Reel FX reviews

RFX writes checks they can't cash and then burns out their artists to meet ungodly deadlines. This company has been built on false promises and burned bridges. - Extra Work / Low Pay - No Incentive (will dangle the carrot and not follow through) - No Creative Leadership - Pixar = Lasseter, Dreamworks = Katzenberg, Illumination = Meledandri, RFX = ???? - Poor Management and Leadership - Slaves to the paint by numbers spreadsheets with no input on how to solve problems when they arrive other than to make artists stay late for no overtime. - Company leaders take a lot of credit for doing very little work - Project ADD aka: "Git'r done" mentality: Loves a project during bidding process and early development, but after a month or so the new toy is no longer interesting and it's onto the next big money maker! Seriously, don't let these people use you to get any further in the industry.

Artist waste huge amounts of time working around issues that have long since been solved at other facilities. No one seems interested in solving the base, underlying efficiency problems. Employees would rather ( or only have the capacity to ) build elegant hacks to band-aid the problems rather that identify and and remedy them. Many of the tools have been developed in a 'vacuum' without much input from folks with outside experience. Most of the constructive feedback from experienced employees is dismissed and never seriously considered. No one is interested in re-thinking any portion of the pipeline, only re-working or polishing the same out-date toolset. No one has onus of the pipeline and thus there is no vision for the future of the pipeline. There is no 'roadmap' to future technologies, and no cohesive plan to take the studio to the 'next step' while also delivering the current slate of shows. Horrible communication with artists about looming deadlines. Everyone know and 'accepts' that a huge amount of unpaid OT will be required to deliver the show and thats just OK with everyone. On Freebirds your only OT was 2 rationed slices of pizza for dinner. Seriously, they tracked how many pieces of pizza you ate!