Reading up on Pixomondo
After watching Pixomondo's VFX breakdown of Hugo in my last post , I went to look up the company. I knew they were big, I knew they had operations in many countries, but nothing prepared me for what I found when I went to their website. Pixomondo is a company that started in 2001, doing 3D animation, video installations and commercials. Now the company has facilities spanning across a jaw-dropping 12 counties! These are: Los Angeles, Berlin, Beijing, Frankfurt, London, Stuttgart, Shanghai, Munich, Toronto, Burbank, Hambug and Imprint. It is beyond impressive. Being part of a multinational VFX company myself, I observe the common problems that plague companies with multiple facilities in different countries. One of the huge obstacles is the different time-zones, where production staff work different timing from each other. This translates to time loss. Sometimes at the end of the day in one country's office, things must wait several hours until their counterparts c...