Titmouse Reviews

Worked for Titmouse for a number of years. In that time the culture shifted hard downwards despite multiple employee complaints. Deadlines got harder, projects became less and less passionate, pay stagnated, and the quality declined as bigger and bigger projects forced the studio to grow much faster than it could responsibly handle. Transparency also went completely out the window with the replacement of a studio head who knew everyone's names with new management that couldn't seem to care less, or at the very least care far more about the company than the people who make the company work in the first place. Employees aren't treated with the respect they deserve, and seemed to be viewed as disposable or not worth listening to.

Starting in 2019, there was a major shift in management, and as a result, it feels like the LA studio has a lot more sway on how the Vancouver studio is operated. In the "growing pains" to make all the Titmouse studios uniform, the Vancouver studio has lost a lot of that spark that made it one of the greatest animation studios to work at in Vancouver (and lost a lot of their long-term employees in the mix.) Gone are the days of full, honest communication between employees and management. Now days are full of double-talk, and job insecurity. Job creep has also seeped its way into employees' lives more and more, slowly giving employees more and more responsibilities outside of what they're already expected to do, resulting in a tired, and overloaded workforce (this might have been a result of the studio expanding too quickly.) It feels like upper management doesn't care about all their employees, or at the very least, doesn't treat them with the respect that their talents deserve. Old management made an effort to get to know everyone and worked with artists if there was an issue. In the new management's defense, they do seem overworked as well, but they also make no effort to talk to any of the artists on the floor unless the studio's morale is troublingly low.