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Comfortable Animator Job w/ Good Benefits - 2D Animator Newscape Studios Employee Review

4.0
Jun 16, 2024
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Pros

I'm honestly only writing this review because I saw some really toxic ones on here. I started at Newscape a couple years ago, and it's by far the best animation job I've ever had. It's 100% work from home, I've literally never worked over 40 hours in a week, and despite what I've read, management has always treated me with respect and values my opinions. I can't speak to anyone else's personal experiences, but I've had zero issues with my supervisor or hours or workload. With that said, I don't really talk to upper management much to begin with. I've worked at several animation companies and on a slew of projects before Newscape, and they were all way more strenuous when it came to hours, workload and turnaround times. Here, I have a normal work week with consistent work and while it's not exactly cartoons I feel passionate about, at least I feel there's some job security and some upward momentum.

Cons

Benefits are pretty good, but recently health insurance went up which I know technically isn't the company's fault, but is worth mentioning. Would prefer if we had more holidays off and more PTO as well.

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5.0
Mar 21, 2025
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Pros

- Nearly all employees are salary (non-exempt) meaning they can still accrue OT pay. - 120 hours of PTO - Consistent, reasonable work in an entertainment business full of turnover and burnout

Cons

Fully-remote work is not ideal for all employees. Most of the staff prefer it, however, and it saves substantially on office costs.

2.0
Mar 11, 2026
Anonymous contractor
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Pros

- Great coworkers who are as amicable as they are talented. - Flexible hours for remote contractors

Cons

- Sub-industry standard pay - Prioritizes hiring via contracts to avoid providing benefits. - Contractors are hired on a week by week basis despite signing a contract to be with the company for several months with no guarantee that work or payment will be provided during that period. - As an artist you're given only one week to do a volume of work that most other studios give 2-3 months for which degrades the overall quality of the work you can do. You are forced to cut corners or work past 40 hours a week. - Not enough resources are given to help artists meet those deadlines such as proper visual development art for new locations or reference images that aren't from YouTube Let's Plays. - Trend chasing projects with little to no originality. - While not mandated crunch is basically mandated with the limited amount of time to do assignments.

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