Skydance Animation is seeking a Visual Development Environment Designer to generate environmental designs, drawings, models, floor plans, and set dressing, while ensuring story themes, style, and quality of show is met for our sixth animated feature film.
If you are an artist that enjoys conceptualizing, developing, and finding worlds this is the job for you!
Responsibilities
- Work as part of a team to contribute to the vision for the project
- Brainstorm inventive ideas that support the storytelling; to add depth, humor, emotion and resonance to visual concepts
- Create Environments for project 2D concepts and/or 3D vis dev models
- Generate work in the form of sketches and (drawings, set designs, isometric drawings, and vis dev models)
- Perform research that will inform the design of the work
- Create presentation materials as needed
- Bring creative solutions, receive feedback well, and be able to iterate on creative ideas
- Meet scheduling deadlines
- Proactively communicate production issues/questions/concerns
- Communicate progress of work to the Production Designer and Production staff
- Make any changes or revisions and re-submit to Production Designer for approval
- If applicable, make special shadow and color indications
Requirements
- 3+ years of design experience on commercial film/show
- Knowledge of Blender a HUGE plus
- Sound knowledge of story structure, character development, staging, and pacing
- A comprehensive understanding of both visual storytelling and how an art department functions
- Advanced knowledge of Photoshop
- Ability to create action & humor expressed through drawing
- Ability to work collaboratively, communicate clearly, present work, be a team-player
- Demonstrated sense of composition and story-telling
- Superior ability to represent ideas visually and to suggest alternate concepts
- Skill at expressing verbal descriptions in an artistic way
- Knowledge of anatomy
- Sense of entertainment and humor
- Ability to work with minimal supervision both independently or collaborating within a group
- Sense of humor and resilience in the face of shifting priorities and demands
- Requirement to be, or become, a member in good standing of the Animation Guild (Local 839)
The annual salary range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $2,126.40 – $4,000wk. The salary offered may vary based on the candidate’s location, qualifications, experience and relevant expertise, among other factors. The range indicated is for base salary only and does not reflect the total compensation package, including bonus, benefits, etc.
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What We Do
About Skydance Media
Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, and interactive platforms. Its feature films include Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Annihilation, LIFE, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Star Trek Beyond, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, World War Z, Star Trek Into Darkness, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jack Reacher, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and True Grit. Skydance’s upcoming film releases include Top Gun: Maverick, Gemini Man, The Old Guard, 6 Underground and the nwe untitled Terminator film. In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance Television launched in 2013. Its current slate includes Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie on Netflix, Altered Carbon on Netflix, Jack Ryan on Amazon, and Condor on AT&T Audience Network. Skydance Interactive launched in 2016 to create and publish original and IP-based virtual reality experiences and video games. Skydance Interactive recently debuted its first original title – Archangel, a story-driven VR shooter.
About Skydance Interactive
Skydance Interactive creates and publishes original and IP-based virtual reality games. The division of Skydance Media was launched in 2016 through the acquisition of The Workshop Entertainment. Skydance Interactive’s first VR offering is Archangel, launched on July 18th 2017. Skydance Interactive in 2017 partnered with Skybound Entertainment to develop a number of original virtual reality video games based on the expansive world of The Walking Dead universe. The Walking Dead VR game will be the inaugural co-developed title from both companies. The studio is located in Marina del Rey, CA.
About Animation
In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance’s first three animated features are Luck, Split (working title), and Powerless (working title). Luck, directed by Alessandro Carloni (Kung Fu Panda 3) and written by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger, is a comedy that pulls back the curtain on the millennia-old battle between the organizations of good luck and bad luck that secretly
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