Background Artist

11 Hours ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Background Artist is responsible for designing and painting detailed backgrounds in alignment with the show's vision and aesthetic, working closely with the Art Director and other creative leads. Key responsibilities include creating scene set designs, floor plans, and orthographic designs, painting backgrounds and layouts to meet production requirements and show quality, completing designs within deadlines, fulfilling color projects such as color scripts and storyboards, proposing design approaches considering downstream departments, ensuring artwork is properly backed up and stored, and working both independently and collaboratively. The role requires resolving design issues with the Art Director and a strong understanding of composition, perspective, color, and design principles.
Must have:
  • High-level drawing and painting skills
  • Understanding of composition, value, perspective, color, shape language, and design
  • Proficiency in the style of the show
  • Stylistic versatility
  • Photoshop knowledge
Good to have:
  • Previous experience on animated feature film, TV series, or game

Job Details

The Background Artist is in charge of designing and painting detailed backgrounds. Working with the Art Director, and other creative leads, you will explore designing and painting backgrounds that align with the vision and aesthetic of the show. 

Sony Pictures Animation is an animation studio based in Culver City, California, creating both feature animation and animated series with artists from around the world. We pride ourselves on empowering filmmakers to lead the creative process and allowing the hand of the artist to be truly felt, with the goal of producing bold and innovative visual storytelling.

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with Art Director to create scene set designs, floor plans, and orthographic designs with multiple angles as needed
  • Paints backgrounds, layouts and any other background-related art that the production may require, ensuring style and quality of show is met
  • Complete all rough, revised and final designs necessary within assigned deadlines
  • Be available to fulfill all color projects – including but not limited to – color scripts, color lead sheets, storyboards, special backgrounds / effects as it pertains to each episode
  • Propose design approaches that consider downstream departments (modeling and texturing)
  • Ensure all artwork is properly backed up, stored appropriately, and all shipping materials are prepared and ready on time
  • Able to work independently and within a team environment
  • Work closely with the Art Director to resolve design issues

Qualifications:

  • Previous experience on an animated feature film, tv series, or game preferred
  • Ability to articulate creative ideas
  • Must demonstrate high-level drawing and painting skills 
  • Must have a solid understanding of composition, value, perspective, color, shape language, and overall design
  • Must demonstrate proficiency in style of show
  • We value inventiveness! Each Sony Pictures Animation project has its own distinctive and outstanding visual language so it is helpful to have stylistic versatility
  • Photoshop knowledge required

The anticipated base salary for this position is $51.61/hour to $58.00/hour. This role qualifies for benefits pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement. The actual salary offered will depend on a variety of factors.

To apply, please include a resume and a link to your portfolio. Please make sure to include any passwords to your work in your cover letter and/or in your resume.

Sony Pictures Animation is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.

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The studio's latest theatrical release is "Spider-Man™: Across the Spider-Verse," the highly-anticipated sequel to the Academy Award®-winning "Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse" and the second film in the Spider-Verse trilogy.


The division is also behind the visually-groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed "The Mitchells vs. The Machines," the hit film series "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," and "Hotel Transylvania," and the upcoming 2D adult comedy "Fixed" from visionary director Genndy Tartakovsky.


In 2023, the studio released its first two series - "Agent Elvis," an adult animated action comedy, and "Young Love," which expands on the story and characters introduced in the Oscar®-winning short film, “Hair Love.”


Sony Pictures Animation, which was founded in 2002, is a division of the Sony Pictures Motion Pictures Group for Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.


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