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RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Receive & understand Character Design assignment from Art Director/Design Supervisor.
- Ask appropriate questions to understand & complete the task.
- Review Storyboard to ensure continuity of character designs.
- Complete all character designs.
- Make any changes or revisions and re-submit to Art Director/Design Supervisor for approval.
- Communicate with Design Supervisor & Production Manager regarding status of work and any problems that arise.
- Ensure quality & style of show is achieved.
- Complete work on schedule.
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation is looking for an Asset PA with a basic understanding of the Shotgun interface.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist in the preparation of production materials.
- Organize the production unit’s file cabinet.
- Properly file, label, and arrange correspondence, invoices, video files, folders and all pre- production materials.
- File, organize and assist managers, producers, and coordinators throughout production.
- Assist in the typing of various documents, files, orders, scripts, and research material.
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SUMMARY:
The Casting Administrative Coordinator is responsible for collecting, maintaining, and processing all talent payroll documents and contracts for the Casting Department. This position requires one to work under tight deadlines with many departments in a fast-paced work environment while maintaining confidential information and material.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Processing talent payroll for multiple productions
- Preparing, tracking, and routing talent contracts between the Casting Department and Business and Legal Affairs
- Collecting and maintaining talent authorization paperwork from agencies
- Review and approve all incoming talent invoices from Cast & Crew
- Act as a point of contact for all talent related payment questions
- Ensure talent paperwork is received, complete, and accurate for processing
- Distribute, file, scan, and archive talent documents
- Collect and route minor paperwork between the Casting Department and Business and Legal Affairs
- Track documents to ensure everything is processed in a timely fashion
- Main database with confidential project, talent, and agent information
- Distribute final cast information to Residuals Department.
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Generates prop designs, special effects, lettering, schematics and any other prop-related art that the production may require, ensuring style and quality of show is met.
- Review script for props needed at handout of show.
- Complete all rough, revised and final designs necessary within assigned deadlines.
- Resolve design problems with creative supervisors.
- Ensure all deadlines are met.
- Communicate progress of work to appropriate production staff.
- Ensure all artwork is properly backed up and stored appropriately.
- Ensure all shipping materials are prepared and ready on time.
- Be available for questions until your department’s shipment is complete.
- Additional Responsibilities:
- Assist with special projects.
- If applicable, make special shadow and color indications.
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Work with the Lead Environment Artist to create models for environments, props, and occasionally characters.
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Rig all assets included in the environment and uv unwrap the environment model.
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Candidate required having fundamental knowledge of modeling both organic and hard surface environments and props, Maya’s referencing system, organizing complex hierarchies, creating lo res proxies, and utilizing IK – FK – and Deformer based rigs.
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Aid in the research, development and implementation of methods and techniques.
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Complete tasks within the time allotted.
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SUMMARY:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work with the Lead CG Character Modeler to create models for characters, character blend shapes, and character UV unwraps.
- Create high quality and detailed character assets based on show requirements.
- Includes being flexible to adapt from one modeling style to another.
- Candidate should have a fundamental knowledge of modeling both organic and hard surface characters, create rig friendly topology for the character’s needs, achieving desired aesthetics within the allowed polygon count, and efficiently translate the character from 2D to 3D.
- Aid in the research, development and implementation of methods and techniques.
- Simple knowledge of rigging, cluster creation, simple joint setup etc is a plus.
- Complete tasks within the time allotted.
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SUMMARY:
- Generates background designs, overlays, underlays, shadow and color guides, floor plans and any other background-related art that the production may require, ensuring style and quality of show is met.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Review script for backgrounds needed at handout of show.
- Complete all rough, revised and final designs necessary within assigned deadlines.
- Resolve design problems with creative supervisors.
- Ensure all deadlines are met.
- Communicate progress of work to appropriate production staff.
- Ensure all artwork is properly backed up and saved appropriately.
- Ensure all shipping materials are prepared and ready on time.
- Be available for questions until your department’s shipment is complete.
