SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – A former senior character effects artist is suing DreamWorks Animation and other companies he claims “conspired to systematically suppress the wages and salaries of those who they claim to prize as their greatest assets.”

Robert A. Nitsch Jr., who was employed by DreamWorks from 2007 until 2011 and was previously employed as a cloth/hair technical director for Sony Pictures Imageworks in 2004, named DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc.; Pixar; Lucasfilm Ltd LLC; the Walt Disney Company; Digital Domain 3.0 Inc.; ImageMovers; ImageMovers Digital; Sony Pictures Animation; and Sony Pictures Imageworks as defendants in the suit.