Jobs at ICON Creative Studio

Lead CG animated productions from planning through final delivery, managing budgets, schedules, staffing, milestones, risks, dependencies, and client relationships. Partner with directors, supervisors, studio leadership, and production teams to align creative goals with resources and technical requirements. Monitor costs and progress, manage scope changes, resolve concerns, improve workflows, and foster an accountable, collaborative production environment.

Create and direct detailed storyboards for animated series, translating scripts into compelling visual narratives. Collaborate with writers, directors, designers, animators, producers, and clients to define visual style, character poses, action, compositions, humor, and emotional beats. Provide artist feedback, refine boards based on reviews, coordinate with production teams, and manage deadlines while maintaining high artistic and storytelling standards.

The Senior Pipeline Technical Director is responsible for designing and maintaining production pipelines, developing tools, troubleshooting issues, and collaborating with teams to enhance workflow efficiency.

Create a variety of show-specific visual effects using Houdini/Mantra, troubleshoot setups, iterate on feedback, coordinate cross-departmental integration, and manage time across multiple pipelines.

As an Intermediate Modeling and Texturing Artist, you'll create high-quality 3D models and textures, ensuring they align with visual styles and technical requirements while collaborating with art and design teams.

The Pipeline TD will support production workflows, troubleshoot technical issues, develop and maintain tools, and automate tasks while collaborating with the team to enhance production efficiency.

Lead visual development for character, environment, and asset design. Collaborate with Art Director and animation teams to define show aesthetics, mentor junior designers, present and iterate concepts, and ensure designs suit production pipelines and schedules.

Design and develop character and environment concepts for episodic and feature CG projects. Collaborate with art directors, animators, and production to ensure cohesive visual storytelling, produce storyboards and visual development, mentor junior artists (senior role), and meet production deadlines while staying current with industry techniques and tools.

As a Junior Designer/Concept Artist, you'll create character designs, environments, and storyboards, collaborating with teams to enhance visual storytelling.

Lead and execute complex FX shots for animation, collaborating with directors, mentoring junior artists, developing reusable procedural rigs/templates, performing R&D, and optimizing FX for performance and render efficiency.