Why a Texas-based animation studio chose Montreal's Pointe-Saint-Charles as its Canadian hub

Animation studio Reel FX has chosen Montreal as its Canadian hub, a decision that comes with 400 new jobs and over $10 million in investments in the city.Best-known for animated features such as The Book of Life and Free Birds, Reel FX is expanding its studios into Pointe-Saint-Charles.The company already has footholds in both Dallas and Hollywood, and chose Montreal over Toronto or Vancouver for its third base.Last week, Quebec's Ministry of Employment and Social Solidarity announced $440,000 in subsidies to help the U.S. company set up shop. A recruitment blitz is already underway, with over 60 people hired so far. The rest of the hires will be taking place over the next two and a half years.Reel FX president and CEO, Steve O'Brien, spoke to CBC Montreal's Daybreak about the details of the expansion, why they picked Montreal and the struggles to recruit hundreds of people in such a short amount of time.Over the past decades, a great deal of the motion picture production industry has moved out of Los Angeles and largely across the border to Canada. It's because Canada has very aggressively sought out that business and has built really large ecosystems for production.For us, Montreal offered a great package all together — that includes some of the government incentives that are provided on labour … and the talent pool in Montreal being so large and growing. It's a great city — the cost of living is competitive and better than some of the other Canadian cities we considered.Everything about Montreal really spoke to us, so it didn't take long for us to decide that's where we wanted to be.

On quality of life for employees

We want our employees to have quality of life. That means affordable things, like housing, and everything else that comes with living in a city. Those savings are passed on to the company, in terms of the wages you have to pay, so everything being more affordable is a big advantage to us.It makes us more competitive when we're building projects against competitors in those other cities.

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