Character Designer

1 Month ago • All levels • Character Art

Job Summary

Job Description

As a character designer, you will imagine and illustrate characters and/or props for animation projects in 2D, VFX, or print. Your creations can be cartoonish or realistic, minimalist or detailed, portraying humans, animals, or aliens. The goal is to make them striking, endearing, hateful, beautiful, or ugly, but always unique. Responsibilities include designing characters in various animated styles with a preference for cartooning, setting up detailed reference materials with material and color references, interpreting color scripts, enriching the artistic vision of a project, executing corrections, collaborating with the modeling department for 3D translation, organizing work, preparing presentation elements, and providing progress reports.
Must have:
  • Design characters in animated styles, especially cartooning
  • Set up detailed reference materials
  • Interpret a color script
  • Enrich artistic vision
  • Execute corrections
  • Work with modeling department
  • Organize work and prepare presentations
  • Provide progress reports
  • Degree or practice in art/drawing
  • Excellent artistic eye for anatomy, shapes, proportions
Good to have:
  • Degree in 3D animation program
  • Experience in film, advertising, TV
  • Experience in cartoon style projects
  • Knowledge of 3D animation techniques
  • Knowledge of Shotgrid
  • Ease with Windows environment
Perks:
  • Hybrid work flexibility
  • Group health insurance

Job Details

CHARACTER DESIGNER

Studio 3D

As a character designer, you imagine and illustrate the characters and/or props for our animation in our 2D, vfx or print projects by making them cartoonish or realistic and in a minimalist or detailed manner. These often portray humans, but sometimes animals or even aliens... In either case, you make them striking, endearing, hateful, beautiful or ugly, but always unique.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Design characters in a variety of animated styles, with a inclination for cartooning;
  • Set up detailed reference materials, with material and color references;
  • Interpret a color script;
  • Enrich the artistic vision of a project;
  • Execute corrections requested by supervisors and/or director employing analytical skills;
  • Work with the modeling department to ensure that designs translate into 3D;
  • Organize work and prepare presentation elements for validations;
  • Provide supervisors and producers with progress reports on an "as needed" basis.

WE'D LIKE TO MEET YOU IF YOU HAVE:

  • A degree or practice in art, drawing;
  • A degree in a 3D animation program (asset);
  • Experience in character design; 
  • Experience in film, advertising, TV (asset);
  • Experience in cartoon style projects (asset);
  • An excellent artistic eye for anatomy, shapes and proportions;
  • Knowledge of 3D animation techniques (asset);
  • Knowledge of Shotgrid (asset);
  • a level of ease with the Windows environment (asset).

YOUR WORK TOOLS:

  • Photoshop 

ENVIRONMENT, VALUES AND WORKING CONDITIONS

We believe in a healthy work environment where commitment, mutual aid and direct communication between artists are valued. Whether you want to progress within your discipline or take on new challenges, you will find the right playground at SHED.

Work-life balance is a key concern for us as an employer, therefore we offer the flexibility of hybrid work and group health insurance.

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