"But if the same artists had worked on the same Coraline with someone else's capital, would the outcome have been any different? Probably not. Did it matter if

"But if the same artists had worked on the same Coraline with someone else's capital, would the outcome have been any different? Probably not. Did it matter if the money was branded Knight or someone else's?" this section of the article says yes, it would have been different: "'Max,' an animator who’d been laid off from Vinton Studios, later became a freelancer and found himself back at Laika to work on Coraline. “It was a wonderful project to be involved in,” he says, “but I’ve had better experiences.” He’d been excited to work with Sellick, one of his heroes, but found that animators were treated poorly by management. 'There was a ‘Just Do It’ attitude. It was a beautiful experience, but rough for a lot of people.'"