Lucasfilm's Industrial Light and Magic is moving to 'consolidate their global footprint,' around 300 Singaporeans will be laid off.
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The shuttering of the Singaporean studio will affect about 300 animators and designers. Luke Hetherington, executive in charge of Industrial Light and Magic’s Singapore and Sydney studios told Variety that they would be working to place the laid off workers at other studios, and will host a job fair to help them find work elsewhere in Singapore.
Two Singaporean government agencies, the Economic Development Board and the InfoComm Media Development Authority released a joint statement. It reads as a hopeful assertion that the work that ILM had done to train up animators over 17 years would continue to benefit Singaporeans and would help establish Singapore as a hub for animation. “Lucasfilm’s leaders actively contributed to training generations of students in digital and tech skills at polytechnics and Institutes of Higher Learning.
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