Intermediate Asset Finaler

Company Overview

     ICON Creative Studio is Canada’s largest independently owned animation entertainment company, located in the historic Gastown district of Vancouver, BC. Our talented team includes specialists across the entire animation pipeline, working alongside creative and management professionals to deliver outstanding animated content.

Known for our commitment to quality, efficiency, and timely deliveries, ICON has partnered with distributors, broadcasters, and leading streaming platforms worldwide to create and produce noteworthy, impactful projects.

We operate from a holistic philosophy, leveraging the unique skill sets of our team members to maximize production efficiency while maintaining an optimal balance of creativity and quality on-screen.

Why work at ICON?

• Collaborate on top-tier feature and episodic CG franchises for major streaming platforms, including Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Amazon, Peacock, and Paramount+.
• Be part of a diverse team of artists from around the globe who have joined us here in British Columbia.
• Work with the latest tools and software, ensuring you're always equipped to do your best work.
• Be part of a studio that upholds a premium standard of quality across all productions, putting every resource into what’s on-screen.
• Enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and a supportive workplace culture.
• Access direct deposit and a generous benefits package.
• Grow with us through continuous learning opportunities, mentorship, and empowering you to achieve your professional goals.

Job Overview

     As the Asset Finaler, you play a crucial role in perfecting 3D models, textures, and animations for our Animation projects. Your responsibilities include conducting detailed reviews, implementing quality assurance processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve issues. Working closely with Asset creation, rigging function and needs along with lighting and proper material and texture creation, you ensure seamless integration and address technical challenges. Maintaining meticulous documentation, providing clear communication, and offering constructive feedback contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. You will hands on with all assets working down pipeline as well as modeling/texturing assets for the project.  Your role is essential in achieving and maintaining the highest artistic and technical standards for our animation assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Finalize and refine 3D models, textures, and animations to meet project requirements and artistic standards.
• Conduct detailed reviews to identify and address any imperfections or inconsistencies.
• Implement thorough quality assurance processes to ensure assets are production-ready.
• Collaborate with modeling, texturing, lighting and animation teams to resolve any issues identified during the finaling process.
• Work closely with technical teams to ensure seamless integration of finalized assets into the animation pipeline.
• Collaborate with asset artists, riggers and animators to address any technical challenges related to asset finalization.
• Maintain detailed documentation of finalizing processes and standards.
• Modeling and Texturing assets.
• Provide clear communication to relevant teams regarding finalized asset specifications.
• Provide constructive feedback to modeling, texturing, and animation teams for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address artistic and technical considerations.

Skills and Experience

• Industry Experience: experience in animation, VFX, or gaming industry.
• Departmental Expertise: Strong proficiency in at least two departments, such as:
• assets/LRC - Assets/SFN - SFN / LRC.
• Troubleshooting Skills: Exceptional ability to diagnose and solve technical issues
• proactively.
• Software/Plugins Proficiency:
• Maya (Advanced knowledge required)
• Houdini / Bifrost (Preferred but not mandatory)
• Nuke (Compositing templates for lighting artists)
• ShotGrid (Task tracking and publishing workflows)
• Yeti / XGen (For grooming-related work)
• Substance Painter / Mari (For texture troubleshooting)
• Pipeline Knowledge: Familiarity with animation and VFX production pipelines, including
• asset preparation for lighting and comp.
• Communication & Collaboration: Ability to work closely with supervisors, artists, and
• production teams to ensure seamless asset integration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in both stylized and realistic animation pipelines.
• Strong understanding of topology, deformation, and animation rigging principles.
• Background in technical art or TD-level troubleshooting.
• Experience working with large-scale productions and handling high asset complexity.

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The wage range for this role reflects compensation across all of ICON’s projects. The final salary will be determined based on the specific position, the current show assignment, and the applicant’s experience and portfolio. This range accounts for varying levels of experience and responsibilities.

In compliance with British Columbia provincial mandates, we are posting this broad wage range to meet wage transparency requirements.

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ICON Creative Studio is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.