Studio: Animal Logic
Job Opening: Lead Animator – Netflix Animated Feature Film
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership, direction and allocation of work to the animators within your team
- Establish and maintain an appropriate level of communication with all crew members and ensure they are properly supported and mentored
- When required produce high quality animation in line with the Directors creative vision
- Become proficient with the departments propriety tools
- Understand the processes of adjoining departments and communicate with these departments as needed
- Understand the overall brief and goals of a project and communicates this clearly to each member of the team
- Delegates work responsibly to ensure successful completion of shots across team members of all skill levels
- Drives team reviews and, when appropriate, will offer creative feedback on reviewed shots
- Work with the Animation Supervisor and the production team to prepare bids and pitches as required
- Prioritize and break down a project into organized parts
Qualifications & Skills:
- 10+ years’ Animation experience in feature animation, VFX and/or animated television
- Proven leadership experience within feature animation or VFX
- Proven ability to produce feature film quality character animation in a range of styles demonstrated through past project work and/or reel/portfolio
- A deep knowledge of animation techniques and a proficiency in Maya, within a feature film animation pipeline preferred
- Deep understanding of traditional animation techniques and the principles of character performance such as posing, staging, timing, acting and storytelling techniques
- A deep understanding of anatomy, movement and basic real world physics and their application for animation
- Have an “eye” for the nuances of a believable action
- Understand department pipelines including all assets and tools, and their purpose
- A knowledge of rigging and pipeline to help direct any technical changes
- Recognised post-secondary qualification in animation, film or related field preferable
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills working with production and other departments as required
- Ability to effectively work, communicate and provide feedback with all personality types
- Have the ability to listen and be open to all feedback given and apply this to shots moving forward; anticipating the supervisors/ directors preference in accordance to the style of the project
- Enthusiasm, positivity, initiative and talent coupled with an understanding for taking direction and performing tasks to the individual’s best abilities
- Be detail orientated, balanced with a strong technical understand to quality control each shot in a sequence
- Ability to multitask, prioritise and balance workloads to achieve deadlines within a team environment
- Open to new workflows and tool sets
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, visit https://boards.greenhouse.io/animallogic/jobs/3458527