Studio: Lightbox
Job Opening: Animation Lead
Location: Remote
Type: Temporary, Full-time
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for ensuring the Animators animate characters and props according to the Director instructions and style of the project.
- Develop high-quality animations that reveal attitude, express a wide range of emotions, personality and mood through a character’s movement.
- Ensure the team creates stylized and fascinating animations for assigned characters and props with clear and readable poses, timing and weight.
- Ensure animations meet technical and creative requirements and an efficient production pipeline.
- Ensuring that the animation is completed and delivered on time, to the agreed quality standards.
- Globally responsible for quality control across the Animators.
- Work closely with the Department Managers to optimize team schedules and scene assignments to achieve master scheduled deliverable.
- Continue to work as the film goes into production to ensure animated scenes remain on design.
- Deep knowledge on how animation affects the animation pipeline.
- Ability to work autonomously and independently in a fully remote environment, with that comes the supreme individual responsibility to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and maintain your own initiative.
- Great team player, create a collaborative and welcoming environment.
- Proven ability to meet deadlines, prioritize workload and within budgets, adhere to the production schedule and deliver completed assignments on time.
- Align with the style, sensibility of the project and the Director vision.
- Mentoring and leading junior animators.
Qualifications & Skills:
- You have significant experience in a production environment as Lead Animator on Animated Feature.
- Extensive experience using Maya.
- Positive attitude with continuous feedback from director, supervisor, and leads and change animations to better suit project needs.
- Solid understanding of the animation pipeline.
- Rigging knowledge is a plus.
- Ability to take feedback constructively and implement it effectively, to reach the quality desired.
- Anticipation and quick reaction for problem-solving.
- Demonstrate great autonomy and proactivity in your work.
- Great attention to detail.
- Outstanding interpersonal and collaborative skills.
