Description:
Role & responsibilities of a 2D Artist:
Have a chance to work on the following areas:
- Liaising with writers, directors, and clients regarding the style, method, and execution of the animation to be produced
- Develop storyboards based on the script
- Designing frames and characters
- Choosing color palettes, style, and general look of the animation
- Establishing artwork for the backgrounds and layouts
- Setting up exposure sheets, divided into actions and timing, dialogues and music, animation layers, backgrounds, view perspective
- Drawing rough sketches and animate
- Illustrating keyframes and producing inbetweening
- Inking, coloring, and clean-ups
- Integrating images, characters, etc into background graphics
- Syncing visuals with audio and voiceover tracks
- Preparing all animation elements for compositing, including delivering in set formats
- Enhancing animation with special effects at the post-production stage
Skills:
- Training in 2D animation, both cell & computer graphics
- Ability to visualize abstract concepts
- Experience with storyboarding, clean ups & layout design
- Drawing ability, an artistic mindset
- Visual storytelling
- Ability to draw in a variety of styles & genres
- Familiarity with a range of animation software & techniques