Description:
We’re looking for 2D Animators to join our team of incredible artists on an exciting project. You will translate each scene from animatic to the final animation by roughing, keying, and animating each shot. You will draw on your knowledge and skill to maintain model, achieve the desired feeling and emotion, while aiming to realise the quality style of the show.
You will be joining a close-knit team of artists so you will be proactive, driven, great at problem-solving, and you will thrive collaborating with different teams within the business.
This is a full-time, specified purpose role with hybrid working arrangements (i.e. a combination of both remote and in-studio working). Our studio is located in Dublin City Centre.
Responsibilities:
- Attend creative, production and management meetings as/when required;
- Attain an understanding of the style and expectations of the show by following the guidance and instructions provided by the production team and animation leads;
- Submit animation to the standard required by the show;
- Ensure any concerns or questions in relation to the scenes and deadlines are communicated in a clear and timely manner to your team lead and supervisors;
- Ensure your assignments, scenes, and retakes are in line to meet the required production schedules;
- Continuously develop your drawing skills and strive to improve those skills with tutorials, life drawing, sketching and general animation research;
- Ensure all animatics provided by the Production Team are reviewed before starting a scene;
- Check all episodic materials are available before starting your assignment to ensure completion of daily/weekly tasks;
- Ensure that the daily planners are accurate and saved in the right location as soon after your assignment has been delivered to you by the Production Team;
- Review your assignment, look out for hook-ups, reuse, and stock essentials;
- Analyse the brief provided by your team lead and clarify any questions or concerns you may have prior starting your assignment;
- Refer to the notes and guidance provided by the Production Team to understand the intent of any given scene;
- Communicate any problems that may arise as early as possible with your team lead;
- Create a rough plan of how you are going to approach your scene with show level and style of animation requirements in mind;
- Use the libraries, reuse, special poses, expression sheet, size relation charts and any reference material to help you work through your scenes;
- Use reference (mirror, photo, stock images) for posing to make sure your resulting animation is clear and readable;
- Do roughs to get a baseline idea of how the shot will play out;
- Key out the characters keeping them on model using good silhouettes and line of action;
- Ensure the produced animation is well timed, has variety, contrast, and personality;
- Check your work for scene length, quality control issues, model, or technical mistakes;
- Follow naming conventions, keep work tidy and within the asset managers guidelines both on the server and ftrack;
- Follow all guidelines issued by the Pipeline team with regard to workflow.