Storyboard Artist- Ink
$155,002–$155,002 year
On-siteLos Angeles, California, United States or Vancouver, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Collaborate with creative leadership to define staging, camera, and pacing, translating scripts into visual blueprints ranging from thumbnails to finalized panels. Pitch storyboards to leadership teams and brainstorm inventive beats to elevate story concepts. Proactively engage with hybrid workflows blending traditional and GenAI tools, driving look development and building templates to ensure production efficiency. Receive and incorporate feedback quickly while maintaining consistency with creative direction and sprint timelines. Deliver high-quality storyboards on schedule through effective problem-solving in a fluid, evolving production environment.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of storyboarding experience in animation, games, or digital media (feature, episodic, or high-end short‐form)
- Advanced working knowledge of digital drawing tools
- Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to deliver high-quality work on schedule in a fast-moving sprint-based environment
- Ability to take direction positively, collaborate across disciplines, and communicate clearly with creative, technical, and production partners
- A scrappy, builder's mindset with a high degree of independence, out-of-the-box application, and initiative as production support and workflows evolve alongside the creative process
- Demonstrated experience working in ambiguous environments where the core production pipeline is being built and rapidly iterated upon
- Comfortable taking big-picture approaches while willing to build new workflows in a fluid, evolving production environment
- Ability to provide upward, constructive feedback to leadership for improved scalability
Desired Qualifications
- experience with stylized or non‐photoreal work is a plus
- a portfolio that demonstrates extensive story experience for animated shorts, series, or features
- Storyboarding samples and/or credits demonstrating excellence and inspiration in cinematic sense, graphic storytelling, character development, composition, and editorial pacing
- Demonstrated and genuine interest in Generative AI imagery and video, with a proactive, hands-on approach to exploring new GenAI tools to enhance storytelling capabilities
- Traditional art, photography, or film background
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