One of the worst places to start a carreer in VFX - 3D Digital Artist IXOR Visual FX Employee Review

1.0
23 June 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Most of the colleagues were nice and friendly. Some cool projects every now and then. Workplace is cozy(there are nice rooms that you can stay if you come from abroad) but sometimes get's a bit loud. Stray cats outside that you can play with. Most of the artists are trying to get better and push themselves which is great for collaboration and sharing knowledge. ....that's about it.

Cons

No management,no organization...feels like a joke to be honest. Bad salaries(even for Greece) and always late with the payment.Also sometimes they actually forget to pay you. Whenever a cool project lands a bunch of people are assigned to the same task so the boss-supervisor can later choose the best version and this leads to more aggravation, bad vibes and confusion. Also while having mostly a strong team of artists that "hold the fort" and can produce great content with the right motivation,the management prefers to hire freelancers to do the creative work and the in-house artists do the "cleaning-up" afterwards.This leads to nothing to put in your portfolio when the project ends because every shot of every project is like Frankenstein... Plus the boss-supervisor while having the last word in everything when the projects get tougher he bails on the team to go on vacation or play with his kids leaving the workforce to sort the problems out on their own. Plus,crunch hours at the end of every project were some of the longest i've experienced because of bad organization and leadership....and unpaid most of the times due to "the crisis".

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10 Feb 2017
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Pros

Easy to approach the big boss - has friendly attitude. Fun and very friendly coworkers - always trying to help each other. Occasionally cool projects (that get immediately destroyed by the lack of organisation.) Nice Studio - Facilities. Paid accommodation and bills.

Cons

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30 Jan 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I literally cannot think of a single thing good about this company. They are fools scamming freelancers for free work.

Cons

There is so much to say about this place because I couldn't even class it as a "proper" company which is incredibly suprising when you view their website it looks "normal" but you find out that not all the work is theirs, a number of projects/ images on there are AI generated or they hired a specific freelancer to make 1 good thing for them. According to glassdoor guidelines I can include the name of the company founder/ owner "Andronikos Bisogiannis" in both positive and or negative light. In this instance people need to understand that the company owner "Andronikos" is a complete fraud, he does not understand VFX or CG much at all. He is listed as the "Head of CG" but another former employee told me this is because he cannot legally be listed as the CEO anymore due to multiple cases of legal action being taken against him. (Apparently their "office", which is Andronikos house does not have internet on work computers). - Andronikos Bisogiannis (the founder/owner/head of cg) will not legally abide to a contract. I completed work for him under an agreement that it was 50% paid upfront and 50% on delivery but his communication disappeared very quickly into the project. He did not provide me with the assets he said they would, I spent huge amounts of time on the project and gave other IXOR employees cleaned organised files, bespoke hand made files I created and then after working nearly 340 hours in 24 days Andronikos and other IXOR staff ignored my invoice for the final 50%, even the total payment was low but as they have still ignored me I've spent over 300 hours working for him, on my own software and hardware, sending files, working every single day for 24 days straight for 2k euros which I'm quite sure would be beneath minimum wage thresholds in both our countries. - Andronikos Bisogiannis is more then happy for people to take legal action against him even when he is clearly in the wrong rather then pay them. - IXOR / Andronikos will ask you for all your files so they can then re-use them or claim it as their own work, however the people working there seemed to have a much lower knowledge and quality standard so I would doubt they could understand some of my more complicated scenes.

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