Story Artist, Tiana Long-Form Series

Job Description

Located in Burbank, WDAS continues to build on its rich legacy of innovation and creativity. WDAS is breaking new ground in episodic storytelling, bringing theatrical quality animation to the series format for Disney+.

Join the Tiana Long-Form Series Team!

We are excited to continue the story of The Princess & The Frog in our upcoming long-form musical Disney+ series. Tiana follows the newly crowned Princess of Maldonia as she sets off for a grand new adventure, but a calling to her New Orleans past isn't far behind. We are looking for passionate Story Artists to join the Tiana Series filmmaking team.

What You'll Do:
• Brainstorm ideas and develop visual Story sequences
• Bring your unique perspective and voice to contribute in Story discussions and pitches
• Collaborate with curiosity, creativity, and inclusion alongside our series' Director, Head of Story, and cross departmental artists
• Convey the essence of story line, scene structure, and character building in alignment with the direction of the series
• Develop cinematography, staging, and cutting of sequences
• Further the structure, clarity, and theme of each episode and the overall series
• Maximize a scene's entertainment value
• Pitch storyboard work to artists and filmmakers
• Work collaboratively with leaders and production management to meet the series' deadlines

Requirements:
• Strong drawing skills, ability to work digitally preferred
• Sense of design, appeal, character acting, and composition
• Ability to create emotion, humor, and action through continuity boards; emphasis in specific and nuanced, emotional human acting preferred
• Understanding of film structure, cinematic staging, and cutting
• Ability to work collaboratively
• Professional experience in Feature Films, Streaming Content, Television Series, Comics, or Games as a Story Artist
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

To apply, you must upload a portfolio and a resume consisting of continuity sequences of your best and latest storyboard work. Portfolios must be formatted as any of the following:
• Website with sequences in slideshow format
• Video sharing link for animatics and/or pitches (such as Youtube/Vimeo)
• A multipage PDF file with each board as its own page so we can click through your sequences board by board (you can upload via a Googledrive link)

WDAS continues to build on its rich legacy of innovation and creativity, from the first fully-animated feature film, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to 2019's Frozen 2, the biggest animated film of all time, to our 60th animated feature, Encanto, releasing November 2021. Among the studio's timeless creations are Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Frozen, Big Hero 6 and Zootopia.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g63j59-18-223-32-230-42 in your application.