AnimationBell

Senior Modeler Job

Job Profile

• Work with creative and technical leads to create character and set for the production
• Fundamental knowledge of modeling both organic and non-organic characters and sets
• Attention to detail and observation skills
• Work closely with other disciplines to determinate character technical specifications
• Handle technical aspects of character and sets creation such as pipeline concerns, assets built with optimum efficiency and asset integration

Experience/Qualifications required

• Proficiency in Maya
• A good sense of form, scale and proportion
• Ability to work with z-brush desired
• Attention to high quality anatomical details
• Experience in creating blend shapes/morph targets
• Total years of industry experience: 4-5
• Years of experience as Senior Modeler: 2-3

Senior Surfacing Artist

Job Profile

• Work with creative and technical leads to surface character and set for the production
• Excellent understanding of efficient texturing processes
• Work with other modelers, Riggers and other CG artists to create assets and all dependencies
• Photorealistic texturing for characters and assets
• Attention to detail and observation skills

Experience/Qualification required

• Proficiency in Maya
• In-depth knowledge of occlusion, shadow, reflection, hdri, normal,specular, bump, displacement etc
• Total years of industry experience: 4-5
• Years of experience as Surfacing artist: 2-3

Skills required

• Ability to work collaboratively
• Good communication skills
• Excellent Photoshop skills
• Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Senior Rigging Artist

Job Profile

• Set-up and rigging of character models
• Knowledge of animation sharing and motion capture transfer between character rigs
• Design user interfaces and controls for character and facial animation systems (bone and blend shape driven)
• Work with animators to design, create and maintain animation rigs to characters that are clean, efficient and animation friendly

Experience/Qualifications required

• Proficiency in Maya
• Excellent knowledge of skeletal and deformation system
• Excellent understanding of anatomy and motion
• Total years of industry experience: 5-7
• Years of experience as Senior Rigger: 2-3

Skills required

• Ability to work collaboratively
• Proficiency in muscle deformation system
• Having knowledge of MEL scripting will be an added advantage
• Good communication skills
• Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Senior 3D Animator

Job Profile

• In-depth knowledge of classic animation principles ( staging, timing, anticipation, follow through etc)
• Responsible for driving the animation on schedule by balancing artistic and productivity requirements in tandem with production management

Experience/Qualification required

• Excellent experience and knowledge of Maya
• Must have an extremely creative and critical eye for guiding the quality animation
• Total years of industry experience: 4-5
• Years of experience as Senior Animator: 2-3

Skills required

• Ability to work collaboratively
• Good communication skills
• Proven storytelling skills
• Ability to use acting skills
• Well versed in the principles of animation
• Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Senior 2D Animator

Job Profile

• In-depth knowledge of classic animation principles ( staging, timing, anticipation, follow through etc)
• Superior conceptual art skills
• Ability to rapidly illustrate concepts based on verbal and written descriptions
• In-depth knowledge of Photoshop
• Strong traditional art skills
• Self-motivated with a strong work ethic

Experience/Qualifications required

• Experience in both 2D and 3D mediums and asset
• Must have an extremely creative and critical eye for guiding the quality of animation
• Total years of industry experience: 4-5
• Years of experience as Senior Animator: 2-3

Skills required

• Ability to work collaboratively
• Good communication skills
• Proven storytelling skills
• Ability to use acting skills
• Well versed in the principles of animation
• Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Senior Finishing Artist

(lighting, rendering & compositing) Job Profile

• Responsible for final 3D scene assembly and rendering of elements required to complete shots
• Optimize and troubleshoot lighting, rendering and compositing problems in a fast paced environment
• Will build and maintain the suite of lighting tools

Experience/Qualification required

• Proficiency in Maya
• Experience in shot lighting and rendering
• Should posses a high level of lighting, rendering and compositing skills
• Separation of scene objects for external composition
• Total years of industry experience: 5-7
• Years of experience as Senior Finishing Artist: 2-3

Skills required

• Ability to work collaboratively
• Good communication skills
• Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Submit your resume at http://snippleanimation.com/jobs.html

Production Manager

Job Profile

• Manage the day-to-day operation of the production including crew schedule, production scheduling, tracking and budgeting of man weeks
• Responsible for ensuring the production goals, quotas and schedule parameters are projected, analyzed and rearranged as required
• The Production Manager may manage the Assistant Production Managers and/or Production Coordinators( if applicable) to maintain the proper amount of resources throughout the production’s various departments
• Work with the Production Accountant to monitor production staff turnout and approve production staff requested for time off ( if applicable)

Experience/Qualifications required

• Experience in both form of animation, traditional 2D and 3D animation production experience
• Proficient in MS Office suites including Excel and Word
• Animation related scheduling and budgeting
• Prepare and distribute weekly production reports to all applicable people
• Total years of industry experience: 5-7
• Years of experience as Production Manager: 3-4

Skills required

• Work with Producer to define roles and a communication plan for the production team
• Indentify production issues and proactively loopback this information to production
• Help to achieve and balance creative and operational goals of the project
• Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Submit your resume at http://snippleanimation.com/jobs.html