- Manage receipt, organization, tracking, distribution, duplication, and delivery of all Post Production related materials as directed by the Post Supervisor, Post Manager, or Line Producer. - Maintain databases and spreadsheets to track retakes and other materials for overseas studios, handling/dubbing/distributing materials for sign off as well as for final delivery - Assist the Post Production Supervisor/Manager in any way necessary to maintain the workflow of the Post Production process. - Work on multiple shows but for multiple Post Supervisors/Managers, requiring the ability to change gears and work in different ways and with different personalities. - Sit in on meetings where they will interact with the creators/directors of the shows - Understand relationships and how to interact properly within protocol is critical. - Draft communications to or speak with Network Executives and Overseas Studios

Nick Animation is looking for a Production Coordinator.  We are creating first rate animation for all ages from pre-school through big kids with exciting opportunities across our many platforms including shorts, current series and movies.  Essential Responsibilities: - Creates and manages day-to-day data tracking, departmental updates - Assists Production Supervisor with maintaining deadlines, ensuring departmental productivity goals are consistently met. - Understands the department and works with Supervisor to maintain the department schedule. - Ensures pipeline procedures are followed, and workflow is as seamless as possible from one department to the next. - Manages the departmental meetings and calendar. - Performs artist rounds and check-ins to determine the status of the work in the department. - Able to communicate effectively with artists regarding timelines. - Assists with the set up for and on-boarding of new artists. - Handles requests made by crewmembers, Directors, Department Head, Production Management and Production Supervisor. - Takes notes during reviews, approvals and distributes information to the department afterwards as well as follows up on action items. - Effectively communicates with the crew via email, one-on-one meetings and during crew meetings. - Stays abreast of issues on the floor, anticipates potential issues and elevates information appropriately to Production Supervisor. - Able to pull up shots and models and manages technical issues during reviews and approvals. Learns the necessary computer programs and network directory system. - Preps for reviews by building the agenda, checking the attendees, room set up. - Understands the pipeline and where the department fits in. Has a basic knowledge of tools being used by artists in the department. - Attend production meetings and provides departmental updates. - Contributes information for department and production evaluations as required. - Supports studio and production directives. - May coordinate departmental crew meetings. Reports to: - Production Manager

Reports to: Production Supervisor Essential Job Responsibilities: - Creates and Manages day-to-day data tracking, departmental updates - Assists Production Supervisor with maintaining quotas, deadlines & inventory, ensuring departmental productivity goals are consistently met. - Understands the department and works with Supervisor to maintain the department schedule. - Ensures procedures are followed to facilitate that inventory workflow is as seemless as possible from one department to the next. - Manages the departmental meetings and calendar. - Knows the status of inventory in the department (workable / non-workable). - Performs artist rounds and check-ins to determine the status of the work in the department. - Able to communicate effectively with artists regarding timelines. - Assists with the set up for and on-boarding of new artists. - Handles requests made by crewmembers, Directors, Department Head, Production Management and Production Supervisor. - Takes notes during rounds, approvals and distributes information to the department afterwards as well as follows up on action items. - Effectively communicates with the crew via email, one-on-one meetings and during crew meetings. - Stays abreast of issues on the floor, anticipates potential issues and elevates information appropriately to Production Supervisor. - Able to pull up shots and modelsand manages technical issues during rounds and approvals. Learns the necessary computer programs and network directory system. - Preps for reviews by building the agenda, checking the attendees, room set up. - Understands the pipeline and where department fits in. Has a basic knowledge of tools being used by artists in the department. - May attend production meetings and provides departmental updates. - Contributes information for department and production evaluations as required. - Supports studio and production directives. - May coordinate departmental crew meetings, events and parties. - May coordinate travel for leadership.

Our open Senior Counsel, Business and Legal Affairs will provide day-to-day business and legal affairs services, primarily for the Nickelodeon Animation studio, with a focus on original animation development and production. The role will balance a heavy volume of matters relating to both “in-house” and third party productions. Primary duties will include the following: - Draft and negotiate, with minimal supervision, a high volume of development and production agreements, primarily for animated projects, including development agreements, production services agreements, producer agreements, writer agreements, director agreements, vendor agreements, license agreements and rights acquisition agreements. - Provide advice for productions and work with a broad range of departments (Production Management, Labor & Employment/Production Risk Team, Risk Management, Litigation, Music & Media Licensing and Pre-Broadcast Content Review) to implement production legal policies and procedures. - Advise various departments for the networks (Programming, Production, Marketing and Promotion, Rights Management, etc.) in connection with complex BALA matters. - Review and analyze chain of title and other rights issues. - Review scripts and programming for clearances and potential legal risks. - Develop and craft deal parameters and templates and forms. - Partner with key managers, agencies and attorneys in the entertainment community.

