Most VFX companies flirted with financial insolvency; the industry grew accustomed to a certain level of churn. Rhythm & Hues, for example, had been a key contributor of CGI to Marvel’s The Incredible Hulk in 2008, but it was driven into bankruptcy by a pair of 2012 films: Snow White and the Huntsman and a movie for which it won an Academy Award, Ang Lee’s Life of Pi.
