The visual-effects community is planning a demonstration during Sunday’s Academy Awards to force the film industry to focus on the economic problems threatening Hollywood’s visual-effects houses.

Many in that VFX world argue that effects houses are struggling because of a business model that doesn’t work, and they point to Rhythm & Hues Studios — the VFX house behind the CG tiger in Oscar-nominated Life of Pi — and the fact that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Feb. 13 as the latest evidence.

A small plane with a banner that reads “Box Office + Bankrupt = Visual Effects vfxunion.com” will fly over the red carpet on Sunday, according to the demonstration’s organizers.

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