Production Coordinator
Job Summary
Job Description
- VFX/animation experience
- Google Spreadsheets
- Microsoft Outlook
- Excel & Word
- Feature-animation film
- Production Database
- Cinesync/RV sessions
- Production Methodologies
- Dynamic Culture
- Growth Fostered
6 skills required
Job Details
Responsibilities
- Understands the department(s) and works with Production Supervisor and Department Head to maintain and manage the department schedule.
- Under the guidance of the Production Supervisor, tracks progress of tasks for assigned artists or sequences in Shotgun to reflect scheduled, in-progress, and completed departmental work. Collaborate with other coordinators and supervisors to keep all data accurate and current.
- Partner with the Production Supervisor and Department Head to set the priorities of the department taking into account the priorities of the show that are established by the Production Supervisors and the Production Manager.
- Enter and maintain production data in the studio's production database and related departmental records to reflect scheduled, in-progress, and completed departmental work.
- Collaborate with other coordinators and managers to keep all data accurate and up-to-date.
- Schedule meetings at the request of the Manager and Lead(s); proactively maintain the calendar with alertness to topics, deadlines and conflicts; manage the schedules of key personnel.
- Ensure proper preparation for all meetings and reviews; record and publish notes from meetings and reviews that accurately reflect action items and distribute as needed.
- Coordinate work that enters and leaves the department to ensure completeness; provide administrative support as needed to ensure that communications are accurate and complete.
- As second in command to the Production Supervisor, proactively respond to requests for information and assistance from those within and outside of the department.
- Follows up with Artist Leads on a daily basis to ensure task deliveries remain on schedule.
- Assists Production Supervisor with maintaining quotas, deadlines & inventory, ensuring departmental productivity goals are consistently met; generate weekly report from department, quota; bring concerns about potential schedule or budget overruns to the Production Supervisor and Production Manager.
- Understands the department's workflow from the area she/he is attached to and understands the dependencies from departments of other areas. Act as a point of coordination of work that enters and leaves the department ensuring procedures are followed to ensure workflow from one department to the next is as seamless as possible.
- Communicates with other departments regarding department needs.
- Stays abreast of issues on the floor and elevates information appropriately to Production Supervisor.
- Assists the Department Head and CG Supervisor in dealing with issues related to the department.
- Coordinates crew meetings.
- Responsible for multiple dailies sessions each day, as well as client reviews
- Ensure proper preparation for all meetings and reviews; set up Cinesync/RV sessions; record and publish notes from meetings and reviews that accurately reflect action items and an appropriate sense of urgency.
- Keeps up on current production methodologies and on technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company in the development of a stronger creative and technical environment.
- Collaborates with other team members, when necessary.
- Follows the Supervisor’s and Lead's guidance.
- Mentor the Production Assistants.
Requirements
- 3+years in VFX or or animation industries preferably as a Production Coordinator in feature-animation film production or VFX
- Bachelor’s degree in film, art, communications or related field
- Professional working knowledge of Google Spreadsheets, Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word
- High English language skill level
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About The Company
About Skydance Media
Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, and interactive platforms. Its feature films include Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Annihilation, LIFE, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Star Trek Beyond, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, World War Z, Star Trek Into Darkness, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jack Reacher, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and True Grit. Skydance’s upcoming film releases include Top Gun: Maverick, Gemini Man, The Old Guard, 6 Underground and the nwe untitled Terminator film. In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance Television launched in 2013. Its current slate includes Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie on Netflix, Altered Carbon on Netflix, Jack Ryan on Amazon, and Condor on AT&T Audience Network. Skydance Interactive launched in 2016 to create and publish original and IP-based virtual reality experiences and video games. Skydance Interactive recently debuted its first original title – Archangel, a story-driven VR shooter.
About Skydance Interactive
Skydance Interactive creates and publishes original and IP-based virtual reality games. The division of Skydance Media was launched in 2016 through the acquisition of The Workshop Entertainment. Skydance Interactive’s first VR offering is Archangel, launched on July 18th 2017. Skydance Interactive in 2017 partnered with Skybound Entertainment to develop a number of original virtual reality video games based on the expansive world of The Walking Dead universe. The Walking Dead VR game will be the inaugural co-developed title from both companies. The studio is located in Marina del Rey, CA.
About Animation
In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance’s first three animated features are Luck, Split (working title), and Powerless (working title). Luck, directed by Alessandro Carloni (Kung Fu Panda 3) and written by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger, is a comedy that pulls back the curtain on the millennia-old battle between the organizations of good luck and bad luck that secretly affects our daily lives. Split, directed by Vicky Jenson (Shrek) and written by Linda Woolverton, tells the story of Elian, a teenager who comes of age using her magical powers to defend her family when the opposing forces of light and darkness threaten to divide her kingdom. Nathan Greno (Tangled) is set to direct Powerless. The studio is located in Los Angeles, CA.
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