Compositing Supervisor

At Brown Bag Films our motto is simple: “We love animation.” In fact, we love it so much we trademarked it ‘We Love Animation.’ That means we put our artists at the heart of everything we do We are looking for a Compositing Supervisor to join our team who shares our vision and will bring with them a passion for creating high quality content.

Role Title: Compositing Supervisor
Reporting to: Art Director

Purpose: Why you’re here at Brown Bag Films
- To lead, manage and mentor the compositing team to achieve the required level of artistry required for the project
- To ensure the compositing team meets and maintain the production schedule and quality of work

Delivery: What you produce
- Final images with combined layers of previously created material, including computer animation, effects and backgrounds.
- Polished animated scenes (cinematic) (ex. Extra lighting, shadows, blurs glows, parallax, lens artifacts, particles, procedural fx brighter colors)
- Mentorship and Compositor development

Measurements: How we measure it
- Compositing completion within agreed schedule
- Client feedback
- Feedback from Producer, Technical Director, and Art Director
- Handling of revisions and tweaks effectively
- Team development, quality of work & technical capability within team

**Key Responsibilities**

Responsibilities: What you are regularly responsible for doing
- Managing a team of compositors using Compositing tools that are required for the project
- Collaborate closely with Directors, Supervisors and team of Compositors to ensure the highest quality product possible
- Working closely with Technical Directors to create tools and streamline the compositing process
- Communicate clearly and regularly with Series Producers, Directors and Art Directors on the production status and attend meetings as required
- Partner with HR in the recruitment of the compositing team
- Promote and facilitate effective communication regarding the compositing assignments between Art directors, Production Management and your Composting team
- Partner with Director and Production Management to facilitate the career growth of the key talent within the compositing department.

**Key Requirements**

Things that help you do your job (what is essential & what is desirable)

Knowledge:
**Experience**:

- Extensive experience in compositing using software’s such as Toon Boom and Harmony
- Experience in development and maintenance of Compositing pipelines

Technical skills:

- An excellent and creative artistic ‘eye’ with a solid understanding of composition, light, color, and film production concepts (ie. camera moves, lens artifacts, terminology, etc.)
- Must be able to communicate in an articulate and positive manner.
- Strong ability to come up with creative, out-of-the-box, and efficient solutions to benefit the requirements of the project.

Portfolio demonstrating a diverse range of styles, (incorporating understanding of graphic, illustrative and comic book art favorable)
- Why work with us?

Perks Perks Perks Not only is 9 Story Media Group / Brown Bag Films an amazing place full of artists, animators and creators from all corners of the industry, but we focus on helping staff grow and develop in their careers and make them long time team members. Along with a great work environment we offer first-rate health + dental benefits, summer hours, paid Health and Wellness Days, vacation periods that multiply with tenure, and more We may love animation, but we love our employees even more

Our Toronto office can be found in the cool and trendy Liberty Village with over 200 artists working on award winning animated children’s content. You will benefit from a competitive compensation package, interesting work and a fun/supportive work environment.

Applicants need to be legally eligible to work in Canada.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

As a company, we deliver high-quality kids' content, and we seek to have diverse characters so that all our audience feels represented. We also want the same for our own workforce, and 9 Story Media is committed to looking for all kinds of talent to build a diverse workforce in which all identities are represented and respected.

**Salary**

**Expected Start Date