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Nine West needs help promoting their Fall fashion line by creating fun and engaging animations of the brand’s icon that tie back to their fashion stories for the Fall 2010 season. Your goal is to bring the current 9 design to life in a forward-thinking, cool way by incorporating this season’s trends into a 15-30 second animation. Creators are eligible to submit up to four animations, two for each theme (Animal, Utility). All work will be reviewed by the Creative Director of Nine West, Fred Allard and Nine West will purchase the five best animations. Additionally, the best work will be featured on the Nine West website.

We assure you we are not a typical “contest” and/or “crowdsourcing” site and make every effort possible to not exploit creators and solicit spec work. Email me, Mark (co-founder) at mark@tongal.com if you have any questions or want to talk.

For more info: http://tongal.com/ninewest

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Job Description

The 2D Facial Animator creates facial expressions, extremes and phonemes for  stop motion animated characters.  2D designs and animation need to convey emotion, movement, action and personality, specifically focusing on lip sync. This position requires a level of sophistication of technique on a feature film level.

Note: This position will be located on-site at our Studio in Oregon. When sending samples, include a demo reel with 2D Animation lip sync samples, as well as expression sheet and turnarounds.

Essential Job Functions

• Block in rough facial animation and phonemes for Director and/or Facial Animation Supervisor for their approval.
• Work with Director and/or Facial Animation Supervisor to finalize animation.
• Meet animation production deadlines as established by management.
• Create facial expressions and extremes conveying emotion, movement, action and personality.
• Read and break down dialogue tracks and plan shots.
• Work with Directors on creating teeth and skull designs.
• Work with Facial Animation Supervisor and Director of RP in making sure 2D animations fit within the Stop Motion pipeline

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant area of study or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years experience as a 2D Facial Animator in the entertainment industry.
• Experience working on a fully animated theatrically released Stop Motion and/or CG feature film a plus.
• Strong understanding of traditional animation principles.
• Ability to bring characters to life.
• Stop Motion animation experience a plus.

Via Escape Studios

Due to an increase in demand we are currently looking to add some Senior Maya Generalists to our freelancer database. Very competitive day rates are available.

To be considered please forward a link to your showreel and an up to date CV. To Apply:  Send your CV and Showreel to Escape Jobs or drop us a line if you would like more information.

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We work with some of the top studios in the world and understand better than anyone the challenges of resourcing a project.  And as one of the most successful CG academies in the world, we have one of the largest pools of CG and 3D talent. Which is why we are so successful at matching business requirements with the best talent out there.

If you are a studio looking for a CG artist, or if you are a professional seeking a new challenge, then why not contact us?