

Final stake in the heart of Deep Space Nine remastered?!?

Or, they want an excuse to farm it out to the lowest bidder. Not good either way.

 

[Gepard]

Or, they want an excuse to farm it out to the lowest bidder. Not good either way.

Funny thing is, the point of an in-house VFX crew is to reduce overhead and therefore costs. You're not paying for the expenses and profit margins of a whole seperate company, just salaries and expenses for employees of yours. It's why nuBSG went to an in-house crew during season 2.

That said, there may be other factors at work here. I can speak from experience that when the DS9 Blu-ray was still a possibility, CBS reached out to the company I work for to redo the CGI in seasons five through seven, despite the CBS-D crew still being around at that time. It's possible that CBS feels that their in-house team doesn't or didn't have the experience or capacity to handle some aspect of Discovery's FX.

 

[Campe]

Let's not pick up an unsubstantiated sky is falling mentality. Let's wait until there's some corroboration.

 

[Mudd]

Well, making this kind of change early in production isn't going to create a crisis.

 

[CaptainDonovin]

Let's not pick up an unsubstantiated sky is falling mentality. Let's wait until there's some corroboration.

When has that logic ever worked around here?

 

[Jedman67]

That's it. I'm officially done with Discovery. If they're just gonna farm off the fx to some 12 year olds in Thailand then obviously the show sucks. Thank you for ruining my childhood! I hope you're happy CBS. Don't you dare try to make a competent TV show on my watch!!

 

[mos6507]

This is just another sign of gross mismanagement within the upper-echelon. Not a good sign at all.

 

[Jedman67]

Ooh, and before I forget: It also betrays Gene's legacy. Think I covered everything?

 

[LtChange]

Possible reason for the delay and the unusual long production schedule? Or this will add up to even more delays?

 

[cultcross]

If the laid off team have been behind the CGI we've seen so far, I'm not convinced they're that big a loss.

 

[donners22]

Ooh, and before I forget: It also betrays Gene's legacy. Think I covered everything?

Something about a PC agenda would complete it, I think.

 

[Jedman67]

Something about a PC agenda would complete it, I think.

Eh, I'm drawing a blank. My objections work fine as is I guess. Not that I give a dingo's kidneys regardless.

 

[marsh8472]

CBS the same place that ripped up the community boards because they weren't worth maintaining.