Animal Logic Reviews

Pros

Nice environment, Sydney is a nice city and AL projects are fun!

Cons

Short contracts, Animation pipeline is good but could be improved

Pros

People here are happy to work for this company, and treat each other with respect, especially in the IT department.

Cons

In my two years there productions would always run through holidays, and as a Render Wrangler, would be expected to work during Christmas and New Years.

Pros

I loved working at AL, cannot recommend it enough. The social environment is positive and inspiring, the facility is beautiful, clean and well maintained, with an outdoor roof patio area for lunches or beer Friday time. They bring in free lunches every other Thursday and free breakfast every Friday. They even have an artist management team that checks in with you periodically to ask about your over all career goals... at the company and offers ways to help you get there. Even after my contract ended, they continued to take care of me by sending my resume and reel out to other companies with their reverse recruitment program, and I started getting interviews right away, before I had even begun job hunting on my own. I appreciate that so much! Great projects, great people, great place to work.

Cons

We had to work some Saturdays during crunch time. There was rather alot of OT toward the end of the project, but I think that's become an industry standard unfortunately, and not really specifically a problem of this company.

Pros

Great place to work, very sociable, many events for employees, great kitchen, activities, very familiar atmosphere, great buildings, access to financial counseling, HR team is great and helps you with everything, relocation, very talented people and environment, friendly staff.

Cons

- a lot of crunch time (yet you never felt stressed)

Advice to Management

It would be great to have more continuous work, so people would not have to leave this company

Pros

Nice work environment Free lunch on Thursdays

Cons

Large facility, lots of people you don't get to know everyone.

Pros

The talent is great, and nice people to whether with

Cons

No room to grow, don't expect high raises.. If any. Get in high! Because that's all you'll get. Too many production people. Unecessarry .

Advice to Management

Cut down on production cost and give it to the artists who really deserve it

Pros

Animal know how to take care of their staff, with many staff events and a fully functioning catering kitchen!

Cons

Long term work outlook is per contract, thus reasonably volatile as expected.

Pros

Flexible hours and a large enough team to support the studio infrastructure. I actually feel like I have the support of my team and managers.

Cons

The communication between the locations in Sydney, Vancouver, and LA is still a work in progress. No clear indication on what to expect in the future.

Advice to Management

Communicate changes to all sites before they are made. Clean up the lines of communication to clarify the path of escelation.