Boulder Media Reviews

However, the gestures to boast morale is to counter the depression people experience working there. VERY restrictive creatively. The shows are extremely over produced (very clumsily), staff are not respected by upper management and micro management is rampant. You will be scapegoated. You will be under paid. You may not receive credits for your work. I was severely depressed working for the company and I don't know if I would ever be interested in returning. Having said that, there are multiple shows in production at the same time and your experience highly depends on what show you are on and who you are working with. Accepting a job in BM is a gamble. I had some good experiences there on productions but it was vastly out shadowed by the negative.

- The pay is abysmal, especially considering this studio is in Dublin, a city infamous for its sky high rent prices. When I joined I was told that pay was reviewed annually. This did not happen once. - Not much chance of advancing your career within the company - The production and management teams can be painfully uncoordinated and vague with little briefing or instruction. They can sometimes even be manipulative. - Can be expected to work late/ work weekends with no extra pay. - Creative liberty is very limited due to working for a large corporation which cares mainly for product sales. The cartoons you make are basically adverts for toys. Just know what you're getting into. - Training promises go unfulfilled - Work wears you down and makes you depressed so that at the end of the work day you have no fervour for working on personal art to be used for portfolio, so you can start feeling trapped.