At WDAS Tujunga: Most of the animators on the first floor, their work completed, have decamped for the Hat Building. (And nobody sad to be leaving. The building is out in the dusty reaches of the Burbank-Bob Hope Airport's "no man's land" beyond the main runway, surrounded by machine and body shops and acres of cracked asphalt. And not a decent restaurant within three country miles of the front door).
Upstairs, the lighting department (and various surfacers) continue on Moana for another month. ...
At WDAS Riverside Drive: Interior construction seems to be at an end, since the first floor is filling up, the curved staircase from the front entrance to the second floor is now operational, and cubicles and offices are filling up. The big common area on floor #2, somewhat similar to Pixar's large open space, with hardwood floors, tables in the center and couches out on the edges, looks to be fulfilling its function as a place for employees to meet and interact. A staffer said:
"The plan was to cap out staff at 870. The redone building would hold that many people, but now we're up to 920 and the pace wasn't designed for that number of employees. So they're going to have to make adjustments. Rooms with two people will now have three. Rooms containing four people will now have five."...
I observed that management could always add cubes to some of the open areas. (Not an option they would like much, I'm betting).
The staffer said it could come to that.
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"I observed that management could always add cubes to some of the open areas. (Not an option they would like much, I'm betting).
The staffer said it could come to that."
Maybe Disney has a suitable building across the street on the main lot that could house the overflow from Animation ?
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