Animation Checker - Big City Greens Movie

Job Description

Animation Checker - Big City Greens Movie (Disney Television Animation)

The Animation Checker ensures consistent and complete delivery of production material to vendor studios and controls quality to reduce post-production costs.

Responsibilities:
• Overall: check and confirm that all files, media, and information to be shipped are correct, complete and consistent.
• Using Storyboard Pro, review storyboards prior to production for missing or incorrect scene descriptions, character actions, camera moves, effects, and special notes on each panel within each scene.
• Coordinate with Director and Production to include revised storyboard panels from animatic if there is a difference and/or coordinate with Editor to adjust animatic to include any revised storyboard panels after confirming with Director.
• Make sure scene numbers, action notes, camera moves, effects, character names, special notes, hook-ups, and lighting sources are all called out correctly on storyboard and X-sheets, if applicable, and that the storyboards, X-sheets and animatic all match each other.
• Verify that character reactions, expressions and actions are concise and follow standard walk/run cycle sheets, where applicable
• If X-sheets are required, review lip assignment to confirm the correct mouth chart is followed
• Review scene cuts and confirm they match the animatic. Review with Director if scene cuts do not match. Coordinate with Timing Director to adjust scene cuts, if necessary.
• Ensure there are correct camera moves, action, lip sync, character names, abbreviations, hook-ups or effects and correct scene and panel numbers on all X-sheets.
• Create the final route sheet within Insight
• Enter final footage and submit final checked work to Production to ship to vendor studio

Qualifications:
• Advanced Mac/PC skills
• Familiarity with Storyboard Pro
• Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and Insight or ability to quickly learn proprietary software
• Traditional 2D, Harmony and CG Animation Pipeline experience or training preferred

Skills:
• Proven ability to be detail-oriented and highly organized is required.
• Good written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Must be able to work collaboratively, often with multiple tasks and under deadline pressure.
• Must be open to direction and able to embrace change.

Education:
• Bachelor degree or equivalent work experience

Job Location: Burbank, CA

Compensation:

The hiring range for this union position in Glendale, CA is $39.25 to $51.52 per hour. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.

Additional Information:

Equal Opportunity Employer--Female/Minority/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

About Disney General Entertainment Content:

The Disney General Entertainment Content group creates original entertainment and news content for the Company's streaming platforms and its cable and broadcast networks.

This position is with Walt Disney Pictures, which is part of a business we call Disney General Entertainment Content.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4m3ev-18-222-22-244-42 in your application.