Production Designer job
Posted: July 17, 2007
Post subject: Production Designer
Post subject: Production Designer
subject: Production Designer , Rainmaker Entertainment
Rainmaker Entertainment is looking for Production Designer
Job details:
Summary of Position:
The Production Designer is the leader of the art and design team who develops and implements the overall vision of the film. The successful incumbent is responsible for creating an appealing and appropriate overall visual style for the film.
Responsibilities Include:
- Collaborates with the Director and Producer to bring the film off the script page and into the visual realm.
- Communicates artistic vision to entire team.
- Writes, presents and archives the artistic guidelines for the project.
- Recruit and mentor key talents to establish a world class art and design team
- Maintains visual consistency throughout production.
- Understands the technical aspects of the project to determine the potential technical limitations that may impact the artistic input.
- Manages the art and design team members within the time and budget requirements.
- Works closely with the Digital Supervisor to ensure technical practicality of all designs.
- Creates and executes art development plans.
- Schedules and monitors art deliverables
Core Competencies:
Directing others – establishes clear directions and set objectives; distributes the workload appropriately, lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner; maintains two-way dialogue with others on work and results, brings out the best in people; a clear communicator.
Managing and Measuring Work - clearly assigns responsibility for tasks and decisions, sets clear objectives and measures; monitors process, progress, and results; designs feedback loop into work.
Planning – Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects; sets objectives and goals, breaks down work into the process steps; develops schedules and task/people assignments; anticipates and adjusts for problem and roadblocks; measures performance against goals; evaluates results.
Priority Setting – Spends his/her time and the time of others on what’s important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus.
Problem Solving – uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answer.
Creativity – has demonstrable and relevant creative and artistic ability, strong written and spoken communication and research skills.
Fostering Creativity – Maintaining a creative environment as the project goes through revisions is crucial. The Production Designer must communicate the ‘big picture’ to the artists whilst maintaining a positive attitude and showing appreciation for all artists’ work.
Qualifications Include:
- Experience in feature film production design.
- Prior CG experience an asset.
- Solid technical background – good understanding of platform constraints, software tools, graphic production process expertise.
- Demonstrable ability to motivate and direct the artistic team
- Access to network of talented artists to build Art & Design team from ground up.
- Up-to-date with the latest technology and art tools applicable for the creation of feature film.
- Thorough understanding of current 3D and 2D graphic software packages
- Excellent communication and problem solving abilities.
- Has an eye for detail
- Good time management skills
- Advanced understanding of motion principles and/or technical training in areas such as computer animation or classical animation
About the Feature Film
“Escape from Planet Earth,” is a CG-animated comedy feature about a prison break where the prison is actually Area 51, a mysterious government facility where the inmates are a rag-tag group of aliens from every corner of the universe. Gary, a neurotic alien hero must overcome his fears and self-doubt to lead a daring escape, not only from Area 51, but from the Earth itself where no alien dares to go as not a single one has ever returned.
About Rainmaker Entertainment Inc.
Rainmaker, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, is an award-winning visual effects, 3D animation and post-production company with a 28 year history of technical excellence and outstanding service in feature films, television, games and commercials. From its origins in the pioneering west coast post house Gastown Productions, Rainmaker has grown into one of North America's pre-eminent post-production service providers. Rainmaker, the largest visual effects and animation company in Canada, has three divisions -- Rainmaker Animation, Rainmaker Visual Effects and Rainmaker Post. Rainmaker also operates a facility in London -- Rainmaker Animation & Visual Effects UK Ltd. (Rainmaker UK) -- which offers cutting edge visual effects and 3D animation in that market. Rainmaker Animation, with the inclusion of recently acquired Mainframe Entertainment, creates 3D animation for the feature film market and is the industry leader in CG animation for television and direct-to-DVD family entertainment. Rainmaker Visual Effects creates state-of-the-art CG effects for the high-end feature film, television, commercial and game markets. Rainmaker Post provides a wide array of post-production services ranging from traditional film lab processes to the very latest in digital image processing including HD. Rainmaker also maintains an office in Los Angeles. California. For more information, visit http://www.rainmaker.com/
Thank you in advance for your application! Due to the high volume of applications, we only contact those applicants who are short-listed for interviews.
