About 20 years ago or so, when I was running my own post-production company, I used to do my film outs with a company up the street called Pixel Magic, which also did restoration work. Disney came to them and challenged them to participate in a shoot-out with Lowry to win a contract for a bunch of restoration work. Pixel Magic, and their by-hand approach vs. Lowry with their relatively new automated approach.

The Lowry approach obliterated gradients and ate all the glints out of people's eyes, while Pixel Magic's hand-crafted results were vastly superior.

Lowry got the contract.

_Mike