Job Description

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ICON Creative Studio is Canada’s largest independently owned animation entertainment company located in the historic Gastown district of Vancouver, BC Canada with design, storyboarding, modeling, rigging, animation, technical finaling, lighting, visual effects, and compositing artists alongside creative and management teams.
Known for our quality, efficiency, and timely deliveries, ICON has partnered alongside distributors, broadcasters, and streaming platforms around the world to help create, realize and produce noteworthy content.
ICON operates from a holistic philosophy that leverages individual skill sets to maximize production efficiency on the floor while maintaining an optimal balance of creativity and quality on-screen.
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Must be willing to work on site as needed.
- Why work at ICON?
At ICON we constantly invest in raising the bar of our productions and fostering our people. If you are a passionate artist capable of sharing success with others, we'd like to hear from you!

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• Join the fastest growing CG Animation studio in Vancouver
• Work in a safe environment. The company has successfully set up the ability to work from home via a high-speed Teradici connection.
• Work on top feature episodic CG franchises for leading streaming platforms (Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Amazon, Peacock, Paramount+ etc.)
• Work with a diverse group of artists from all over the world who have come to BC to join our expanding studio
• Use all of the latest tools and Softwares
• We uphold a premium standard of quality across all of our production
• We hire for the long term and give artists the opportunity to grow, get promoted and take on as much responsibility as they can manage
• We offer flexibility and autonomy
• We facilitate requests and make changes in a timely manner
• We support PR applications
• Direct Deposit
• We offer a generous benefits package for all employees

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Lighting Supervisor

• Proficiency in Maya, Nuke, and Arnold
  
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Strong attention to detail through various stages of the pipeline
• Communicate with other departments to resolve technical issues
• Look development, key lighting, and thorough vetting of CG assets
• Ensures work translates cleanly across all artists/shots with the goal of streamlining workflow
• Assists team members with technical shot/sequence/continuity issues
• Works with Supervisor to maintain artistic quality of the show
• Comfortable in overtime scenarios and willing to take on difficult work during deadlines and the final push
• Distributes workloads among team members and maintain work balance across the team
• Documents workflow and provides as a resource for the team
• Actively trains new employees and helps assist Juniors on the Team
• Creates new templates for sets and characters
• Works closely with the Art Director and Supervisors to achieve a high level of visual qualify on developing looks
• Assists with asset finaling (turnarounds for characters and set renders)
• Assists the team with lighting/compositing issues as they arise
• Works with pipeline to fix any technical issues
• Proactively fills the Supervisors duties if he is away or sick including; assigning shots, checking assets, filling in at dallies/scrums, other important meetings, and client calls
• Constantly communicates with production

- ICON Creative Studio is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

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  Ask us about our generous benefits program.