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Boulder Media requires a Background Artist

Responsibilities:

• You must have a clear understanding of the show/scenes that are assigned to you by running through the scenes/animatic with your team members. If there are any questions or suggestions these must be relayed to the Supervisor of BGS, the Art Director or Series Director.
• You must have excellent drawing skills with a great sense of colour, design, perspective, staging, camera placement and composition.
• You will be expected to produce a set output per week as set out in the schedule for any given project assigned to you.
• Prior to starting a scene, you must make sure that all necessary materials are present i.e. sketches, Layouts, Keys if available, props, character layout, EFX. Communicate with your team lead and the Production office and Director if materials are not available.
• Ensure that each team member have prioritizes their scenes and they have organized their workflow enabling them to meet quotas and deadlines.
• All Backgrounds produced must be of a consistently high standard. Before a team member saves a scene into any folder on the server please ask your Team Lead to review and approve – if changes are called please make the changes as quickly as possible.
• Create all levels of basic and complex Backgrounds sequences as assigned by the lead Background artist, director and supervisor.

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

• Candidates will preferably have experience in working as a Background Artist.
• Experience in Photoshop and a general knowledge of artistic software and hardware essential.
• You must have excellent drawing skills with a great sense of colour, design, perspective, staging, camera placement and composition.

This role is only open to applicants willing to relocate to Ireland if required and all applicants must be eligible to work within EEA.

Boulder Media is an equal opportunities employer.

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