As I read through many of these comments I quickly see there is a lack of knowledge and enormous amount of scapegoating. First, lets quickly understand the reason for this 'disaster'. It stems from the over zealous hiring that occurred in November... — read more 

Why nobody from Bangalore is posting here? You guys have an opinion too and you are too being affected. Chime in, the more the better...

@"Yes you are" - "Transitioned Outside the Company" is the best line ever, should be trademarked...

I am F-IN bummed to read all this crap! I am in school pursuing a degree in animation and I was hoping to land a job at a studio. Based on what you guys write here it looks like I would have to relocate to China or India in order to find ANY work in... — read more 

"Not Afraid of my Shadow" is absolutely right. Dreamworks problem resides within. Useless managers like Barb Cimity, Nancy Bernstein, and countless other drones in middle management. Inept VFX Supes like Doug Cooper and Craig Ring who play more... — read more 

I don't know why admitting that "I'm too lazy to look for work elsewhere" discredits anything I said. I didn't say I was too lazy to do a good job or to be proficient at what I do. I said I was too lazy to quit, NOT too lazy to work. Big difference... — read more 

NotAfraid of my Shadow - "Amen" to every word, you tell it like it is :) The truth is a hard pill to swallow. Too bad that the highest rungs of the mgmt ladder are blind/oblivious to the mis-management that occurs right under them. If that layer of... — read more 

NOTAFRAID OF MY SHADOW. Nobody in India "stole" anyone's job. DreamWorks advertised in India, people in India applied for jobs, and were given them. The writing was on the wall when JK announced the India studio. This can't be taking anyone by... — read more 

@MyShadow - "And I'm too lazy to look for work elsewhere" pretty much discredits everything noted in your post... You should be ashamed of yourself as you are no different from the folks you are trashing in your post. I hope you get axed and someone... — read more 

Some interesting comments on here for sure. As someone who has worked at the Glendale campus for the last 10 years, some thoughts. -India workers claiming to be as "hurt" by the layoffs. First off, there is no way they're laying off anywhere near the... — read more 

This is true. Remember many of DW's development team are rejects from Disney's dark days. Their approach to story development is very outdated.

Honestly, having 3 vs 2 pics a year at DW didn't hurt story quality because they have (had) enough staff to keep the projects pretty separate. If a bad story comes out of DW it is because that is simply the level of story that JK their story dept is... — read more 

I am from India and I can tell you that our numbers are being cut as well. It's not a happy situation here as well as most people like working from DWA and take a great pride in it. When it comes to quality, given that we typically have less... — read more 

I am still stuck on the ipads, Insult to injury..India got iPads? And does India not know that no one can tell the difference in their 25% of Mad 3 because it all had to be fixed in Glendale? So much nimrod misinformation

breaking news! India is soon to be flooded with immigrants round the world looking for feature film and VFX and tv and game work

Seriously, I can understand you're hurt by the lay offs, but putting so much anger on us, we are just employees like you, artists in our country with not the same schools than you or your life style, sorry for that, seeing how you speak of us doesn't... — read more 

Sad.

Management/"execs": the likes of Barb Cimity running around with a fly-by-night "MBA" "degree", getting paid fat dollars for bossing people around. People such as JA running around foul-mouthed and drunk, making unkeepable promises to get people to... — read more 

Hi everyone.. before you post, get into anonymous browsing mode (I use Firefox and Chrome, both allow this, I'm sure other browsers do also), then post! That way your particulars aren't traceable. GREAT forum, let the truth come out!

Funny how every time good points are raised, the spam starts flowing. I hear DW outsourced the spam jobs to China as well.

I like the cut of your jib. I have found that when major divergences from the current flow of events take place, it often results in an "olfactory hallucination". I percieve a foul smell, something like a mix of sulpher and feces and burning hair... — read more 

Not blaming the India campus.... and I seriously doubt half of them are being laid off. They get paid peanuts.... literally. Blaming Joe Aguilar, Ann Daly....and any other douchebag executive that thought it would be a good idea to farm work out to... — read more 

This is from Hollywood Reporter: Katzenberg, who had been receiving $1 million per year, will receive an annual base salary of $2.5 million under the new agreement and will be eligible for annual cash bonuses of $4 million. Ann Daly’s annual base... — read more 

Half of the India staff is being cut as well. Obviously this is a terrible situation, but you can't blame it on the India campus, when they are being cut as well.

Oh, stop whining, JK made a decision to hire you, now he changed his mind and it is as simple as that... Move on, you are all smart and will do fine working for someone else...

I find it hard to believe Dreamworks employees would train people in India or China to steal our jobs. Who would do such a thing?

As someone affected directly by the layoffs, I can say a lot of what you read on here between all the spam is true. JK has been lying to us for years. "India is just for overflow work" is one story he told us. "India is just for Direct to Video" he... — read more 

Raises for execs and all those in charge of failure unite! Long live DW!

I feel sorry for the people being laid off, but I have always thought that DreamWorks Animation had a bad habit of biting off more than it can chew. When the studio takes its time to develop a project and ensure quality we end up with Kung Fu Panda... — read more 

I thought the film industry was going to take care of me!

My understanding is that DWA was expanding its feature lineup from 2 to 3 per year as a response to make up for the shortfalls of shrinking DVD sales. Now that they are going back to a 2 feature/yr schedule and DVD sales continue to fall, are we... — read more 

Curry has a good point there. Oops.

Wake up and smell the Curry, Dreamworkers. You think your jobs are going to come back to California? If they do come back at all....they'll be going directly to India. You shouldn't complain though.....you've been training them to replace you. That... — read more 

DWA went public too early. JK wanted to raise a ton of money fast while relinquishing power so he went to the capital markets. DWA relies too heavily on the box office returns of just 2-3 properties a year, making it highly volatile in the eyes of... — read more 

Sad to hear especially with the production slate that Dreamworks had been announcing all of last year (2-3 fully animated features a year for the next few years). Just when things seemed at their peak they get brought back down, good luck to everyone... — read more 

The 5-year Plan could be the cause of the downsizing, not to mention, the underperformance of Rise of The Guardians could been a factor. These are troubling times indeed.

There seems to be a correlation between the hiring bonanza at Dreamworks a few years ago and todays receding tide...It's the old Boom and Bust cycle rearing it's ugly head. I don't know if there's any way of averting the trend. The one thing I've... — read more 

Interwoven with all these thoughts about quality versus quantity is the sense that animation fans will go to see anything. I understand parents taking their kids to see a familiar franchise. What I don't get is the many readers of this site who don't... — read more 

I'm a little bit puzzled here Amid,when Dreamworks committed to 2-3 movies release where they still at par with Paramount?Now with the deal with Fox does that commitment still stands,remember I think Fox still has Blue Sky in their wing.Could this be... — read more 

Today has been filled with some great questions and comments. Yesterday was a bit aggressive. It's too bad whoever is scared to see their name on previous pages is spamming the messages down. Good luck DW folks. We are thinking about you.