- Help manage the network storage, production asset management systems and file deliveries for animated productions at Nickelodeon. - Work directly with production teams to ensure that all assets from each episode are accurately delivered to their designated archive solution and then removed from production storage locations. - Assist with overall archive planning and execution with Nick Archive & Library team, Viacom storage and production teams. - Assist with media deliveries via Signiant MediaExchange, MediaShuttle, OpenText, VMS and MediaSilo. - Work with GMO & Nick Production and Post Production to verify that final deliveries are accurately ingested in VMS, OpenText, Viacom Music Library, etc. – the accurate archival location for each type of asset. - Follow-up with Production and Post Production to ensure that delivered assets are accurately deleted from Production storage - Integrate solutions and workflows with other PPO teams across Viacom Media Networks - Collaborate with editors, production teams, recording studio, engineers, post production management, archive and animation technology teams daily.

Reports to: Executive Producer (creative) Line Producer and VP/General Manager (administrative) Summary: - Works with Executive Producer, Line Producer and CG Supervisor in overseeing all aspects of development, pre-production, overseas production and post-production. - The Supervising Producer will with work on level with the CG Supervisor to determine the pipeline and working methodologies during the development and pre-build stages of shows. - Duties include giving upper level input regarding artist management and resource planning. Responsible for helping develop the creative vision with the CG Supervisor by having an oversight of the entire production; ensuring the flow of communication and the establishment of an effective workflow so that the production is delivered on time and on budget. Partnering with the CG Supervisor, ensuring the translating of the production’s art direction into modeling and rigging, both creatively and technically. Responsibilities: - Communicate to Executive Producer, VP/General Manager, Line Producer and other appropriate production staff regarding the status of work and any problems that may arise. - Ensure that the desired quality and style of show is being achieved within the parameters of the show’s network-approved schedule and budget. - Attend and contribute to all relevant production meetings. - Assist with special projects as necessary. This could include but is not limited to main title, title cards, press art, style guide, tool kit and any network requests. - Work with the Line Producer, CG Supervisor and appropriate production members to determine the most efficient way to expedite the production of the show, both internally and at vendor studios. - Highlight cost implications of requests or changes in a timely manner. Production: - Oversee and assess the technical and aesthetic content of the script from premise to final draft to ensure it stays within the CG scope and inform Executive Producer, VP/General Manager, Line Producer of any concern. - Contribute significantly to casting, production design and artistic staffing. - Oversee the creation of detailed main model and episodic packs, including a minimum of expressions, character construction, mouth charts, character turnarounds, props main backgrounds. - Attend voice recordings as required. - Oversees storyboard directors, storyboard artists and animatic editors’ work to ensure quality and style of show is met. Also presents possible solutions to storyboard and animatic schedule problems. - Thoroughly review storyboards for timing and shipping and oversee revisions as necessary. - Ensures all notes on storyboards, animatics and models are accurately addressed and within the CG scope. - Review animatics at all stages in a timely manner, giving notes, guidance and revisions when necessary. - Ensure all aspects of animation direction/timing are completed on schedule and in the style of the show. - Communicate regularly with overseas studio regarding status of work. - Review animation, providing notes/guidance to overseas studio in a timely fashion. - Ensure overseas studio consistently adheres to quality and style of show. - May require a visit to the overseas studio to review work being done on premises Post Production: - Overseas initial assembly of picture. - Attend and contribute to initial picture edit and subsequent edits. - Call, review and approve retakes within parameters of the show’s retake allowance. - Ensure that all creative retake materials are completed and sent to overseas studio in a timely fashion. - Ensure that all retakes are cut into final picture upon return from overseas studio. - If necessary, attend ADR recordings to ensure character continuity. - Attend and contribute to music and sound effects spotting, preview and final mix. - Attend color correction sessions.

