Background Artist

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Animation • $107,132 PA - $135,200 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Background Artist is responsible for designing and painting detailed backgrounds for animated feature films and TV series. Working closely with the Art Director, you'll create scene set designs, floor plans, orthographic designs, and paint backgrounds, layouts, and other background-related art. Responsibilities include meeting deadlines, fulfilling color projects (color scripts, color lead sheets, storyboards, special effects), proposing design approaches, ensuring proper artwork backup and storage, and collaborating effectively within a team environment. The ideal candidate possesses high-level drawing and painting skills, a solid understanding of composition, value, perspective, color, shape language, and design, and proficiency in Photoshop. Experience in animation (feature film, TV series, or game) is preferred.
Must have:
  • High-level drawing & painting skills
  • Understanding of composition, value, perspective, color
  • Proficiency in Photoshop
  • Collaboration with Art Director
  • Meet deadlines
Good to have:
  • Stylistic versatility
  • Experience in animation

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 $65.00/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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