- If required, generate multiple views of environment and specific elements within it.
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist with special projects.
- If applicable, make special shadow and color indications.
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SUMMARY:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work with each Lead Character Technical Director to create rigs for characters, sets, and props.
- Character Set-up/Rigging/Weighting/Skinning.
- Implementation of new tools and techniques using Mel scripting.
- Create and enforce hierarchy and pipeline solutions.
- In depth knowledge of IK and FK systems is required.
- Great aesthetic eye for skin weights is a must.
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SUMMARY:
- Manages the daily activities of the production.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Communicate with Line Producer daily regarding the status of the department.
- Coordinate the workflow for all supervisors and artists in the CG Department.
- Keep accurate daily output information of all departments, and enforce deadlines.
- Alert LP of potential problems and suggest appropriate solutions.
- Update key production personnel on the status of all areas of production.
- Maintain and distribute weekly production schedule with accurate information to upper management and production staff.
- Run weekly department meetings.
- Supervise Production Coordinator(s) and Production Assistants; assist Line Producer in hiring, performance reviews and terminations for these positions.
- Oversee preparation production materials for shipping.
- Manage schedule to ensure production meets strict deadlines. Some of these duties include:
- Troubleshoot problem.
- Coordinate and supervise vendor studios.
- Coordinate and supervise freelance production staff.
- Assist in the scheduling of key production personnel.
- Schedule production meetings as necessary.
- Additional Responsibilities:
- Assist with ancillary projects; assist LP with special projects.
- Act as primary liaison with vendor studio(s).
- Facilitate communication in a timely manner between production unit and outside studio regarding production issues, questions and materials.
- Assist Post Supervisor in monitoring and facilitating retake process; ensure that lists and notes are communicated in a timely manner; monitor retake budget.
- Draft and coordinate all new hire paperwork for freelancers.
- Update Human Resources monthly on all freelance activity.
- Review and approve weekly time sheets.
- Gather and submit new hire information to Human Resources.
- Coordinate Facilities and IS&T requests.
- Coordinate materials for festivals, awards, etc.
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Helping the VFX Supervisor and the Supervising Producer fulfill their creative vision by maintaining the high quality pipeline and methods for the Nickelodeon CG shows.
- For each episodic segment, assessing storyboard and animatics for CG final render and Compositing do-ability and ensuring that they work in the confines of our production model.
- Prior to episodes ship date, assess the episodes and note lighting “callouts” including any “special Lighting” requirements for each episode in the appropriate tracking software to ensure that vendor studios have the proper direction for the final look of each scene within each episode. They shall also instruct vendor studios by making notes, video notes, paintovers and whatever else necessary to correct inconsistencies, mistakes and/or misdirection on “final” shots that are received from vendor studios as well as communicating with all other CG departments at Nickelodeon Animation Studio to ensure the highest quality shot possible.
- Ensuring that each episode falls within the necessary FX constraints
- Working with the Supervising Producer to help polish (and correct mistakes in) shots during the "retake" phase of production, involving comp work and custom effects.
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To be the custodian of the visual style of the show.
- Review episodic animation during lighting & compositing stage, provide feedback and direction to studios.
- They will learn the established style of the show and be responsible for seeing that style through the entire season.
- Attend meetings early in the process (board pitches, animatic reviews, etc.) to understand the episode’s direction and requirements.
- Call out and note all Lighting/FX/Comp issues in the storyboard (prior to animation beginning).
- Review designs and breakdown decisions to help direct from the front on new or reused assets (instead of noting issues once into production).
- Does not directly supervise any other artists on the crew.
- Reports directly to the CG Sup. Prod. and can make recommendations about other aspects of the production, but ultimately communicates directly with CG SP only.
- Needs to be fluent in Maya, Nuke, and Realflow.
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SUMMARY:
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Texture Painting and Shader Development.
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Must be capable of creating painterly, stylized, procedural, and photorealistic textures in several specified styles.
