- Establish staging and camera positioning of scenes in a CG environment
- Collaborate with the Layout Supervisor to align cinematography with the director’s vision
- Interpret storyboards into 3D, offering solutions and pitching ideas to enhance the visual story
- Identify storytelling, staging, or technical issues early and propose effective solutions
- Take ownership of challenging shots and sequences, working independently while knowing when to seek direction
- Animate elements and characters for framing and story beats
- Collaborate with leadership, production, and team members to solve problems and share insights
- Engage in dailies, rounds, and team discussions to contribute to creative and technical improvements
- Adhere to pipeline workflows and technical requirements for seamless production integration
- Serve as a resource for other Layout Artists, sharing knowledge, techniques, and best practices
- Maintain consistent quality while meeting production needs
- Manage time effectively and work with production to stay on schedule
- Keep the team and production staff informed about progress, challenges, and solutions

Requirements

- Previous production experience as a Senior Layout Artist (or similar) in featurette/feature (long-form) animation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively communicate solutions, share knowledge, and incorporate feedback
- Strong understanding of 3D space, cameras, transforms, animation, and scene organization
- Understanding of cinematography principles including lens choice, focal length, perspective, depth, composition, camera motivation, and screen direction
- Ability to make thoughtful cinematographic choices that support character, emotion, pacing, and storytelling




- Maintain continuity of screen direction, eyelines, spatial relationships, camera language, and character geography across sequences
- Experience with editing software
- Strong time management skills
- Portfolio demonstrating varied sequences with strong cinematography, staging, camera placement, pacing, continuity, and visual storytelling
- Portfolio demonstrating solid camera animation skills, including motivated camera movement, dynamic framing, and purposeful composition
- Portfolio demonstrating ability to translate 2D storyboards, animatics, script pages, or director pitches into effective 3D scenes
- Portfolio demonstrating creative problem-solving and independent staging and camera decisions

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in 3D Layout Art, with a strong understanding of cinematography principles and the ability to translate 2D storyboards into effective 3D scenes. Proven ability to manage time effectively while maintaining high-quality production standards and collaborating with team members to enhance visual storytelling.

Highest-signal resume keywords

- 3D Layout Art
- Cinematography Principles
- Camera Animation Skills
- Creative Problem-Solving
- Time Management

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

- 3D Space Understanding
- Animation
- Scene Organization
- Camera Positioning
- Storyboarding Translation
- Editing Software Proficiency
- Visual Storytelling
- Camera Movement

Soft Skills

- Verbal Communication
- Written Communication
- Collaboration
- Independent Decision-Making
- Creative Thinking

Industry Keywords

- Featurette Animation
- Long-Form Animation
- Production Experience
- Pipeline Workflows
- Visual Storytelling Techniques

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📌 Senior Layout Artist – Featurette (Vancouver)
🏢 Jobtailor
📍 Vancouver