Customise Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorised as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customised advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyse the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

ADVERTISEMENT

Scotland’s Axis Studios Lays Off 162 Employees, Is Put into Administration

Glasgow-based Axis Studios (Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, LEGO: City Adventures) has laid off 160 employees and has been put into administration. All the studio’s productions have been halted. According to the BBC, the company has been experiencing “severe cash flow problems,” due to a decrease in the number of client projects and rising labor costs.

Administrators Interpath Advisory confirmed that 162 employees have lost their jobs and four people have been retained to help shut down the studio, which was founded in 2000. Axis was known for the animation and vfx services it provided for projects in TV, film, video games and theme park sectors, including work on brands such as Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Luther and Magic the Gathering. Axis won a Royal Television Society Scotland award for its work on League of Legends, and an Emmy for Amazon Studios’s Lost in Oz.The company also created photo-real environments and effects  for the 2022 feature film A Man Called Otto, starring Tom Hanks. Axis recently worked on a major campaign for the mobile game, Clash of Clans.

“It was a great shame to see a creative business in Scotland close its doors,” said Alistair McAlinden, the head of Interpath Advisory in Scotland and joint administrator. “Axis has more recently been impacted by a decline in customer projects, as well as increases in labor costs which have resulted in severe cash flow problems.”

The studio was founded in 2000 by Richard Scott, in partnership with Dana Dorian, Stuart Aitken and Graham McKenna.

Sources: BBC, STV News

ADVERTISEMENT

NEWSLETTER

ADVERTISEMENT

MOST RECENT

CONTEST

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT