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Sydney, Australia Flying Bark Productions Full time

**Flying Bark Productions is working on exciting projects such as Marvel Studios’ What If ? Disney Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, the recently announced Avatar: The Last Airbender feature film, Flying Bark’s own 200% Wolf, and many others.**_

**What do we do?**

Flying Bark Productions is a renowned independent producer of family-focused animation entertainment. For over 50 years, our full-service 2D and 3D production facility has created award-winning feature films and TV series such as _100% Wolf,_ _Maya: The Bee_ and _Blinky Bill: The Movie_.

With over 400 artists at our studios in Sydney and Los Angeles, and partner studios around the world, Flying Bark is one of the largest studios in Australia. Flying Bark is wholly owned by Studio 100: a vertically integrated entertainment powerhouse based in Europe, with theme parks, theatrical productions, and live action and animation studios in Belgium, Germany, France and the USA.

Flying Bark also provides world-class animation services for global clients including Paramount (_Avatar: The Last Airbender_) Nickelodeon (_Glitch Techs, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_), Marvel (_What If...?_), LEGO (_Monkie Kid_) and Disney+ (_Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur_).

**Why work with us?**
- We have an industry leading studio space in the heart of Sydney’s creative inner-west, complete with a cinema, quiet room, Zen Garden, games room, and state of the art animation facilities.
- Breakfast is served daily - on us
- We have cake days, movie nights, wrap parties & a Kulture Klub dedicated to coordinating our busy social calendar
- The Barkers have big hearts too, with out Paws for a Cause fundraising arm raising much needed funds for charities such as Beyond Blue, RSPCA and the Cancer Council.
- If you love dogs as much as we do, you can bring them to work
- Work from anywhere with our flexible remote working policy.
- We have a full slate and plans for international expansion so there is always plenty of opportunity for career development.
- Our employees say our culture is the best they've ever experienced - everyone is welcome and celebrated
- You'll have access to mental health resources and free counselling via our Employee Assistant Provider, Support Act.

**Position**:Crowd Artist

**Reports to**:Producer

**Supervisor/s**: VFX Supervisor, Animation Director, Lead Animator/s

**Key relationships with**: VFX Supervisor, CG Supervisor Animation Crew, Rigging Crew and Production Crew.

The **Crowd Artist **is responsible for creating the motion of crowds, in high-end animated series including simulation for planning and layout purposes.

Additionally, working to, and maintaining, the creative and technical requirements for animation for the project as required by the VFX Supervisor and Animation Director; and to the production and shot schedule provided by the Production Company.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Creates digital crowd behaviours and simulations to achieve the look, movement, and style envisioned by the Animation Director and the VFX Supervisor
- Collaborates and communicates with VFX/CG Supervisors and Producers in order to implement efficient and effective ways to integrate crowd pipeline tools and techniques
- Works with Animation teams to identify and breakdown behaviours into cycles for artists to use
- Establishes ongoing communication with artists, leads, production and supervisors regarding schedules, deadlines and shot/sequence feedback
- Attends all relevant meetings
- Proposes creative approaches and solutions for any specific shots
- Gives feedback to the department TD’s to continue the development of tools and workflows associated with crowd simulation
- Builds templates that are highly geared towards automation
- Be willing to assist/mentor junior team members with any technical/artistic challenges they may have

**Key Measures of Success**:

- Ability to take direction from a Supervisor and be team oriented;
- Ability to take and successfully interpret a verbal or visual creative brief;
- Excellent communication skills and willingness to share information in a team environment;
- Ability to consistently meet deadlines;
- Ability to take direction and be flexible and responsive to change;
- Ability to work independently as well as under direct supervision;
- Excellent in problem solving and balancing quick turnaround with long term quality and ability to meet deadlines with high quality output

**Skillset**
- Minimum requirement of 3+ years production experience in 3D animated films and/or animated episodic;
- Good sense of narrative storytelling, comic timing and emotive visual language;
- Solid experience and understanding of Maya in a production based environment;
- Solid knowledge of animation workflows, character rigs and storyboard interpretation;
- Able to collaborate with the animation team to achieve the Art Director & Show Director’s vision;
- Good understanding of crowd shading and rendering procedur