People working at computers and drawing tablets in a brightly lit animation studio, with character posters on the wall.

The insinuation here is that Dreamworks has this wonderful studio of tenured animators who have been there for years and years, honing their craft and belonging to some kind of "family" that now they're unceremoniously breaking up. Yes, there are layoffs and that always blows, but the truth is the industry is not like this, and hasn't been for over a decade or more now. I'm not saying the normal is good and doesn't suck, but I don't know if I'd say it's on the same level as like, oh my god, dreamworks is closing its doors forever!!! This is more of a merger sort of thing, treat it like a merger. When you watch an animated film, the odds that the team of animators that worked on it is the same as the last animated film that studio produced, is pretty much zero. Do you notice huge dips in the animation? No, probably not, because animators are pretty damn good across the board, nomatter where they work. Obviously because they are all kinda evenly distributed. See, when you work in animation, you take a job on a movie, do that work, then you leave. It's contract work. Most if not all animators have worked the gamut: Disney, Sony, Dreamworks, Pixar, etc. You never stay in one place unless you're like 55 years old and have worked there since shit was recorded on VHS. In some ways, this sucks, but in other ways, if they didn't, there'd be next to zero chance for any young blood to join these studios. Many of the animators that worked at Dreamworks have, or will, work at different See more