Storyboard Artist Intern - Summer 2025
Job Summary
Job Description
Illumination seeks a Storyboard Artist Intern for Summer 2025. This portfolio-building internship offers mentorship opportunities, cross-company learning, and collaboration with experienced artists. Responsibilities include working on a portfolio project from concept to completion, ensuring storyboards align with creative vision, participating in brainstorming sessions, preparing rough drafts and thumbnails, incorporating feedback, gathering reference material, and collaborating with peers and mentors. Ideal candidates are creative, possess strong drawing skills, comedic sensibilities, storytelling abilities, and a collaborative spirit. The internship provides valuable experience in the animation industry.
Must have:
- Dynamic drawings
- Strong comedic sensibilities
- Versatility in style
- Amazing storytelling
- Collaboration skills
2 skills required
Job Details
Join the company behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Despicable Me, The Secret Life of Pets, and Sing. As an intern at Illumination, you will take part in cross company learning, partner with innovative leaders and teams, and have a seat at the table in our latest endeavors.
Illumination is seeking a Storyboard Artist Intern for Summer 2025 to participate in a portfolio building mentorship opportunity. If you are somebody that is creative, never stops doodling, and likes to make people laugh then this is the internship for you!
Responsibilities & Learning:
- Work closely with mentors to deliver a portfolio project from concept to finish
- Ensure that storyboards align with creative ambitions, vision, and style
- Participate in brainstorming sessions with storyboard artists
- Prepare rough drafts/thumbnails
- Take creative direction and incorporate feedback into revised work
- Gather reference material for projects
Craft:
- Dynamic drawings
- Biting comedic sensibilities
- Versatility
- Amazing storytelling abilities
- Comfort in creative collaboration with peers and mentors
The salary for this position is $18.00/hour
About Illumination
Illumination, founded by Chris Meledandri in 2007, is one of the entertainment industry’s leading producers of event-animated films, including Despicable Me—the most successful animated franchise in cinematic history—as well as Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch and The Secret Life of Pets and Sing films. The 2023 release of Illumination's The Super Mario Bros. Movie has joined the studio library, now comprising three of the top 10 animated films of all time. Illumination’s iconic, beloved franchises—infused with memorable and distinct characters, global appeal and cultural relevance—have grossed more than $9 billion worldwide. Illumination has an exclusive financing and distribution partnership with Universal Pictures.
Illumination is based in Santa Monica, CA and its studio, Illumination Studios Paris, is located in the center of Paris, France.
Illumination's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Illumination will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.
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