Position Summary: - Works with Production Manager and/or Associate Producer to meet scheduling and budget requirements for their department. Updates their department’s schedule regularly to work with the ever changing needs of the production. Understands and reports on how changes may impact the budget, schedule and potential overtime for their department - Participates in studio initiatives such as the development and deployment of new technologies - Looks ahead to ensure that weekly quotas, department milestones & inventory expectations are met - Strategizes with Department Head, upper management and other Production Supervisors to resolve productivity and/or inventory issues - Facilitates communication as appropriate in a timely manner - Solicit opinion and support an open and safe feedback environment. Essential Job Responsibilities: - Build and maintain department and project schedules - Collaborates with Department Head to ensure the complexity of work is consistent with department budget and schedule. Strategizes with Department Head and upper management on how to resolve any complexity overages. - Provide management support, measure trends against plan, highlight concerns, acknowledge accomplishments, provide risk assessment, and recommend solution options when necessary - Partner with Department Head and Associate Producer to manage bidding process of initiatives and offer options to ensure complexity is managed within schedule and budget parameters - Promote cross-studio collaboration and communication. - Develops and manages internal department schedules and staffing requirements. - Creates and maintains reports that clearly illustrate department and individual artist productivity. - Collaborates with Dept Head to cast assignments and issue deadlines to artists. - Performs walk-arounds to check in with the crew and arranges video check-ins with freelance artists. - Has a basic knowledge of the tools being used by artists in the department. - Attends Director Approvals and helps to communicate agenda, drive this meeting, and establish next steps. - Primary production person within department, supervises and mentors Production Coordinators and Production Assistants for that dept. - May be involved in the interviewing, hiring process and deal negotiations.

REPORTS TO: Line Producer   SUMMARY: - A timing director follows directions provided to complete clearly the digital exposure sheets. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Thoroughly review entire episode to ensure continuity. - Follow directions which may include slugging storyboard and/or animatic - Lip assignment - Redlining digital x-sheets - Implement relevant notes. - Communicate to appropriate key production personnel the status of work and any problems that may arise; suggest appropriate solutions to the problems. - Work closely with checkers to ensure all appropriate materials are complete and correct. - Attend final checking meetings. - Help with timing revisions for retakes; assist with creative retakes. - Meet deadlines; time required amount of footage per week. - Oversee completion of storyboard revisions. - When needed, assist with EMRs and animatics. - When needed, generate mouth charts. - Ensure desired quality and style of show is met. - Assist with special projects.

As an Attorney, do you love working within Animation? If so, our SVP, Business and Legal Affairs opening at Nickelodeon could be an ideal fit! You will serve principally as a senior business and legal affairs executive for animated feature films and animated series content for Nickelodeon Animation Studios. This fantastic position will be located in Burbank, CA. - Work as a senior member of the team of BALA lawyers, contract managers and assistants based in Burbank who support Nick Animation Studios development and production for animated feature films and series. - Negotiate, structure and draft a high volume of complex, high-profile creator/EP deals, co-productions, overall deals, and services deals. - Provide high level, strategic business and legal affairs guidance and support to the senior Nickelodeon animated development and production team. - Work cross-functionally with a broad range of departments (Nickelodeon talent department, Labor & Employment Team, Production Management and Litigation) to implement production legal policies and procedures. - Advise various departments for the network (Programming, Production, Marketing and Promotion, Rights Management, etc.) in connection with complex business and legal matters. - Develop and build deal structures, parameters and templates and forms. - Grow and manage relationships with key managers, agencies and attorneys in the entertainment community.

Summary: Nickelodeon Animation Studio is looking for a Lighting/Compositing Artist. 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.

Job Type: Project Based Employment Description: Nickelodeon's Nick Jr., the #1 preschool brand, seeks an Animator for Nickelodeon Digital, Preschool Division. The Designer will report to the Director of Animation, and be responsible for helping to develop new styles, as well as replicate existing ones. Responsibilities include: - Designer work from concept through final delivery. - Helping to establish new styles for emerging content. - Building new assets for existing styles and properties. - Designing a wide array of concepts including characters/environments/logo’s. - Working alongside UI expert to ensure visual clarity. - Working quickly. - Partner with Creative Producers to maintain creative excellence and feasibility that uphold and enhance the brand. - Be extremely detail-oriented, organized and thorough, able and willing to refine work to a high degree of polish.

Job Type: Project Based Employment   Description Noggin from Nick Jr. is a leading interactive learning service for families with young kids. We help children develop skills, knowledge and passions through play with the characters they love. We also give parents important tools to help their kids thrive. A multi-platform direct-to-consumer offering, Noggin reaches families in the domestic market through standalone mobile apps, connected TV apps, and add-on channels. The Play-Along Video (“PAV”) team is one of several groups producing content for the Noggin app. The PAV team focuses on learning-led interactive media. All content produced by this group is guided by Noggin’s curriculum framework.    We are building a team of highly motivated, diverse and capable individuals who are eager to work in a startup-like environment within a large media company. We need innovators and self-starters who are passionate about playful learning and comfortable working in a fast-paced, creative and innovative organization. What We Need in a Play Designer As a Play Designer, you are inventively creative. You love coming up with novel ideas for interactive media and know how best to shape a kid-centric experience that is simple, playful, and engaging. You consider the entire user experience. You consistently seek ways to spark a child’s imagination and support development of a creative mindset.   Responsibilities include - Produce exciting interactive learning-based content for kids that aligns with business objectives from development to completion. - Create and write concept briefs, interactive design documents, logic flow charts and wireframes, logic scripts, and dialogue scripts - Work closely with the team to ideate and problem-solve interactive experiences that may require a specific animation or authoring solution - Attend talent audio recording sessions and maintain audio library - Review design, animation, audio, and all builds (prototypes, alpha-through-delivery) - Work with the team to track bugs and feature requests in JIRA while clearly communicating updates and properly escalating concerns - Work closely with partner teams (ie. Consumer Insights, Learning Team) to ensure content is engaging, highly usable, and effective - Research popular kid-based apps and products including digital games and learning programs and serving as a team expert in industry trends and competitive products

