Read this: The working conditions on Inside Out 2 were reportedly a "shitshow"
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We want to believe that Pixar, the industry standard for ambitious creativity and childlike wonder, has a positive workplace culture. Instead, a new report from IGN indicates it’s the industry standard for animation (derogatory). In other words, serious grind, for little money, until everyone starts losing their minds. And like every major studio, Pixar execs have been “acting in a fear-based way” since the pandemic and strikes, as one source put it, “So I think morale is really low because people no longer trust that they’re being led with their best interests at heart.”
Pixar was in a bit of a slump before Inside Out 2 became the highest-grossing animated film of all time. The Pixar employees interviewed described the atmosphere of Inside Out 2‘s production as “a life or death situation” and “an all-hands-on-deck studio emergency.” Though a Pixar representative told IGN that the workload was normal, these insiders describe the crunch as “unprecedented.” Here are just a few of the things the sources said about working on Inside Out 2 and its follow-up, Elio:
“I think for a month or two, the animators were working seven days a week. Ridiculous amounts of production workers, just people being tossed into jobs they’d never really done before… It was horrendous.”