Background Painter

1 day ago

Toronto, Canada Brown Bag Films Full time

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 an artist to join our team who shares our vision and will bring with them a passion for creating high quality content.

Purpose: Why you’re here at Brown Bag Films
- To produce Background Paintings, in correct and approved style of the animated production.

Delivery: What you produce
- Completed Background Paintings for the property, painted in correct style and ready for scene planning and animation.

Measurements: How we measure it
- Meets creative requirements, within stylistic guidelines and schedule
- BG paint Supervisor and Art Director approvals.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Creating Background Paintings using provided layouts, making sure that the Backgrounds stay on style of the production.
- Working closely with BG Paint Supervisor to find the best solutions for technical challenges.
- Creating background paintings in the correct form, layered correctly with appropriate layout provided guides intact and ready for scene planning and animation.

**Key Requirements**
- Knowledge
- Strong knowledge in art and design with a focus on Animation.
- Strong artistic sensibility, centered on painting environments and backgrounds for animated productions.
- Strong knowledge of colour and colour styling.
- Familiarity with the 2D pipeline.
- Knowledge of Photoshop
- Experience
- Background paint or painted environmental visual development for an animated TV Series or Feature.
- Technical skills
- Drawing & painting within an animation environment.
- Expert in Photoshop.
- Other drawing programs such as Clip Studio (desirable).
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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.

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