Great studio - Senior Layout Artist Gigglebug Employee Review

5.0
26 Jul 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Extremely competitive rates for an European animation studio. Great shows, great IT team and great management They care about work efficiency and overall employee happiness. Talking with artists who have worked there for 3-5 years, the consensus seems to be that things improve from production to production. Unlike most studios, they seem to actively make a good effort to keep people in Helsinki informed of what's happening next and whether they are staying on the next production. You'll find many people who moved to Helsinki and have been able to work there for years and years. Which to me is always a great sign of a good studio.

Cons

Just my opinion. Storyboard artists aren't given much time and are incentivized to focus 100% of their time on composition and acting. It makes their reel and presentations to the client look great but many things are ignored such as scale, perspective, matching location, continuity, and proper staging. As it happens in many pre school shows, budget constraints on the show I was on demanded far too much location reuse.

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5.0
1 Jul 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice team, happy to work there.

Cons

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2.0
24 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very nice colleagues nice projects

Cons

Unreliable promises from the leadership, disrespect of workers when making big decisions regarding future employments, not keeping their word regarding decisions already made, blurry wording, dubious conditions, you can never be sure if your contract ends or would be extended last minute, no timely notice on all that regardless of the fact many employees are from other countries and need this vital info for their residence permits, etc.

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