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The ideal candidate must have a critical eye with his or her own work, be able to follow reference material and concept art, be organized, have the ability to problem solve, be resourceful and creative, and work well with a team.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Ability to texture in several specified styles per CG show.
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Texture paint 3D characters, props, and sets within Maya, Photoshop, and BodyPaint.
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Set up Maya shaders/shader networks and use them to achieve desired looks.
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Review UV’s for texturing when needed.
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work with the Environment Supervisor to create models for environments, props, and occasionally characters.
- Rig all assets included in the environment and uv unwrap the environment model.
- Candidate required having advanced knowledge of modeling both organic and hard surface environments and props, Maya’s referencing system, organizing complex hierarchies, creating lo res proxies, and utilizing IK – FK – and Deformer based rigs.
- Conduct the first approval evaluation of all assets created by team members.
- Create “Build” notes for the designs that satisfy the pipeline, the episode’s needs, and the artist’s needs.
- Work with the Lead Character Modeler and Lead Character TD to make the episode doable within the CG Department’s parameters.
- Complete tasks within the time allotted. Create thorough modeling and rigging guidelines for each set design (built at vendor studio), and review set models when completed.
- Lead team of Environment Artists by enforcing aesthetics, technical quality, and time lines for each assignment.
- Review animatics/designs and give suggestions and/or solutions to the Supervising Producer to make the episode fit within the given parameters.
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SUMMARY:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work with the Lead CG Character Modeler to create models for characters, character blend shapes, and character UV unwraps.
- Create high quality and detailed character assets based on show requirements.
- Includes being flexible to adapt from one modeling style to another.
- Candidate should have a fundamental knowledge of modeling both organic and hard surface characters, create rig friendly topology for the character’s needs, achieving desired aesthetics within the allowed polygon count, and efficiently translate the character from 2D to 3D.
- Aid in the research, development and implementation of methods and techniques.
- Simple knowledge of rigging, cluster creation, simple joint setup etc is a plus.
- Complete tasks within the time allotted.
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SUMMARY:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work with each Lead Artist to create rigs for characters, and complex props.
- Character Set-up/Rigging/Weighting/Skinning.
- Implementation of new tools and techniques using Mel scripting.
- Create and enforce hierarchy and pipeline solutions.
- Work with the Lead Character Modeler and Lead Environment Artist to make the episode doable within the CG
- Department’s parameters.
- Complete tasks within the time allotted.
- Create “Build” notes for the designs that satisfy the pipeline, the episode’s needs, and the artist’s needs.
- In depth knowledge of IK and FK systems is required.
- Great aesthetic eye for skin weights is a must.
- Lead team of character technical directors by enforcing aesthetics, technical quality, and time lines for each assignment.
- Review animatics/designs and give suggestions and/or solutions to the Supervising Producer to make the episode fit within the given parameters.
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SUMMARY:
- Manages the daily activities of the production.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Communicate with Line Producer daily regarding the status of the department.
- Coordinate the workflow for all supervisors and artists in the CG Department.
- Keep accurate daily output information of all departments, and enforce deadlines.
- Alert LP of potential problems and suggest appropriate solutions.
- Update key production personnel on the status of all areas of production.
- Maintain and distribute weekly production schedule with accurate information to upper management and production staff.
- Run weekly department meetings.
- Supervise Production Coordinator(s) and Production Assistants; assist Line Producer in hiring, performance reviews and terminations for these positions.
- Oversee preparation production materials for shipping.
- Manage schedule to ensure production meets strict deadlines. Some of these duties include:
- Troubleshoot problem.
- Coordinate and supervise vendor studios.
- Coordinate and supervise freelance production staff.
- Assist in the scheduling of key production personnel.
- Schedule production meetings as necessary.
- Additional Responsibilities:
- Assist with ancillary projects; assist LP with special projects.
- Act as primary liaison with vendor studio(s).
- Facilitate communication in a timely manner between production unit and outside studio regarding production issues, questions and materials.
