Avoid At All Costs - Digital Artist CoSA VFX Employee Review

1.0
1 June 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get to work on amazing projects with amazing people

Cons

My pro was sarcastic and a lie. You work with the worst management/HR in the industry. These people are the delinquents of VFX. Meaning these are the morons nobody would/should hire anywhere else. They know nothing about VFX. The company has no pipeline, their supervisors are a joke, with years of industry experience, yet, 0 industry/production knowledge. They are the, Fake It Till You Make It, type of people. The owners have 0 respect for their hard working artists. They will fire you in the most inappropriate and unprofessional manner. One of the heads loves telling people, "Most of you WILL NOT be back for next season." To me, this is the most fear mongering approach to getting artists to fear for their jobs and somehow work harder, It's also a sign of poor leadership. Instead of talking with artists that may not be performing at the level of this studios expectations, and giving them positive critiques, they just fire them,. I have witnessed first hand a head of a department throw another supervisor under the bus, after telling artists to do a job one way, going over that supervisors head, and when the work was not done as the client had asked for, the head blamed it on the unknowing supervisor, who actually gave his artists the correct notes, but was immediately undermined by this head. Point being, this place is full of heads/supervisors/owners who bring too much drama, and not any real professional experience to the table. Basically ran by a lot of losers. Do not work here, I've told almost every artist in town to avoid this place, and if you're reading all these bad reviews, you'll do yourself a huge solid by avoiding such a pathetic excuse of a studio.

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Pros

During my time there, they had a mix of projects to work on, so you had different challenges and tasks to complete. It was never boring. Lots of support from those around me. From coworkers to leads and supervisors, you had access to a vast network of knowledgeable artists and were learning new techniques.

Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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