Character Sculptor, Adult Series; On-Site

Company Overview

ICON Creative Studio is Canada’s largest independently owned animation entertainment company, located in the historic Gastown district of Vancouver, BC. Our talented team includes specialists across the entire animation pipeline, working alongside creative and management professionals to deliver outstanding animated content. Known for our commitment to quality, efficiency, and timely deliveries, ICON has partnered with distributors, broadcasters, and leading streaming platforms worldwide to create and produce noteworthy, impactful projects.

We operate from a holistic philosophy, leveraging the unique skill sets of our team members to maximize production efficiency while maintaining an optimal balance of creativity and quality on-screen.

• Collaborate on top-tier feature and episodic CG franchises for major streaming platforms, including Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Amazon, Peacock, and Paramount+.
• Be part of a diverse team of artists from around the globe who have joined us here in British Columbia.
• Work with the latest tools and software, ensuring you're always equipped to do your best work.
• Be part of a studio that upholds a premium standard of quality across all productions, putting every resource into what’s on-screen.
• Enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and a supportive workplace culture.
• Access direct deposit and a generous benefits package.
• Grow with us through continuous learning opportunities, mentorship, and empowering you to achieve your professional goals.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes comprehensive extended health, dental, vision, prescription drug, and paramedical coverage, and access to mental health and wellness resources. Employees also enjoy a pet-friendly studio, an onsite gym, and regular social events that bring teams together both virtually and in person.

As a Character Sculptor at ICON Creative Studio, you will help define the look and personality of characters for a premium, stylized adult animated series. We are looking for an artist with a sophisticated understanding of anatomy, form, silhouette, proportion, facial structure, and character design who can translate 2D concepts into compelling three-dimensional characters while preserving the intent, attitude, and graphic appeal of the original artwork.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working within a highly stylized visual language that combines believable anatomy with pushed proportions, strong shape design, expressive faces, and a cinematic level of detail. This role is particularly suited to artists with experience in high-end animation, games, cinema tics, or character-focused feature production.

• Sculpt high-quality stylized characters from concept artwork, turnarounds, reference material, and creative direction.
• Translate 2D character designs into compelling 3D forms while preserving silhouette, proportions, personality, and graphic appeal.
• Create anatomically convincing characters while adapting anatomy and proportions to support a highly stylized adult visual language.
• Sculpt heads, faces, bodies, hands, clothing, hair forms, and other character-specific details to a premium production standard.
• Develop expressive facial forms that support nuanced acting, emotion, and close-up performance.
• Establish primary, secondary, and tertiary forms with particular attention to anatomy, planes of the face, musculature, weight distribution, and surface definition.
• Work closely with Character Designers, Art Directors, Modeling Supervisors, Rigging, Groom, Look Development, and other departments to ensure characters function effectively throughout the production pipeline.
• Interpret loose or exploratory concept artwork and resolve unanswered design questions in three dimensions.
• Maintain consistency across a cast while preserving the individuality and personality of each character.
• Respond to creative and technical feedback and iterate efficiently while maintaining a high artistic standard.
• Ensure sculpts are appropriate for downstream modeling, topology, rigging, deformation, grooming, surfacing, and animation requirements.
• Contribute to the development of character standards, workflows, and visual benchmarks for the production.
• Participate in reviews and provide constructive artistic feedback to other members of the character team.
• Assist with character-development tests and R&D as the project's visual language evolves.

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