- Assist Post Supervisor in monitoring and facilitating retake process; ensure that lists and notes are communicated in a timely manner; monitor retake budget.
- Draft and coordinate all new hire paperwork for freelancers.
- Update Human Resources monthly on all freelance activity.
- Review and approve weekly time sheets.
- Gather and submit new hire information to Human Resources.
- Coordinate Facilities and IS&T requests.
- Coordinate materials for festivals, awards, etc.
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RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Receive & understand Character Design assignment from Art Director/Design Supervisor.
- Ask appropriate questions to understand & complete the task.
- Review Storyboard to ensure continuity of character designs.
- Complete all character designs.
- Make any changes or revisions and re-submit to Art Director/Design Supervisor for approval.
- Communicate with Design Supervisor & Production Manager regarding status of work and any problems that arise.
- Ensure quality & style of show is achieved.
- Complete work on schedule.
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation Studio is looking for A Storyboard Artist!
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Meet with creative supervisors to discuss objectives of storyboard; what is desired or to be achieved.
- Create storyboards by implementing storytelling objectives.
- Follow instructions of creative supervisors.
- Address any problems with creative supervisors; ask necessary questions.
- Communicate progress of work to creative supervisors and to appropriate production staff.
- Ensure quality and style of show is consistently achieved in storyboard work.
- Follow proper document management requirements (i.e., file naming and storage) according to the production’s guidelines.
- Meet all deadlines as determined by Line Producer or Production Manager.
- Attend and contribute to relevant meetings and pitches as needed.
- Maybe be required to pitch Storyboards.
- Ensure all storyboard notes are added.
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for an Asset Coordinator to work on a CG animated sitcom in Unreal Engine. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The Asset Coordinator is responsible for assisting the Asset Manager/TD in coordinating the production of all assets.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintain contact with all vendor studios and ensure that their question are answered and they received needed materials in a timely manner.
- Ensure all props and set pieces are built to scale during the motion capture shoot week.
- Source marketplace assets.
- Have a working knowledge of all assets and their locations.
- Enforce naming conventions for assets through out the pipeline.
- Flag potential problems and delays for the Production Manager and the Line Producer.
- Read and respond to internal and outside studio production e-mails in a timely manner.
- Assist on special projects.
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SUMMARY:
- Manages the daily activities of the production.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Communicate with Line Producer daily regarding the status of the department.
- Coordinate the workflow for all supervisors and artists in the CG Department.
- Keep accurate daily output information of all departments, and enforce deadlines.
- Alert LP of potential problems and suggest appropriate solutions.
- Update key production personnel on the status of all areas of production.
- Maintain and distribute weekly production schedule with accurate information to upper management and production staff.
- Run weekly department meetings.
- Supervise Production Coordinator(s) and Production Assistants; assist Line Producer in hiring, performance reviews and terminations for these positions.
- Oversee preparation production materials for shipping.
- Manage schedule to ensure production meets strict deadlines. Some of these duties include:
- Troubleshoot problem.
- Coordinate and supervise vendor studios.
- Coordinate and supervise freelance production staff.
- Assist in the scheduling of key production personnel.
- Schedule production meetings as necessary.
- Additional Responsibilities:
- Assist with ancillary projects; assist LP with special projects.
- Act as primary liaison with vendor studio(s).
- Facilitate communication in a timely manner between production unit and outside studio regarding production issues, questions and materials.
- Assist Post Supervisor in monitoring and facilitating retake process; ensure that lists and notes are communicated in a timely manner; monitor retake budget.
- Draft and coordinate all new hire paperwork for freelancers.
- Update Human Resources monthly on all freelance activity.
- Review and approve weekly time sheets.
- Gather and submit new hire information to Human Resources.
- Coordinate Facilities and IS&T requests.
- Coordinate materials for festivals, awards, etc.
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REPORTS TO:
- Production Manager
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Coordinating the preparation of pre-production materials for shipping; organizing, labeling, copying and obtaining Approvals.
