It's a deliberately unsourced rumor from an anonymous source relayed by a youtuber who claimed to know the source. Regardless the movie was a waste of money and by all accounts Tom Hooper had no idea what he was doing. Mocap artists need little dots to create digital effects based on human movement? Fuck that. My actors must be UNENCUMBERED! As they do dances that only one of them is trained to perform Twitter isn't like a unified voice but it's funny that the last minute Sonic the Hedgehog redesign engendered a level of sympathy for the animators that was forgotten because people liked the movie for some reason. This turd never got that love ever and a lot of people lost their jobs after it was done. Can I prove the studio cut the budget after a disaster of a trailer? No, but it's plausible. Dude in the article even says they had more time for the trailer than the feature