Disney fires 75 Pixar employees, including the person who saved Toy Story 2 from disappearing

Disney reached its goal of 7,000 layoffs a few days ago after sending the notice to its employees during the third round of notifications that concluded before the US Memorial Day holiday. Some Pixar executives were also among those affected for a total of 75 layoffs within this animation studio. Among them, some that are directly related to Lightyear – 83%as the manager Angus McLaneand with the Toy Story franchise, as the producer Galyn Susman.

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While the company maintains its ongoing strategy to reduce employment expenses, it has also been removing its own movies and series from the streaming platform that hosted this content, with the intention of achieving its goal: thanks to the fact that it is getting rid of 50 productions, the studio has managed to obtain US$1.5 billion for which it will use to reduce its debt with the United States Department of the Treasury. But according to what you have reported Colliderthis is the first content purge and another will be carried out in a few months, as has already been calculated.

Among the recent layoffs, the one of Galyn Susmanproducer of Toy Story 4 – 96%who in addition to having worked for many years within Pixar became a hero by saving Toy Story 2 – 100% to disappear. Discussing Film she recalled with the news that she saved the film by having a copy of most of the files after someone accidentally deleted 90 percent of the work. At that time, she worked as a technical supervisor and was at her work from home after the birth of her baby; she for some reason kept all the movie files on her personal computer.

inside the book Creativity, Inc.a declaration of ed catmull, co-founder of Pixar, wrote about what happened. According to him, an anonymous person at Pixar was on the internal servers doing a standard file cleanup, when they mistakenly placed a delete command in the movie’s root folder. All the character models and other files started to get erased. They first noticed when they saw how in Woody’s folder, where there were forty files, suddenly there were four.

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The same happened with the rest, and although the animators thought it could be a server error that would eventually be resolved, in reality the damage was done and 90 percent of the movie was lost. Fortunately, Susman, who had developed a way to copy the database to his home computer, contained the missing files. Only 10 percent of it couldn’t be recovered, but that’s nothing compared to what happened, and in the end the movie could be completed without so much loss.

Reuters is the outlet that detailed these eliminated positions among the layoffs Pixar Animation Studios faced recently. Although the massive number of layoffs planned by Disney was announced a few months ago, these days it is striking that these latest developments are being recognized as a direct cause of the failure of lightyearwhich might also be possible.

Galyn Susman was the producer of the spin-off focused on Buzz Lightyear, this time with the voice of Chris Evansand his firing comes after many years of working for the studio where the original film began. Toy Story- 100% in 1995. The layoffs from Pixar that took place on May 23 were reportedly the biggest eliminations that division has had in more than a decade. That says a lot about how determined the company is to keep cutting jobs.

Variety indicates that the company still has plans to drop more roles, specifically internationally, for an undisclosed period of time. All this has happened after the return of Bob Iger as CEO after the removal of Bob Chapekwho had a “controversial” stay in that role.

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