Environment Designer

Job Posting

Title:

Environment Designer Req :

Job Description:

Environment Designers visually explore and collaborate in the creation of story-driven animated worlds and their interior logic through the depiction of design ideas, dramatic story moments, mood/tonal pieces, and prop and vehicle designs that all serve a film’s narrative needs. Artists also prepare technical designs for downstream departments including technical orthographic drawings, breakdowns, and full render texture reference to inform the art direction of downstream departments

• Design inspiring worlds, spaces, and moments based on a director’s vision that convey information and storytelling
• Translate designs into detailed technical drawings and surfacing rendering to support collaboration across downstream departments
• Communicate with downstream departments to clarify requests, provide context, and find solutions
• Authenticate your designs with thoughtful research and inspire through your art
• Collaborate thoughtfully and respond constructively to direction

• Ability to bring unique and interesting solutions to design challenges
• Ability to create cinematic compositions that convey storytelling, creating shots instead of illustrations
• Ability to evoke mood and feeling in your work that enhances the storytelling of your images
• Ability to utilize dynamic relationships of color & value structures to convey specific emotions and story points
• Adaptability to varying film styles and director tastes, reinforcing and furthering the established style as needed
• Adaptability to the different stages within a film (such as development, production, marketing, etc) as well as evolving workflows and tools
• Openness to new approaches, workflows, and tools and risks failure responsibly

• Paintings and environment designs that demonstrate stylistic versatility and a strong understanding of specificity, storytelling, lighting, observation, mood, clarity, staging, color, perspective, and appeal
• Illustrations of narrative moments, character and environment interactions encouraged
• Observational studies

• Proficiency in Photoshop
• Professional experience required, feature animation experience preferred
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Burbank, CA, USA

Date Posted:

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We can’t wait to see the worlds you’ll help us create!

The pay rate for this role in Burbank, California is $60.69 - $71.68 per hour, which follows the pay scale agreed upon in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The base pay actually offered may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits.