Character Cleanup Artist

Description:

Established in 2000, Boulder Media has become one of Ireland's largest animation studios. Boulder has produced many great shows including Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Amazing World of Gumball, El Tigre, Wander Over Yonder, My Little Pony: Pony Life, DC Super Hero Girls, Transformers Cyberverse, Danger Mouse, Cat Burglar and the Netflix hit feature film – My Little Pony: A New Generation. Combining our passion, expertise and experience, we believe in the power of our creativity and our ability to deliver world-class animated entertainment experiences.

As a Character Clean-Up Artist, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining all character and prop design elements required for an exciting project. You will work as part of the Art/Design department and liaise closely with the Supervising Director, Animation Director and Rigging Lead.

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.

• Clean-up rough character and prop designs and draw additional views or angles where needed;
• Create draw-throughs to add to the rig model pack;
• Draw background characters in Toon Boom Harmony to help populate scenes;
• Clean up roughly drawn characters and create any special pose requests from the animatics;
• Work closely with the Rigging Team to provide additional artwork as needed;
• Add to or create, where necessary, turnaround model sheets, pose sheets, expression sheets, hand charts, head tilts, mouth and eye charts, and props;
• Adhere to the design and style of show;
• Maintain line quality throughout designs;
• Meet all deadlines as assigned/determined by the Production Manager;
• Keep all files and artwork named to the approved naming conventions and archived properly on ftrack and the relevant server;
• Keep design libraries organised and updated as per Production team instructions;
• Adapt techniques in accordance with new developments in the and Rigging teams.