Studio: Scanline VFX
Job Opening: Animation Supervisor
Location: Montreal, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Partner with studio leadership to deliver the highest quality animation
- Be accountable for incorporating a high level of quality in each scene
- Work with animators and cross-department supervisors to identify and solve problems, both technically and artistically
- Liaising with other production team members to ensure production deadlines are met
Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum of 8+ years VFX production as well as leadership experience in Live-Action feature films
- Proven technical and leadership capabilities
- Experience in leading, mentoring and training large teams
- Exceptional organizational skills; understand how to prioritize tasks, and assignments with team skills
- Expert with Nuke and Maya, and 3Ds Max, Photoshop, ZBrush a plus
- Must have a strong sense of animation: acting, staging, posing, weight, timing, storytelling, and staying on model
- Strong understanding of the language of the camera; framing, perspective, lenses, coverage, continuity, camera movement, blocking, etc.
- Possess a strong understanding of the principles of animation, exceptional artistic skills
- Solid animation grounding, preferably action-oriented; previs experience a plus
- Solid camera animation work (laying out shots, staging, using film cameras or on-set experience)
- A good attitude and ability to smoothly change and adapt with the project
- Background or experience in fine arts, which shows a thorough understanding of physical motion, weight, and balance
- Knowledge of human and animal anatomy as well as life drawing skills is desirable
- Ability to debug technical problems and follow up with the team to ensure animation is implemented
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