Studio: Sphere Media
Job Opening: 2D Animators
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Participate in episodic launches to discuss the goals of your scenes and the role they play in the story.
- Manage and produce quality animated frames in Harmony within the established schedules.
- Work with your Supervisor to find the best solutions for tackling complex ideas.
- Check the scene planning
- Do the posing and have it approved by the lead animator before animating
- Animate the scene (cut-out and traditional animation)
- Make the walking and running cycles
- Animate elements or effects that cannot be animated in cut-out
- Apply the basic animation principles: staging, timing, acting, posing
- Maximize reuse both in animation and drawings
- Follow the soundtrack and do lip assigment of mouths
- Apply camera movements
- Make all requested corrections
- Fix, adjust, re-animate scenes according to the requests of the client and production
- Demonstrate leadership and share knowledge with your fellow team members
- Manage and meet established quota and execute shots in keeping with Director’s vision.
- Communicate with your Supervisor to ensure your weekly quota will be met.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Degree in animation, art, multimedia or equivalent experience
- Good knowledge of Toon Boom Harmony
- Good knowledge of technical basis in 2D animation
- Demonstrate autonomy while integrating easily within a team
- Creativity, attention to detail and concern for a job well done
- Work effectively within the technical constraints and timelines of the project
