Imageworks Reviews
Updated 17 Jun 2019
Found 137 reviews
"There were long hours at times, but great people" (in 13 reviews)
"Good pay, great location, good benefits" (in 10 reviews)
"Great team of people and superb place to work."
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I worked at Imageworks full-time
Pros
Good working environment with competitive salaries for Vancouver. Positive atmosphere, great team, nice projects and great location.
Cons
Sometimes long hours and weekend work
Advice to Management
Keep doing what you're doing.
Imageworks2017-03-09"Great work, terrible job"
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Positive OutlookI have been working at Imageworks full-time for more than a year
Pros
Great pipeline, supervisors and leads are courteous & professional, opportunity to take on more challenging work, fun projects
Cons
Sub-par artist management, stifling of wages, corporate environment, cheap benefits, mandatory overtime
Advice to Management
If you paying peanuts, you get monkeys.
Imageworks2019-06-18"Good place to be"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Imageworks full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Best place to work in Vancouver if you are in vfx/anim industry
Cons
Supervisor and leads are in LA and hard to make a rapport with them
Imageworks2019-05-28"All right"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Imageworks full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Interesting projects, good people, had a decent pipeline for the time.
Cons
Some projects were not so great. Studio heads did not really know how to utilize the talent at the studio.
Imageworks2019-05-15- Helpful (2)
"Great company"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Imageworks full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Pipeline, benefits,pay are all great.
Cons
Culture is the biggest negative. Unfortunately all big companies with multiple locations suffer from this.
Advice to Management
Find better ways to keep the top tallent. Too many people get pigeon holed or disregarded due to cliques and company politics.
Imageworks2019-04-03 "Compositor"
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Pros
good company to work for in vfx
Cons
no cons in this company
Imageworks2019-02-17"Great Work Place"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Imageworks full-time for less than a year
Pros
Good vibe,helpful people,great management,lots of snacks!
Cons
There is some amount of overtime, but then all companies have it!
Imageworks2019-02-08"Good pipeline"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Imageworks full-time for more than a year
Pros
- great pipeline to work with - site license for houdini and katana - love how you can do dailies from your desktop and continue working - really good at doing animated movies
Cons
- inept at feature film vfx - senior management is located in LA
Advice to Management
- doing fine, as indicated by the success of Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse - keep making quality animated features - proceed with caution if you want to continue into vfx
Imageworks2019-02-05- Helpful (4)
"Toxic Environment"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Imageworks full-time for less than a year
Pros
-Great salary, benefits, free food and fun events. -Cool projects and there's a lot of talent in one studio. -Free movie screenings.
Cons
-Everything seems very corporate, cold and cliquey. -The new young animators have become entitled and immature and it ends up feeling like you're in high school again. Who gets hired is based on who they know rather than pure skill. It's not about how well you perform either because they don't care about that they just care about bringing in and keeping cheap artists and those who get chummy with the leads and higher...
Show MoreAdvice to Management
Work on treating your employees better and don't treat them as just a number. Value the talent that you have rather than just using artists because they are cheap but are not qualified enough. This is no better than a sweatshop, we need some respect as an artist.
Imageworks2019-02-26 "Pretty Great"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Imageworks full-time
Pros
great social and professional opportunities
Cons
A whole lot of people
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