- Coordinating the processing of material starting with the creation of the EMR through final callouts.
- Delivering required material to the network and to the Animation Director. Organizing and maintaining systems for monitoring production flow of assigned shows.
- Setting up files, keeping a log of start/completion dates of production progress, labeling materials clearly and neatly with all necessary information.
- Confirming shipments to overseas animation studios (via ICS and electronic upload) using proper confirmation forms.
- Tracking the progress of assigned shows and flagging potential problems and delays for the Production Manager and the Line Producer.
- Reading and responding to internal and overseas production faxes and e-mails in a timely manner.
- Completing script and storyboard breakdowns for models, props and background designs.
- Monitoring distribution of Network materials including rough storyboard, EMR, and black and white shipped materials.
- Assisting on special projects for festivals, awards and network promotions.
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for an Unreal Engine Sequencer Engineer to work on a CG animated sitcom. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The UE4 Sequencer Engineer is responsible for establishing workflows for editorial and virtual cameras, building complex level sequences and managing the real-time motion capture sequences in engine.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work with editorial to establish a workflow between live reference footage and CG
- Work with the UE4 Pipeline Engineer to build tools to automate level sequences
- Develop plugins for Virtual Cameras in Unreal Engine
- Create complex level sequences to support requests from creative and technical leads
- Prepare and Manage UE4 Episode Projects for capture days
- Write technical documentation and clearly communicate complex solutions and challenges
- Adapt existing systems to fulfill the projects technical requirements
- Create in engine animation and blocking in sequencer to support editorial
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for an Unreal Engine Pipeline Engineer to work on a CG animated sitcom. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The UE4 Pipeline Engineer is responsible for building tools to optimize workflows and manage data migration between projects and partners
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop and Build tools to improve and optimize workflows during pre-production and production
- Work with partners to ensure all tools integrate into their motion capture pipelines
- Create tools to streamline the editorial process into UE4
- Identify areas that require attention and work with the technical leads to ensure time and resources are properly allocated
- Write technical documentation and clearly communicate complex solutions and challenges
- Adapt existing systems to fulfill the projects technical requirements
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for an Unreal Engine Artist to work on a CG animated sitcom. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The UE4 Artist is responsible for shaders and lighting, environment building, and character retargeting
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Package all assets into a UE4 Project with complete shaders and basic lighting
- Improve and debug shaders to be optimized for Ray Tracing
- Under the supervision of the Art Director, assist in set dressing the environments and tweaking shaders
- Establish a workflow and standard for characters, props, and environments in UE4
- Validate all assets in UE4 prior to each episode
- Work with the Director to ensure sets are following sitcom guidelines for blocking
- Create animation blueprints for character’s secondary rigs
- Create material blueprints for foliage and dynamic materials
- Create physics assets for all characters and ensure they are ready for Motion Capture
- Educate members of the team on Unreal Engine workflows and capabilities
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for a Network Engineer to work on a CG animated sitcom. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Identification, diagnosis, and resolution of software, hardware, and network problems
- Install, configure and manage network infrastructure devices (switches, routers, firewalls, wireless controllers and AP's, SSL VPN, WAN compression, F5 Load Balancers, etc.)
