Is Disney Animation Leaving the US?

Well they certainly seem to be trying to get out from under the Woke stuff in greater LA. Disney Opens New Animation Studio in Vancouver BC – Film Threat Prophecy Fulfilled

Alan Ng, editor and chief of FilmThreat, has described himself as the biggest fan of classic Disney animation. He stated that Disney's latest offering in the animated feature film genre, Wish, was the worst piece of Disney animation he has ever seen. He attributed that to the activists who have taken over Disney pushing out "the old, white guys" who actually had experience, and knew how to animate something. And he made a prediction.

As a result of the series of The D-Files, Editor-in-Chief Alan Ng made an ominous prediction that the entire animation industry is headed in two directions: “overseas and AI.” The overseas component of that prophecy has just been fulfilled as Walt Disney Animation has opened a new studio in Vancouver, BC (granted, not quite overseas), and their first significant feature animated film is Moana 2. The Vancouver studio has operated for over a year and a half.

This was not an official announcement from Disney. It was posted by of Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS) Artistic Director Malcon Pierce’s personal Instagram account. It was apparently a secret from the staff at Disney Animation in Burbank, so Disney had an emergency staff meeting, at which they assured everyone there would be no layoffs. Of course there won't.

Have you ever been laid off? They always claim there won't be layoffs, right up until the day there are.

My sources inside Disney describe Malcon Pierce as a talented guy with a good personality who somehow managed to create an equally talented team. He served as an animator on Wreck-It-Ralph, Frozen, and Big Hero 6 and a supervising animator on the original Moana. Also, being in Canada, the team is shielded from the woke SJW nonsense that has infected the animation studios in Burbank. Not verified, but the Vancouver studio appears to be non-union, which poses significant financial and operational advantages.

This all came about because of a series of articles Alan Ng is doing for FilmThreat called the D-Files. The D-Files Part 1: Disney and the Downfall of John Lasseter, and The D-Files Part 2: The Great Mouse Reset are both interesting reads. Because they published the first installment, they also have had people reach out to them anonymously, to give details for what is going in Disney, and in Hollywood in general. That resulted in A Veteran Screenwriter’s Plot Twist on Hollywood’s DEI Cultural Shift: An Open Letter from a White Writer to the Film & TV Business that details in institutionalized racism, against white men in particular, being set up by the Writers Guild of America. That last also details exactly why modern Hollywood is no longer capable of writing anything that entertains, but only able to write propaganda for The Message™.

Part 3 of the D-Files is due out this coming Wednesday.