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Create expressive 2D animation storyboards for a preschool YouTube series. Translate scripts and story beats into clear visual sequences using strong composition, character acting, poses, staging, camera choices, pacing, and continuity. Incorporate feedback from directors and supervisors, participate in dailies and team discussions, follow production pipeline requirements, maintain consistent quality, and manage schedules and communication with production staff.

Develops complex character effects in Houdini, including hair, fur, cloth, and muscle simulations. Collaborates with modeling, rigging, animation, lighting, production, and leadership teams to integrate effects into high-end television or feature projects. Creates tools and scripts, troubleshoots CFX issues, supports pipelines, meets deadlines, participates in reviews, and maintains production quality. Senior artists may mentor junior team members. Candidates must provide a Houdini-focused demo reel and demonstrate strong physics, dynamics, and procedural animation skills.

Establish CG scene staging and camera positioning for featurette animation, translating storyboards into 3D scenes. Collaborate with supervisors, directors, production, and layout artists to support cinematography, storytelling, continuity, and technical integration. Animate elements and characters for framing and story beats, identify creative or technical issues, contribute to dailies, mentor teammates, and manage shot schedules and communication.

Lead and mentor a 2D animation team for a preschool YouTube series, creating expressive character animation using production rigs and Toon Boom Harmony. Review work, give feedback, communicate Director notes, solve creative and technical challenges, and collaborate across departments to meet animation milestones.

Animate 2D characters and props using Toon Boom Harmony from storyboards and rigs. Deliver expressive character acting, adhere to pipeline workflows, incorporate feedback, collaborate with directors and production, and meet schedule and quality standards.

Lead a storyboard team to translate a web comic and scripts into cinematic 2D storyboards and animatics. Define visual storytelling style, review and give creative feedback, collaborate with directors and producers, balance creative goals with production constraints, and establish scalable storyboard workflows and standards.

Lead the animation vision for an anime-inspired project, setting style and performance standards, guiding the animation team from pre-production to delivery, reviewing work, collaborating with storyboard and production leads, and establishing scalable workflows and quality standards.

The Systems Administrator Lead designs and manages infrastructure services, focusing on systems, security, and virtualization for VFX production. Responsibilities include maintaining reliable environments, acting as a technical lead, and collaborating across teams.

Lead design, development, and maintenance of the studio's core pipeline libraries, CI/CD, package management (Rez), and containerized services. Manage and mentor the Core Pipeline TD team, set engineering standards, collaborate with Production/Systems, integrate DCCs and render infrastructure, and own release, documentation, and training processes to ensure stable, scalable pipeline tooling.