- Maintain production server
- Build high end PCs for production team
- Maintain connection to Motion Capture stage and data in real time
- Manage software and hardware issues as they arise
- Effectively communicate both technical details and summarized impact analysis to Management
- Respond, troubleshoot, identify root cause and remediate issues in a complete, documented and timely manner
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for a Production Coordinator to work on a CG animated sitcom. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The Production Coordinator is responsible for being the know all around each script and it’s breakdowns, manage the physical and virtual props, and provide general assistance to creative and technical leads.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provides general assistance to production employees, artists, coordinators, production managers and producers
- Create script breakdowns and update as revisions are done
- Create a master library of physical props that have been used in the production
- Work with Asset Manager to ensure all props, sets, and characters are accounted for
- Maintain record on all current and final assets
- Assist in the creation of various documents, files, orders, scripts, and research material
- Assist with logistics during the shoot week
- Complete special projects as needed or requested
- Take notes during creative and technical meetings
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for a Production Assistant to work on a CG animated sitcom. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The Production Assistant is responsible for providing support to the creative and technical teams on a daily basis, preparing pre-production materials, and coordinating logistics
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provides general assistance to production employees, artists, coordinators, production managers and producers
- Responsible for basic office duties such as photocopying, faxing, filing, and scheduling
- Assist in the preparation of production materials
- Properly file, label, and arrange correspondence, invoices, recorded media, folders and all pre-production materials
- Assist in the creation of various documents, files, orders, scripts, and research material
- Take notes during creative and technical meetings
- Assist with logistics during the shoot week
- Order and maintain production supplies
- Provide daily support to production leads
- Complete special projects as needed or requested
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for a Character Technical Director to work on a CG animated sitcom in Unreal Engine. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The Character Technical Director oversees the character pipeline, ensuring rigs are ready for motion capture and facial performance.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create high quality animation rigs, systems, setups, and workflows
- Develop character rigging pipeline for real-time production
- Develop new techniques and processes to solve character production challenges
- Works closely with external vendors to ensure rigs are comprehensive and prepared for Motion capture and Facial Performance
- Complete the work assigned at the highest quality possible while staying on schedule
- Maintain an understanding of skeletons, facial animation methodologies, constraints and other Maya tools and systems used for character animation
- Ensure other CG artists are following guidelines and workflows around character rigs
- Create and Update documentation explaining our process and tools
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for a CG Generalist to work on a CG animated sitcom. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine. The CG Generalist is responsible for modeling, rigging, and texturing across characters, props and environments.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ensure all assets are modeled, rigged, & textured for Unreal Engine
- Validate and Finalize character assets from vendor studios
- Work with the Character TD to ensure all rigs are ready for motion capture and facial performance
- Ensure all CG characters and props are one to one with their physical counterpart
- Improve and Add Facial Blendshapes to characters
- Model, Rig, and Texture props to be used in real-time and in environments
- Establish a workflow and standard for characters, props, and environments in UE4
- Validate all assets in UE4 prior to each episode
- Work with production designer to translate set schematics to CG
- Work with UE4 Artists to build sets and make adjustments to marketplace assets as needed
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for an Asset Manager to work on a CG animated sitcom in Unreal Engine. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The Asset Manager is responsible for managing the assets through various iterations, vendors, and teams.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage assets life span from original concept design to CG production
- Works with external vendors to ensure all assets are received and reviewed in a timely manner by creative and technical leads
- Ensures all partners are using the correct version of assets during various stages of production
- Develop and enforce naming conventions for assets through out the pipeline
- Develop new techniques and workflows to help manage assets
- Build Unreal Engine Asset Libraries
- Source marketplace assets and oversee asset procurement
- Creates each episodic UE4 project and ensures all assets for each episode are final
- Manages and Tracks all characters, environments, and props internally and externally
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for an Art Director to work on a CG animated sitcom in Unreal Engine. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The Art Director is responsible for maintain the style of the show while satisfying technical requirements, oversees the design team, and works with the CG team to ensure characters, sets, and props are executing successfully on creative expectations.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate with the Supervising Producer and Directors to discuss creative ambitions and producibility for each episode
- Develop and communicate a clear design vision (including Characters, Sets, Props, FX, Lighting, and Color) that will support the overall creative vision for the story and style of the project
- Participate in design reviews, provide clear notes for revisions, and assist with revisions as needed, both internally and with external vendors
- Provide status updates, troubleshoot, and review potential changes on a regular basis with production staff
- Participate in the talent acquisition process with the Supervising Producer to review portfolios and tests, interview candidates, and provide detailed feedback
- Mentor and support a team of artists and cultivate positive team morale
- Find artistic solutions which balance creative vision with production realities
- Collaborate with Technical artists and leads to develop efficient and productive art pipelines and establish metrics which ensure artistic goals are met within technical performance targets.
