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DreamWorks Animation

Part of NBCUniversal

Is this your company?

Great potential for this company but struggling with the vision thing. - Technical Director DreamWorks Animation Employee Review

4.0
Jul 13, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Dreamworks Animation is has got some amazing artists, both digital and traditional. Every comapny has a few bad apples, but at Dreamworks for every 1 problematic personality you'll work with 50 others who are great people, smart, professional. Can learn a lot from you coworkers there if you keep an open mind. Great benefits, which includes the lush campus in Glendale (this review for Glendale location), "free" breakfast and lunch, fun company events too. Pretty good technology there too, Dreamworks Animation has consistently made heavy investments in advancing their production tools - though that comes with a cost.

Cons

Dreamworks Animation constistently has trouble coming up with movies that people can get excited about. The core mission, make animated movies, is what they are struggling with. Many of the lower-level artists, acutally making the films, wonder what the thought process is in the story department and at the executive level that so many films there that start off as great ideas end up as disappointments once finally up on screen. It's not the quality of the graphics, or the voice acting, or the animation itself. It's the story. Disney and Pixar have gotten story right so consistnetly over the years that they can afford a dud here and there. But at Dreamworks Animation dud stories seem to be the rule and great stories the exception. Other: Much of the technology (software) used there is outdated. Training department is ineffective. Very little room for advancement if you are an artist acutally making the film. Several of the art-type departements (like animation) can be very clickish.

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5.0
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Pros

Free breakfast and Lunch, an amazing work culture, work life balance, and the best team you can work with

Cons

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3.0
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Pros

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Cons

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