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Avantages

Working with some great people who bring their talent to a company that sorely lacks respect for it.

Inconvénients

Everything. Broken pipeline, kept on life support by legacy ILMers who refuse to change. Horrible deadlines and under-bid shows that cause unmanageable chaos. Clients are verbally abusive and disrespectful to the artists making their films and ILM does NOTHING ... because clients are money. So, minimize the employees and ignore them, clients are all that matters no matter how crazy, incompetant or rude they are. ILM has...

Conseils à la direction

Listen to your employees and make the changes that enable ILM to adapt to how these shows are done now. Treat your staff with respect. They don't want donuts for doing a good job and long hours, they want raises and work/life balance in reward for their skills.

Avantages

Not one besides the fact it's got this big name and good benefits.

Inconvénients

If you are not friends with the right group of people you are out. You might say that's any company out there but I've been at almost all of the big companies in the industry. Nothing even comes close the how ILM works.

Conseils à la direction

Stop giving out any kind of work related special treatment to your friends. It's so painfully obvious. Stop treating your drinking buddies in the departments like employees first class and the rest like disposable attachments. Stop giving them the best work unconditionally and the rest who doesn't suck up to the gods of the departments are neglected. Stop giving long contracts and staff to only your drinking buddy sweat...

Avantages

Great work environment, great projects, great tools

Inconvénients

lack of ability to move within the company top heavy

Avantages

You get some perks, and sometimes if you are lucky you get to work on a nice project, and if you are very very lucky you get a nice shot and if you are very very very lucky, the sup will not take it before you finish it to give it to one of his preferred accolytes and call it his own and add it on his reel.

Inconvénients

Everything. It is ruled by americanised culture, high school back-stabbing and rumours. You need to have your nose completely browned out to get a few decent shots. You need to take condescending treatment very well cause even if you are smarter or better learned (very easy thing at ILM) than the higher ups, they will regardless tell you how to do a roto...that's right, petty ignorant behaviour left and right. Your...

Conseils à la direction

Start giving bonuses to hires no matter the contract length, it's immoral what you are doing. Maybe you need undercover people to check the hire ups behaviour? Sing, Van are a mess, people need to get axed.

Avantages

good project good studio location some amazing artists and talent

Inconvénients

cheap pays artist managers that doesn't keep their promise favoring people that they know to promote instead of talents

Conseils à la direction

respect the artists

Avantages

very nice place to work

Inconvénients

Very crowd and hard to work sometimes

Avantages

I work at ILM 1year and a half. I loved it. I was in the creature department. I come more from a rigging background but I love Zeno, the soft for doing simulation. The first 3 months were really confusing, but the community around Zeno at ILM in all the different facilities is huge and made my life easier. You have a good perspective career if you stay and if you prove you are good and willing to not have a good pay.

Inconvénients

Average pay, they play with the fact a lot of people wants to come. Lot of overtime but it's common in the VFX

Conseils à la direction

give a better raise to your artists if you value them. Try harder to keep them or people like me who love the company will leave again and again.

Avantages

- Some of the projects are good - There is a gym - There are some cool people to work with - There is free food and drinks sometimes - You get to see crew screenings of movies for free

Inconvénients

- You get harassed by junkies and homeless people right outside of the office - There is a LOT of overtime on every project and it's still getting worse - People from other studios are hired for lead or supervisor jobs instead of promoting people already there - There are a lot of double standards: 1. Friends of management can say and do things other people would get fired for 2. Women bad at their jobs will get...

Conseils à la direction

- Get rid of the people there because of favoritism and politics and get rid of the management and supervisors doing that - Promote more people already working there instead of strangers from other studios - Fix how much overtime everyone has to work on every project