Environment Designer

Walt Disney Animation Studios; Burbank (CA); Presencial; USD 84.000 - 99.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ The Secret Lab seeks Environment Designers to craft immersive worlds and interiors that serve a film’s narrative. You will translate concepts into precise drawings and renderings, collaborating with downstream departments to inform art direction.

Applicants should demonstrate strong cinematic composition, mood, and color strategies, with experience in feature animation and a degree or equivalent experience.

Formación

• Proficiency in Photoshop.
• Professional experience required.
• Feature animation experience preferred.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsabilidades

• Design environments, spaces, and cinematic moments based on director's vision.
• Translate designs into technical drawings and surfacing for downstream collaboration.
• Communicate with downstream teams to clarify requests and provide context.
• Collaborate with art departments to ensure consistency with the film style.

Conocimientos

Creative design

Educación

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Herramientas

Photoshop

Descripción del empleo

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. Learn more about our filmmaking process here.

What You Will Do

• 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

What We’re Looking For

• 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

Requirements

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

Portfolios Should Include

• 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
• If any of your work is password protected, please include the password with your application (even if just included on your resume)
• Social media accounts may be submitted as supplemental material but should not be your primary portfolio (websites or multipage PDF files submitted via a Google drive preferred)

At Walt Disney Animation Studios, we believe strong design builds unforgettable stories. 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. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

This position is with The Secret Lab, which is part of a business we call Walt Disney Animation Studios.

The Secret Lab is an equal opportunity employer.

Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

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