Studio: Flying Bark Productions
Job Opening: 3D Animator
Location: New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- The 3D Animator is responsible for bringing life to the characters of the project, with an emphasis on enhancing the story and audience connection with the characters and narrative.
- Additionally, working to, and maintaining, the creative and technical requirements for animation for the project as required by the Animation Director; and to the production and shot schedule provided by the Production Company.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum requirement of 2+ years production experience in 3D animated films and/or animated episodic;
- Demo Reels showcasing excellent facial performance & body mechanics;
- Portfolios with mature, stylized and anime-inspired animation preferred. 2D animation experience is a bonus but non-essential for this role. Somewhat in the vein of Spiderverse, Intergalactic, Arcane and The Witness [Love, Death, Robots];
- Good sense of narrative storytelling, comic timing and emotive visual language;
- Excellent experience with character animation including lip sync and key posing in a CG animation environment;
- Solid experience and understanding of Maya in a production based environment;
- Solid knowledge of animation workflows, character rigs and storyboard interpretation;
- Experience creating animated sequences of characters, objects, and cameras,
- Able to collaborate with the animation team to achieve the EPs vision
- Proficient with keyframe animation and have strong fundamentals such as posing, timing, and pacing;
- Ability to rough out animation blocking for review, then revise and polish to completion;
- Strong understanding of the principles of animation;
- Passion for animation and storytelling.
