Jobs at Flying Bark Productions

The 3D Animator will bring characters to life, enhance storytelling, and meet creative and technical requirements while collaborating with the animation team.

Provides editorial and technical support for animated film and television productions. Responsibilities include managing Avid Media Composer imports and exports, assembling sequences and animatics, tracking dialogue updates, maintaining sound and music libraries, coordinating editorial files across departments, quality-controlling cuts, preparing screening materials, and supporting production schedules. The role requires strong technical workflow knowledge, attention to detail, communication, time management, and collaborative problem-solving.

Supervise and support 2D animators across rigged and traditional pipelines. Review shots, provide creative and technical feedback, maintain animation quality, troubleshoot character rigs, mentor team members, assign scenes, manage workloads, and coordinate with directors and other production departments. The role also involves overseeing offshore animation partners and ensuring work meets style, schedule, performance, and delivery requirements.

Create frame-by-frame or rigged 2D character animation for upcoming productions, meeting creative standards, quotas, deadlines, and technical workflow requirements. Responsibilities include lip sync, key posing, clean in-betweens, storyboard interpretation, revisions, timing charts, layer and node organization, shot tracking, and collaboration with animation supervisors and production teams. The role requires strong storytelling, comic timing, communication, adaptability, and proficiency with Toon Boom Harmony. Remote and Sydney-based opportunities may be available.

The Render Technical Director audits and optimizes high-density animation and VFX scenes, diagnoses render failures, fine-tunes sampling and ray-tracing settings, and profiles CPU, memory, and I/O performance. The role supports Lighting, Surfacing, and FX teams while developing Python and Lua tools for render passes, AOVs, secondary outputs, and denoising. It also involves render-engine troubleshooting, scene-graph optimization, and potentially custom shader development using OSL and C++.

Own global workforce planning across Sydney, Los Angeles, and Madrid for upcoming productions. Develop forecasts, scenario models, capacity insights, and reporting to guide resourcing decisions. Partner with Recruitment, People and Culture, Production, and IT on workforce data, scheduling, systems, automation, and process improvements. Maintain dashboards and models, ensure data integrity, support system implementations, and lead cross-functional projects while translating complex data into actionable insights for senior stakeholders.

Runs character FX and simulations for cloth, hair, rigid bodies, crowds, muscles, and other assets using Maya and nCloth. Troubleshoots simulations, adds secondary motion, cleans and models shots, develops solutions for rigging challenges, and incorporates supervisor and client feedback. Collaborates with VFX supervisors, leads, animators, and other departments to deliver high-quality shots on schedule. The role requires relocation to Sydney and begins in January 2027.

Expression-of-interest opportunity for 2D animation design artists across character, environment, prop, vehicle, colour script, background layout, and background paint disciplines. Artists will create production-ready artwork, replicate established show styles, meet quotas and deadlines, communicate clearly, and collaborate within animation pipelines. Roles range from strong mid-level artists to leads, with Sydney-based, hybrid, and remote opportunities available.

The 3D Animation Lead manages a team of animators, ensuring workflow and communication. Responsibilities include overseeing assignments, mentoring junior artists, providing feedback, and collaborating with various departments to maintain animation quality.