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Newscape Studios reviews

3.1

52% would recommend to a friend

(30 total reviews)

49% positive business outlook

Newscape Studios has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 30 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Newscape Studios employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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30 reviews
1.0
Dec 17, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Full time animation work, benefits, PTO, unpaid holidays, decent pay (if you were getting the same as everyone else)

Cons

-Animation department run by people who don't understand the animation pipeline -Strict 1 week deadlines for 8+ minute Youtube videos (from storyboards to final animation, 1 week total) -Grind culture -Unpaid holidays. Company would "guarantee" time off for the holidays but would then turn around and say "IF you want the time off, you have to do this, this, this, etc". Also promised no weekend work leading up to holidays and then required it as holidays came closer -Work conducted over Discord. Didn't require work Discord account so employees used their personal ones. A supervisor looked through PRIVATE discord chats and fired 90% of the animation department based on trivial things people had said, and things that people wanted to change about the company so it was a better place to work -Hired and promoted people to "team lead" position, but gave them no managerial training. Supervisors also constantly undermined team lead decisions. What's the point of a "team lead" if they can't lead a team to your liking? -Company claims to be receptive to feedback, but then fires people for talking about how to bring up their issues with management in a constructive way

2.0
Dec 15, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Reasonable pay for an entry level position in this field Steady supply of wide range of projects

Cons

Very demanding workload for everyone especially Background Artists and Aftereffects animators Fired more than half the animation team for speaking to each other in a separate chat Volatile business strategies

1.0
Jan 7, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

my fellow artists and co workers were a joy to work with

Cons

the management at newscape were constantly making huge mistakes and then shifting blame onto the employees. Threatening us with working through weekends and holidays to fix their mistakes. No one at the top of this studio understands how to effectivly produce animation.

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