Previsualization Artist - Remote

Overview

DreamWorks Animation is looking for more adventurous dreamers who shoot for the moon. We tell stories about the journeys our unconventional heroes take to make dreams come true. As a growth-minded studio, we pride ourselves on being one of the world's leading producers of high-quality, award-winning, animated films and series, reaching consumers around the globe. We push to feel more, laugh more, and build immersive new worlds.

In Short

• Establish character blocking, camera positioning, and animate camera movement.
• Build an animatic interpretation of the story reel.
• Ensure that the vision of the Director and Art Director are incorporated into the film where possible.
• Work with existing storyboards, recreate and/or enhance story through cinematic layout of shots.
• Collaborate with the Editorial department to incorporate materials and animatic work into the production reel.
• Pre-visualize the look of the film in collaboration with the Art Department.
• Model, surface, and rig pre-visualization and layout models, characters, environments, and effects.
• Optimize assets and scenes for real time interactive playback.
• Active participant at virtual shoots capturing motion capture data.
• Deliver shot data to Final Layout Department that meet the need of production.

Requirements

• 3 years of computer graphics pre-visualization production experience.
• Experience with motion capture based pre-visualization workflow.
• Expertise in programs such as Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Motion Builder, Adobe Photoshop.
• Moderate to advanced modeling, surfacing and rigging skills.
• Moderate to advanced skills in effects animation.

Benefits

• Join a community of artists, technologists, innovators, and creators.
• Opportunity to work on high-quality animated films and series.
• Collaborative work environment.
• Fully remote position.
• Competitive salary range.