Stellar Creative Lab Previs​/3D Layout Lead

At Stellar Creative Lab
, our foundational mission is to cultivate an exceptional studio environment where professionals genuinely thrive, collaborate, and feel valued. Production environments naturally experience cyclical shifts, breakthroughs, and demanding milestones; we navigate these inevitable dynamics as a highly synchronized, supportive, and interconnected team.

Stellar Creative Lab deliberately reject production models that isolate artists. Instead, our studio culture is anchored in transparency, open communication, creative integrity, and mutual professional respect. We believe that technical mastery combined with an ego-free, collaborative spirit provides the ultimate framework for creative magic.

Operational Details
Position Information

Company Stellar Creative Lab

Location Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Flexible Hybrid Workspace)

Employment Type Full-Time

Experience Level Experienced / Senior Lead (5+ years experience, 1–2 years in leadership)

Project Assignment Premium Streaming Series for Marvel Animation

Compensation Range $95,000 CAD – $110,000 CAD per annum (Commensurate with experience)

Core Software Toolsets Autodesk Maya & Flow Production Tracking (formerly Shot Grid)

Hiring Priority British Columbia Residents, Canadian Citizens, & Permanent Residents

Stellar Creative Lab is strategically expanding its production leadership pipeline. We are seeking a supportive, highly creative, and vision-driven Previs/Layout Lead to guide our camera and staging team on an upcoming, high-profile premium streaming series for Marvel Animation
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In this role, you will effectively serve as the practical, hands‑on head of cinematography within our 3D digital world. Your primary responsibility is to lead your team in translating traditional 2D storyboards into a dynamic 3D digital space, ensuring that every sequence fundamentally supports the overarching narrative, thematic tone, and character arcs.

This leadership discipline extends far beyond simple camera review; it requires coaching your artists to make sophisticated, deliberate creative choices regarding framing, focal lengths, camera movement, and character blocking to establish an impeccable cinematic flow that sets downstream departments up for absolute success.

If you are an empathetic mentor who loves guiding artists, finding practical solutions to staging roadblocks, and keeping your crew organized under tight deadlines, we want you at the helm.

As a Previs/Layout Lead at Stellar, your contributions will directly shape the visual rhythm and narrative clarity of the series while fostering a healthy team dynamic. Your day‑to‑day operations will center around three core functional areas:

• Process Oversight: Oversee the entire layout and previs production pipeline, ensuring all camera work, lensing, and staging perfectly achieve the creative vision established by the Director and Previs/Layout Supervisor.
• High-Profile Asset Execution: Take a direct, hands‑on approach to lensing, framing, and blocking the most highly complex, action‑heavy, or deeply emotional cinematic sequences on the project.
• Compositional Standards: Establish and maintain departmental standards for character posing, ensuring composition considerations are refined enough to allow for highly accurate sequence timing across the board.
• Training & Development: Organize, manage, and provide ongoing technical training and artistic guidance to the camera and staging team.
• Empathetic Management: Act as a supportive, approachable leader. Keep communication clear, direct, and focused on solutions, ensuring your artists feel heard, valued, and respected even when production deadlines are compressed.
• Balanced Advocacy: Serve as a motivational force who can realistically balance the rigid demands of the production schedule with the mental well‑being and daily needs of your crew.
• Editorial Alignment: Work in close partnership with the editorial department to ensure that all 3D layouts, shot durations, and cuts flow exactly as intended, helping your team gracefully adapt to pacing or structural changes.
• Animation Synchronization: Part…