Senior Lighting Artist lighting environments and optimizing post - process effects for Piranha Games, an action - game studio behind MechWarrior. Collaborating across art and design teams.
About the role
- Senior Layout Artist staging CG animation scenes and crafting cinematography for Bardel Entertainment’s featurette productions. Translating storyboards into 3D sequences while supporting visual storytelling and production workflows.
Responsibilities
- Establish staging and camera positioning of scenes in a CG environment
- Collaborate with the Layout Supervisor to align cinematography with the director’s vision
- Interpret storyboards into 3D, offering solutions and pitching ideas to enhance the visual story
- Identify storytelling, staging, or technical issues early and propose effective solutions
- Take ownership of challenging shots and sequences, working independently while knowing when to seek direction
- Animate elements and characters for framing and story beats
- Collaborate with leadership, production, and team members to solve problems and share insights
- Engage in dailies, rounds, and team discussions to contribute to creative and technical improvements
- Adhere to pipeline workflows and technical requirements for seamless production integration
- Serve as a resource for other Layout Artists, sharing knowledge, techniques, and best practices
- Maintain consistent quality while meeting production needs
- Manage time effectively and work with production to stay on schedule
- Keep the team and production staff informed about progress, challenges, and solutions
Requirements
- Previous production experience as a Senior Layout Artist (or similar) in featurette/feature (long-form) animation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively communicate solutions, share knowledge, and incorporate feedback
- Strong understanding of 3D space, cameras, transforms, animation, and scene organization
- Understanding of cinematography principles including lens choice, focal length, perspective, depth, composition, camera motivation, and screen direction
- Ability to make thoughtful cinematographic choices that support character, emotion, pacing, and storytelling
- Maintain continuity of screen direction, eyelines, spatial relationships, camera language, and character geography across sequences
- Experience with editing software
- Strong time management skills
- Portfolio demonstrating varied sequences with strong cinematography, staging, camera placement, pacing, continuity, and visual storytelling
- Portfolio demonstrating strong camera animation skills, including motivated camera movement, dynamic framing, and purposeful composition
- Portfolio demonstrating ability to translate 2D storyboards, animatics, script pages, or director pitches into effective 3D scenes
- Portfolio demonstrating creative problem-solving and independent staging and camera decisions
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Extended Health and Wellness from day 1
- RRSP matching
- Hybrid work environment
- Choice to work remotely, balanced with intentional in-person time for collaboration, creativity, and team building
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