Hasta La Motion!

a) Position: Lead/Senior Animator

Responsibilities

•  Must be able to plan schedules, commit to deliverables and achieve goals within regular milestones and deadlines.
• Ability to work with strict deadlines and to precisely quantify volumes of work.
• Ensure an open communication flow between animation team and other related teams at large.
• Determine the best method of completing tasks that fall within the scope of normal responsibilities.
• Continually refine processes for animation production to increase productivity for the animation team.
• Ability to give and take direction well.

Requirements

• 5+ years or more experience.
• 2+ years as a Lead or Senior Animator preferable.
• Proven Key Framing Knowledge and skillset.
• Must be experienced with layouts and camera staging.
• Should be able to work in a range of styles, from humorous/cartoony to semi-realistic, and can maintain the appropriate style over the course of a project.
• Should have good time management skills.
• Must perform under pressure.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills and ability to manage stressful situations.
• Must have a positive attitude and be a team player.
• Must have worked on at least one international TV show or feature film at a Senior or Lead animator position.

Bonus

• A strong understanding of the fundamentals of traditional 2D animation.
• Acting skills.
• If you love anime, it’s a plus!

b) Position: Lead/Senior Modeling

We are looking for talented and experienced Modeling & Texturing Supervisor who is able to work on shows that need high end characters, background sets and textures.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Scope of work includes both Modeling and Texturing.
• Plan schedules, commit to deliverables and manage modeling team to achieve goals within regular milestones and deadlines.
• Must be able to track tasks throughout a show.
• Ability to work with strict deadlines and to precisely quantify volumes of work.
• Determine the best method of completing tasks that fall within the scope of normal responsibilities.
• Ability to give and take direction well.
• Ability to create high-detail or cartoony models and unwrap UV’s in Maya.
• Paint textures in Photoshop, Mari, Zbrush or Mudbox.
• Follow our studio/production pipeline, workflow and keep scenes clean and organized.
• Prioritize and revise work based on direction from directors.

Must Haves

• At least 5 years of experience with Maya, ZBrush and Photoshop in feature film, games, or similar projects.
• Full understanding of technical character modelling to aid rigging (good topology, edge flow and anatomical proportions).
• A thorough understanding of creating efficient location and prop models for a shot pipeline
  (subdivision, instancing etc).
• Work with a team of modelers and texturers, be responsible for team building and team management.
• Demonstrated team management skills.
• Ability to appreciate things of beauty.
• Motivation to learn, spare no effort.
• Time-management skills to meet the deadlines.
• Good communication skills in English.

We prefer

• Experience with Mari, MudBox, Modo, Maya nHair, Xgen.
• Knowledge of Python (and/or MEL).
• Experience with Shotgun (or other asset tracking systems).
• Experience in high-end cinematic movies.
• Please submit showreel demonstrating their ability to model, wireframe and texture photo- real creatures, characters, props or environments with shading and lighting.

c) Position: Rigging

We are looking for talented and experienced Rigging artists who are able to deliver high calibre deformations and animator friendly rigs.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop friendly rigs using Maya and in-house tools.
• Troubleshoot rig related issues in Maya.
• Achieve high quality deformations.
• Meet deadlines while achieving a high level of quality

Must Haves

• Minimum 4 years of production experience.
• Solid time and project management skills.
• Task Driven, self-motivated, and proactive.
• Good team player with an open mind to share ideas.
• Must be willing to adapt to new rig systems and techniques.
• Solid understanding of basic Maya rigging fundamentals.
• A good understanding of human and animal anatomy.
• Able to communicate (written & verbal) in English.

We prefer

• Basic understanding of MEL scripting is desired, Python is a plus.
• Experience with Hollywood shows and commercials an advantage.

Interested candidate, please send your updated resume and latest demo reel link to  recruit@sa-ppi.com

For more information, please visit our website  www.sa-ppi.com