I was 7 years at Rhythm & Hues, leaving the industry during the production of Life of PI. It gets this bad for several reasons, including: each VFX studio has b

I was 7 years at Rhythm & Hues, leaving the industry during the production of Life of PI. It gets this bad for several reasons, including: each VFX studio has between 3-5 feature films moving through it, at different stages of production, at a time, and often a few commercials as well; that equals between 1200 and 2800 digital artists and their support staff all working on the same corporate campus; by necessity, these technical artists have a range of experience, so there is also an education department, a constant flow of new software, and software freezes for a given production that may last 18+ months; so by necessity the staff is managed en mass with cafeteria food, around the clock render completions and hence 3-5 "dailies" per 24 hour period. One production's compute going over expectations, or production changes, or staff changes easily ripple in impact through the entire studio - all productions.