A group of animation workers have reached a $100ย million settlement with theย Walt Disney Company, Pixar and Lucasfilm after they filed a class action lawsuit claiming the companies conspired to fix animation wages.
Filed in December 2014 on behalf ofย Robert Nitsch, who was a senior character effects artist at DreamWorks Animation from 2007 to 2011, the suit had alleged that the plaintiffs — which also includedย Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures Animation, Pixar and Lucasfilm — violated antitrust laws by using “non-poaching” agreements to suppressย wages.
Additional plaintiffs on the lawsuit wereย David Wentworth, aย former ImageMovers Digital production engineer, and Georgia Cano, a digital artist who had also worked at ImageMovers Digital, as well as Rhythm & Huesย andย Walt Disney Feature Animation.