Portfolio Review: Story Artists

Skydance Animation's Los Angeles team is offering portfolio reviews to meet with talented artists! Our dynamic new studio is regularly on the search for passionate and creative people to join the teams of our upcoming animated feature films. As a Story Arist, you translate an idea and turn it into visuals that convey all facets of the overall direction of the film, including emotion, humor, and action. You are an expert of character anatomy, both physical and emotional, and can translate the abstract into something solid. You partner with the Directors and Head of Story to develop expressive, entertaining storyboards. You usually are given script pages as a guide but also must be able to take an unfinished idea and flesh it out into a full scene.

• Design and/or illustrate concepts through sketches, painting and storyboards
• Create storyboards in the form of presentation and rough thumbnail boards
• Create color concepts that may include marker sketches, paintings, and computer-generated imagery
• Refine concepts technically and visually, follow through with implementation
• Ability to express character emotion and attitude through drawings; sense of filmic staging and story telling, entertainment and humor
• Knowledge of anatomy, perspective, and composition
• Ability to brainstorm inventive ideas to plus story material and present storyboards in an effective manner
• Requirement to be, or become, a member in good standing of the Animation Guild (Local 839)