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Summary:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for a CG Animation Supervisor to work on a CG animated sitcom in Unreal Engine. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The animation supervisor oversees the real-time animation pipeline - ensuring rigs meet both creative and technical requirements and ensures animation is delivering on creative expectations.
Responsibilities:
- Overseeing the creation of high quality, visually stunning, realistic animation for characters
- Responsible for providing artistic and technical notes to vendor partners
- Work closely with the Art Director and Technical Leads to find the best creative and technical solutions
- Ensure character assets are ready for full body Performance
- Develop workflows to create rigs that are optimized for motion capture
- Ongoing communication with Production regarding the teams’ schedules and deadlines
- Act as a mentor and inspire, motivate and develop the talent of the artists
- Works closely with external vendors to provide direction for both key framed and motion capture animation
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation has an exciting new opportunity for a 2D Designer to work on a CG animated sitcom. We are seeking candidates who are familiar with the CG animation pipeline and Unreal Engine 4. The 2D Designer is responsible for creating character, environment, and prop designs that will be implemented into CG and used for motion capture.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create both loose 2D sketches and detailed renderings, including turnarounds, for 3D artists to implement into working assets
- Create visually stunning, top quality creative work
- Work closely with the Art Director and Concept team to visualize and develop the final look of the characters
- Design characters, props, and environments under the direction of the Creative Leadership of the series, including turns as needed
- Provide draw overs and improvements on marketplace sets for UE4 Artist
- Work with CG Generalists and UE4 Artists to note and improve CG assets
- Create miscellaneous 2D assets as requested from the production team
- Willingness to take feedback and rework material while maintaining a fresh perspective
- Clearly communicate updates and communicate timely concerns to the production team
- Ensure all shipping materials are prepared and ready on time
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SUMMARY:
- Texture Painting, Look Development, and Grooming in Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Xgen, and Maya Redshift.
- Must be capable of creating painterly, stylized, procedural, and photorealistic textures in several specified styles.
- The ideal candidate must have a critical eye with his or her own work, be able to follow reference material and concept art, be organized, have the ability to problem solve, be resourceful and creative, and work well with a team.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Ability to texture in various specified styles depending on CG project.
Create Textures for 3D characters, props, and sets within Substance Painter and Substance Designer.
- Knowledge of Zbrush for use in creation of displacement and normal maps.
- Build Redshift shaders in Maya.
- Review UVs when needed.
- Must be familiar with Grooming. Xgen is preferred.
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REPORTS TO:
- Production Manager
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Coordinating the preparation of pre-production materials for shipping; organizing, labeling, and obtaining approvals.
- Coordinating the processing of material starting with the creation of the EMR through final checking.
- Organizing and maintaining systems for monitoring production flow of assigned shows.
- Setting up files, keeping a log of start/completion dates of production progress, labeling materials clearly and neatly with all necessary information.
- Confirming shipments to overseas animation studios.
- Tracking the progress of assigned shows and flagging potential problems and delays for the Production Manager and the Line Producer.
- Reading and responding to internal and overseas production e-mails in a timely manner.
- Completing script and storyboard breakdowns for models, props and background designs.
- Monitoring distribution of Network materials including rough storyboard, EMR, and black and white shipped materials.
- Tracking all pickup lines given from story department and make sure they are implemented into the final shipping animation.
- Assisting on special projects for festivals, awards and network promotions.
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REPORTS TO:
- Director of Curriculum & Development, and Line Producer
SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation Studio in New York City is seeking a talented, creative STORYBOARD ARTIST to work within the curriculum & development department, with excellent drawing and photoshop skills to work with a top-rated preschool production team. Job entails creating the art to be used in field testing sessions for each episode.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Meet with creative supervisors to discuss objectives of storyboard; what is desired or to be achieved.
- Create storyboards by implementing storytelling objectives.
- Follow instructions of creative supervisors.
