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Meh - 3D Animator Steamroller Studios Employee Review

3.0
7 Jul 2023
Recommend
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Pros

They're pretty good at recruiting genuine talent, I worked with some amazing artists and A+ leads during my time there. Large variety of projects, which can be a double edged sword (you won't get bored, but high likelihood of working on some stinkers.) In my experience, crunch happened, but no unpaid overtime (was always compensated "appropriately" in comparison to my base rate.)

Cons

Basically everyone was being underpaid; mid level artists and even some newer juniors were making more than leads that had been with the studio for years. If you got in early, you were likely being screwed over as newer talent was paid higher and more attractive wages, and even the newer wages weren't great. Mount Dora is a relatively low cost area to live in, but it's an extremely small town with nothing much to do if you're not married with 2.5 kids (also, it's in Florida, which is extremely yikes.) I also heard plenty of horror stories from fellow employees re: being shouted down and disrespected by leadership behind closed doors. Because I got assigned to a stream of lower tier "garbage contract" projects in my last year at the studio, I also left the studio with barely any work fit for a demo reel, which really hurt me in my job hunt after my time with them ended.

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5.0
30 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Easily the best Studio Ive worked for. Lower than average pay but treat their Artists great.

Cons

The offer lower than average pay

1.0
16 Nov 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

*The artists are really great. The individual teams care a lot for each other *Can work remotely *Pretty stable in comparison to a lot of jobs in the industry

Cons

*You can work for years here and have very little to put on your demo reel *Pay is very low and the studio is very stingy with money in general, but they will spend huge amounts on their IPs/passion projects *A lot of the projects aren't very interesting and you can get stuck on the same project for years. Most people come to the studio to work on steamrollers IP's, but only a few 'favorite' animators will be put on those projects *Studio feels very separate project to project. Every project feels isolated and there's no unity even within departments *Communication is really bad. Vital information rarely reaches anyone it needs to. Mainly you have to listen to rumors to try and piece together what's going on *Very little room for promotions *There's been a decent amount of furloughs that turn into layoffs recently *Many departments desperately need more people and become overworked and stressed. The studio also doesn't like to pay for OT which leads to people being overworked and ghosting hours *There's an aura of toxic positivity. It's very frowned upon to mention anything negative. It can make a lot interactions feel cold and unauthentic *There's a good amount of gaslighting from the higher ups and refusal to see what is wrong and fix it. It just feels like nobody in management actually knows what they're doing.

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