Studio: Boulder Media
Job Opening: 2D Animation Team Leads
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Leading, mentoring, and managing a team of animators;
- Attending creative, production and management meetings when required;
- Understanding the style and expectations of the show being produced;
- Participate in the initial breakdown and structuring of the project with the production team;
- Submitting only animation of the highest standard required from your team, including key and final animation;
- Communicating in a clear and timely manner with your team, departmental leads, and supervisors;
- Providing sketches, notes, and guidance to your team;
- Taking ownership and responsibility of your own work and your teams;
- Highlighting problems and providing solutions within your team and department;
- Managing team assignments, approvals, deadlines and retake expectations;
- Keeping up to date with your drawing skills, continuously improving with tutorials, life drawing, sketching and general animation research;
- As part of your continuous development, you are expected to keep up to date with the latest initiatives and developments in your area of expertise for the role, such as (but not limited to) training, learning and development initiatives and mentoring;
- Day-To-Day;
- Episode Prep;
- Assigning an episode;
- Managing an episode;
- Managing Staff;
- Any other duties company management may from time to time deem necessary and reasonably require.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Proven experience within the Animation industry with at least a few years of Animation experience;
- Good knowledge of Toon Boom Harmony;
- Excellent knowledge of the reuse library and employ it wherever possible to achieve the highest level of efficiency for your team;
- Positive and professional attitude with great aptitude for drawing, animation, and observation;
- Excellent organizational and time management skills;
- Strong and clear communicator fluent in English, both spoken and written;
- Ability to lead and manage a team;
- Flexible, willing to learn, and self-motivated with good interpersonal skills;
- Able to work within a production schedule.