- Address any problems with creative supervisors; ask necessary questions.
- Communicate progress of work to creative supervisors and to appropriate production staff.
- Ensure quality and style of show is consistently achieved in storyboard work.
- Follow proper document management requirements (i.e., file naming and storage) according to the production’s guidelines.
- Meet all deadlines as determined by Line Producer or Production Manager.
- Attend and contribute to relevant meetings and pitches as needed.
- Maybe be required to pitch Storyboards.
- Ensure all storyboard notes are added.
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation Studio is looking for a Lead FX Artist skilled, among other things, in Maya Fluids, RealFlow, and Nuke.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design, animate, light and composite high quality FX into completed shots, design and build expression based FX rigs and build and maintain MEL and Python based tools to support the FX pipeline.
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Summary:
- For each episodic segment, assessing scripts and storyboards for CG do ability and ensuring that they work in the confines of our production model, instruct on the filmmaking, continuity, and staging of each segment, make fair notes on vendor studios’ animation, create any layout, key poses, video notes necessary to instruct vendor studios in the completing the segment.
Responsibilities:
- To be the custodian of the Animation style of the show.
- Review episodic animation at all stages of production, provide feedback and direction to animators/studios.
- They will train with the Core Animation team to learn the established style of the show and be responsible for seeing that style through the entire animation process and season.
- Primary teacher of the animation style to all other artists, including Overseas.
- Attend meetings early in the process (board pitches, animatic reviews, etc.) to understand the episode’s direction and requirements prior to animation beginning, to help ensure that vision is achieved in the final product.
- Review designs and breakdown decisions to help direct from the front on new or reused assets (instead of noting issues once into production).
- Have a good technical understanding of models and rigs.
- Test character rigs.
- Create Pose Libraries for episodic characters.
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SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation Studio is looking for a Lighting/Compositing Artist. Extensive knowledge of Maya is required. Strong knowledge of After Effects and Photoshop needed. Nuke knowledge preferred. Lightwave & Harmony experience a plus but not required. Illustration and digital painting skills are a great addition. A good generalist skillset is a big plus. Ideal candidate is approachable and a team player.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lighting, rendering, and compositing from Maya based on concepts sent from clients and directors.
- Digital touch-up, sweetening, and paint to finish composites as final art/illustrations.
- Able to work independently using commercial and proprietary lighting, rendering, and compositing tools.
- Able to switch gears quickly onto multiple projects.
- Assist in developing techniques to render the necessary layers with appropriate compositing software and detailed documentation.
- Take direction from the directors to establish suitable work techniques and lighting tools when needed, as well as macros for 2D and 3D software for other team members with detailed documentation explaining tools and techniques.
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REPORTS TO:
- Executive Producer/Line Producer
SUMMARY:
- Nickelodeon Animation Studio in New York City is looking for a Story Editor for its hit animated series, Blaze and the Monster Machines.
- Oversees and supervises writers who prepare scripts for their series.
- PLEASE NOTE: As this position is supervisory, it is exempt from overtime.
- **Please submit cover letter, resume, and at least 2 writing samples to blaze-jobs@nick.com
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Confers with network, Executive Producer and Line Producer regarding selection of writers and material.
- Supervises writing staff from premise through record draft.
- Assigns staff members to write synopses, treatments, adaptations, scripts, and continuity when working on their series.
- Reviews writers’ work and gives instruction and direction regarding changes, additions, and corrections.
- Rewrites, combines, and polishes draft scripts, as necessary, to prepare scripts for production.
- Writes premises, outlines, scripts and synopses as needed.
- Ensures all script notes are addressed.
- Attends and contributes to meetings, pitches and recording sessions as needed.
- Contributes to and maintains show bible.
- Ensures all deadlines are met.
- Communicates regularly with appropriate production staff (LP, PM, Script Coordinator, etc.) regarding status of work.
- Ensures quality and style of show is achieved in all writing.
- Assists with and/or assigns and supervises special projects.