What are co-workers like at SHADOWMACHINE?

Pros

Great staff and plenty of opportunities to shine individually. Higher rate of job security due to the union and the studio's willingness to keep the same people within the studio. Good place to build career.

Cons

Fast paced workload. VERY fast paced, be ready to pull your weight every day, try to stay focused while you work, and remember to take breaks. Breaks are important.

Pros

Great coworkers, good communication and understanding of the stress of tight production timelines. Good WFH support.

Cons

Production timelines are extremely tight for the expectation of quality delivered as a storyboard artist.

Pros

Great workplace with lots of great talented people

Cons

No billionaires - there are little things, but not worth mentioning

Advice to Management

Make sure we take the time to keep on producing world-class award-winning shows and not just do the work to do the work

Pros

great work environment, amazing people, fun work

Cons

small; fewer resources, not great pay

Pros

provides equipment nice people cool events

Cons

confusing production pipeline lack of support in production change of end date last minute

Pros

Incredibly talented and friendly team. Producer really cared about quality of life and work/life balance for the team. Union shop for both Production and Editorial.

Cons

On-site infrastructure not fully road-tested, lots of technical issues when working from the office (especially w/ streaming for remote reviews) but pretty painless experience working from home.

Pros

Incredibly talented and friendly team. Producer really cared about quality of life and work/life balance for the team. Union shop for both Production and Editorial.

Cons

On-site infrastructure not fully road-tested, lots of technical issues when working from the office (especially w/ streaming for remote reviews) but pretty painless experience working from home.

Pros

Attracts lots of talented people

Cons

Most people know this place is awful, but it’s even worse than it’s reputation. Basically the 2 people in leadership underbid other studios for big productions, then underpay and overwork their artists while hoarding the budget for their own salaries. When the artists call them on it, leadership is prepared— at the outset, they hire expendable people they can claim as responsible for the guaranteed misery and burnout and all the cost cutting, who they can fire when the heat is on them. It’s all an open secret, and happens on all of their productions. HR is one person that participates in the exploitation. The misoginy is constant. The lying is constant. People are hired just to rankle and undermine eachother. The most toxic place I’ve ever worked headed by the kind of sleazeballs who usually work in bro jobs but somehow ended up making cartoons.

Pros

Flexible hours. remote/hybrid work, helpful and competent studio and tech team, social events with coworkers.

Cons

Can't really think of any except COVID made it all remote so it was hard to get to know coworkers that well.

Pros

- Nice people - Good pay - Got to work on a fun primetime show

Cons

- None at the moment