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His acceptance speech was cut off by the theme music to Jaws when he was just about to lament the state of the industry in Hollywood, and then Life of Pi director Ang Lee didn't bother to acknowledge the company amongst his thank yous, despite being responsible for producing about 90 per cent of the visual effects for the fi lm. Machado noted that at one stage R&H had an "incredible" benefi ts package, which included employees being encouraged to bring their pets to the offi ce every day, ca- tered lunches and dinners, yearly allowanc- es for plastic surgery and non-fi lm-related educational courses, as well as company- covered car washes while they worked. Although R&H maintains studios in Taiwan, Vancouver, India and Malaysia, its Hollywood studio has been slated for auction in bankruptcy court on March 28 while a skeleton staff of employees contin- ues to work on two fi lms set for release this summer, R.I.P.D. and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. "I lost my job and that in itself is devas- tating, but this is like a family breakup, or a divorce. Some of my best friends worked there," she said tearfully. "(Rhythm & Hues owner) John Hughes's goal was to make money, but he did more than any boss I know of to keep us happy, from day one. I'll probably fi nd another job but it will never be the same. I do have a lot of contracts in the industry. I'm a posi- tive person and things happen for a rea- son. When one door closes, another one opens." Because Rhythm & Hues was not owned by one of the major movie-makers in Hol- lywood and isn't unionized, the company was hired on a freelance basis. A contract is agreed upon before a movie goes to pro- duction, but often alterations are made during the fi lmmaking process that force the visual effects fi rms to devote a huge amount of resources and labour that was also being undercut by less expensive for- eign labour. "There were several reasons for the bankruptcy, some of them were Rhythm & Hues's fault, but most of them are because of the movie studios and the demands they make of us," added Machado, who spent nine months working on the computer- generated model for O.J., the Orangutan character in Life of Pi. "The studios think it's okay to keep making changes while shooting is going on, like rewriting the ending or changing characters altogether, and that happens on a regular basis. At that point, we might be halfway done our work for the movie and we have to do everything over, with no con- sideration for the extra work that we've had to do." Machado was a look/development direc- tor for colour and lighting with R&H at the time of her departure, but didn't set out to be in the visual ef- fects fi eld upon graduating from Georgetown Dis- trict High School. She majored in math and sciences at the University of Waterloo with a passion for art. In her second year at Waterloo, while watching a CBC documentary in the mid- 1980s on the then-cutting-edge computer graphics required for the making of the movie Tron, Machado found her calling. "It was literally like a light bulb going off in my head: Computers and art. That's what I'd always wanted to do in the back of my mind when I started school," she said. "I got into the Computer Animation course at Sheridan College and it was ex- actly what I'd been looking for. It was re- ally cool to learn and work with people who have now become some of the pioneers in the visual effects industry." Prior to joining R&H, Machado, who is single with no children, worked in Toronto for eight years before moving to Holly- wood. Her fi rst big project with Rhythm & Hues was the polar bear TV commercials for Coca-Cola and her name can be found in the credits of noteworthy fi lms such as Babe: Pig In the City, Cats & Dogs, X-Men 2, Garfi eld, Alvin and the Chipmunks and most recently 2012's Snow White and the Huntsmen. R&H is considered to be at the fore- front of creating computer-generated ani- mals for the silver screen, so it's not sur- prising that Machado is an avid dog-lover, for many years breeding and exhibiting smooth fox terriers at her Bellewoods' kennel. Some of the dogs she has bred have gone on to show at the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club event in New York. "My dogs assisted me in The Golden Compass, where you start with a static image that's not moving, and I animate it (on a high-end Intel processor) with fur and skin, looking at the pattern of the dog fur as a guide," she said. "The dogs actually keep me sane. You really need another hobby or other inter- ests in this line of work or you'll burn out. You're working with incredibly talented people and a lot of them are musicians and artists away from the studio, so it's been really inspiring to work with them." Machado's mother, Jo Morrow, resides in Georgetown and will turn 80 in May. Father Gerry passed away in 2011 and sis- ter Brenda lives in Burlington. Local Oscar winner blames studios for loss of job Continued from pg. 1