If your are interested in this position, please apply via our corporate website. http://www.mainframe.ca/
Or, by post to:
Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. Suite 200-2025 West Broadway Vancouver BC V6J 1Z6 Attn: Recruiting Or, fax to: 604-714-2641
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Rainmaker Entertainment is looking for Production Designer
Job details:
Summary of Position:
The Production Designer is the leader of the art and design team who develops and implements the overall vision of the film. The successful incumbent is responsible for creating an appealing and appropriate overall visual style for the film.
Responsibilities Include:
- Collaborates with the Director and Producer to bring the film off the script page and into the visual realm.
- Communicates artistic vision to entire team.
- Writes, presents and archives the artistic guidelines for the project.
- Recruit and mentor key talents to establish a world class art and design team
- Maintains visual consistency throughout production.
- Understands the technical aspects of the project to determine the potential technical limitations that may impact the artistic input.
- Manages the art and design team members within the time and budget requirements.
- Works closely with the Digital Supervisor to ensure technical practicality of all designs.
- Creates and executes art development plans.
- Schedules and monitors art deliverables
Core Competencies:
Directing others – establishes clear directions and set objectives; distributes the workload appropriately, lays out work in a well-planned and organized manner; maintains two-way dialogue with others on work and results, brings out the best in people; a clear communicator.
Managing and Measuring Work - clearly assigns responsibility for tasks and decisions, sets clear objectives and measures; monitors process, progress, and results; designs feedback loop into work.
Planning – Accurately scopes out length and difficulty of tasks and projects; sets objectives and goals, breaks down work into the process steps; develops schedules and task/people assignments; anticipates and adjusts for problem and roadblocks; measures performance against goals; evaluates results.
Priority Setting – Spends his/her time and the time of others on what’s important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus.
Problem Solving – uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answer.
Creativity – has demonstrable and relevant creative and artistic ability, strong written and spoken communication and research skills.
Fostering Creativity – Maintaining a creative environment as the project goes through revisions is crucial. The Production Designer must communicate the ‘big picture’ to the artists whilst maintaining a positive attitude and showing appreciation for all artists’ work.
Qualifications Include:
- Experience in feature film production design.
- Prior CG experience an asset.
- Solid technical background – good understanding of platform constraints, software tools, graphic production process expertise.
- Demonstrable ability to motivate and direct the artistic team
- Access to network of talented artists to build Art & Design team from ground up.
- Up-to-date with the latest technology and art tools applicable for the creation of feature film.
- Thorough understanding of current 3D and 2D graphic software packages
- Excellent communication and problem solving abilities.
- Has an eye for detail
- Good time management skills
- Advanced understanding of motion principles and/or technical training in areas such as computer animation or classical animation
About the Feature Film
“Escape from Planet Earth,” is a CG-animated comedy feature about a prison break where the prison is actually Area 51, a mysterious government facility where the inmates are a rag-tag group of aliens from every corner of the universe. Gary, a neurotic alien hero must overcome his fears and self-doubt to lead a daring escape, not only from Area 51, but from the Earth itself where no alien dares to go as not a single one has ever returned.
About Rainmaker Entertainment Inc.
Rainmaker, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, is an award-winning visual effects, 3D animation and post-production company with a 28 year history of technical excellence and outstanding service in feature films, television, games and commercials. From its origins in the pioneering west coast post house Gastown Productions, Rainmaker has grown into one of North America's pre-eminent post-production service providers. Rainmaker, the largest visual effects and animation company in Canada, has three divisions -- Rainmaker Animation, Rainmaker Visual Effects and Rainmaker Post. Rainmaker also operates a facility in London -- Rainmaker Animation & Visual Effects UK Ltd. (Rainmaker UK) -- which offers cutting edge visual effects and 3D animation in that market. Rainmaker Animation, with the inclusion of recently acquired Mainframe Entertainment, creates 3D animation for the feature film market and is the industry leader in CG animation for television and direct-to-DVD family entertainment. Rainmaker Visual Effects creates state-of-the-art CG effects for the high-end feature film, television, commercial and game markets. Rainmaker Post provides a wide array of post-production services ranging from traditional film lab processes to the very latest in digital image processing including HD. Rainmaker also maintains an office in Los Angeles. California. For more information, visit http://www.rainmaker.com/
Thank you in advance for your application! Due to the high volume of applications, we only contact those applicants who are short-listed for interviews.
If your are interested in this position, please apply via our corporate website. http://www.mainframe.ca/
Or, by post to:
Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. Suite 200-2025 West Broadway Vancouver BC V6J 1Z6 Attn: Recruiting Or, fax to: 604-714-2641
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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