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Avantages

Great pipeline, supervisors and leads are courteous & professional, opportunity to take on more challenging work, fun projects

Inconvénients

Sub-par artist management, stifling of wages, corporate environment, cheap benefits, mandatory overtime

Conseils à la direction

If you paying peanuts, you get monkeys.

Avantages

Pipeline, benefits,pay are all great.

Inconvénients

Culture is the biggest negative. Unfortunately all big companies with multiple locations suffer from this.

Conseils à la direction

Find better ways to keep the top tallent. Too many people get pigeon holed or disregarded due to cliques and company politics.

Avantages

Good vibe,helpful people,great management,lots of snacks!

Inconvénients

There is some amount of overtime, but then all companies have it!

Avantages

- great pipeline to work with - site license for houdini and katana - love how you can do dailies from your desktop and continue working - really good at doing animated movies

Inconvénients

- inept at feature film vfx - senior management is located in LA

Conseils à la direction

- doing fine, as indicated by the success of Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse - keep making quality animated features - proceed with caution if you want to continue into vfx

Avantages

-Great salary, benefits, free food and fun events. -Cool projects and there's a lot of talent in one studio. -Free movie screenings.

Inconvénients

-Everything seems very corporate, cold and cliquey. -The new young animators have become entitled and immature and it ends up feeling like you're in high school again. Who gets hired is based on who they know rather than pure skill. It's not about how well you perform either because they don't care about that they just care about bringing in and keeping cheap artists and those who get chummy with the leads and higher...

Conseils à la direction

Work on treating your employees better and don't treat them as just a number. Value the talent that you have rather than just using artists because they are cheap but are not qualified enough. This is no better than a sweatshop, we need some respect as an artist.

Avantages

Very friendly people Awesome projects to work on

Inconvénients

You never know if they will renew your contract until the last second.

Avantages

Salary and benefits are great. A lot of cool animated features and some vfx work. Some good people/talents. Reasonable overtimes. Occassional training classes from other departments and interests (mostly lunch time) Free movies

Inconvénients

The environment feels like elementary school and less professional. Any experienced individual would be swallowing pride each day just to follow the "way". Your true performance is kept on a tight leash and shrouded to upper management. Tasks are distributed like circus crazy. That leads to losing track from mixed artists involved, wasting massive time and effort, and Frustration. quality is behind quantity. The...

Conseils à la direction

For years, What are the parting interviews for?

Avantages

The environment is always positive and the training department is supportive and honest

Inconvénients

Not always the most exciting projects