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.

- Receive and understand Color Key assignment from Art Director.   - Ask appropriate questions to understand & complete the task.   - Review storyboard to ensure continuity of color key models.   - Complete all Color Key models.  - Make any changes or revisions and re-submit to Art Director for approval.   - Communicate with Supervisor and Production Coordinator regarding status of work and any problems that arise.  - Ensure quality & style of show is achieved.  - Complete work on schedule.

- 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.

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.

Summary: Nickelodeon Animation Studio is looking for an Art Director to lead the designers and painters on one of its animated CG Feature. Responsibilities: - Create and maintain the style of the Feature. - Lead and direct a team of designers to accomplish that end, according to the production schedule. - Review storyboards for all visual elements, working in conjunction with the Storyboard Supervisor. - Oversee creation and maintenance of model packs and style guides, including but not limited to expressions, character construction, mouth charts, character turnarounds, props and main backgrounds. - Oversee workflow to ensure all deadlines are met. - Assist with the generation of creative retake materials. - Communicate appropriate creative notes to overseas studio. - With LP’s prior approval, assign any necessary overflow design or color work to freelance artists and supervise artists’ work. - Create rough and clean designs and color as necessary to ensure deadlines are met. - Liaise with Network, Executive Producer and Line Producer to manage the creation of any special artwork or materials needed for press art, on-air promotions or any other uses to ensure the style of the show is maintained. - Guide artists through the design process and communicate any special needs. Rough Design: - Break down script and review design lists with artists and production staff to generate rough character, prop and background designs for storyboard artists to use. - Assign designs to specific artists. - Communicate any special design needs or directives to the artists and appropriate production staff. - Review completed designs with artists. - Communicate and supervise any needed changes. - Meet regularly with appropriate production staff to communicate progress of department. - Communicate and manage schedules, deadlines and priorities – and any changes to same -- to the design team/artists. - Review completed designs with appropriate creative supervisors and ensure any further revisions are implemented. Clean-up: - Direct clean-up process with artists, including monitoring schedule, deadlines and priorities. - Review clean designs and layouts with appropriate creative supervisors and oversee any revisions or changes, as needed. Color: - Oversee color stylists and BG painters and communicate creative directives of the show, including special needs, such as lighting requirements, stylistic concerns and/or special color/palette needs. Review color models and BGs. - Communicate and supervise any needed changes. - If necessary, assist with revisions. - Attend color correction sessions, as available.

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 accurate 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 meetings and pitches as needed. - Maybe be required to pitch Storyboards. - Ensure all storyboard notes are added.

Summary: Oversee in-house and freelance storyboard artists to ensure the quality and the style of the show is maintained. Responsibilities: - Regularly meet with Storyboard Artists and Storyboard Revisionists to thoroughly review and revise storyboards. - Ensure desired quality and style of show is met. - Oversee implementation of Executive Producer and Standards’ notes into storyboards. - Communicate with Executive producer and line producer as to the status of work progress and any problems that may arise. - Answer questions from Storyboard Artists and Revisionists during storyboarding and revision process. - Answer questions from Animation Directors regarding storyboards. - Answer questions from production Staff regarding organization of designs from storyboards. - When time allows, sit in on script meetings to offer feedback from a storyboarding perspective.

SUMMARY: - Nickelodeon Animation Studio is searching for a line producer for an animated series. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Create and supervise the overall production schedule from pre-production through final delivery.  - Revising or adjusting schedule to ensure final delivery to client. - Disseminating schedule information to all production personnel and ancillary departments.  - Tracking production progress and updating production schedule on ongoing basis.  - Creating and maintaining, with upper management production budget. Liaison with Accountant for budgetary information on production. Liaison with overseas production to ensure quality and timely delivery. - Responsible for communication between production unit and overseas studio.  - Gives feedback with upper management in setting deals with overseas studio.  - Negotiates overseas deals.  - Negotiates talent contracts.