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Jobs: Nickelodeon seeks Background Painter- Wallykazam

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Title: Background Painter- Wallykazam
Req ID: 5993
Candidate Search:Location: Burbank, CA
Candidate Search:Brands: Nickelodeon

Description
Summary:Paints backgrounds, layouts and any other background-related art that the production may require, ensuring style and quality of show is met.

Responsibilities:

  • Meet with creative supervisor(s) to ensure color needs of show are fulfilled.
  • Follow instructions of supervisor.
  • Complete all color work within assigned deadlines.
  • Resolve color problems with creative supervisors.
  • Ensure all deadlines are met.
  • Communicate progress of work to appropriate production staff.
  • Ensure all artwork is properly backed up and stored appropriately.
  • Ensure all shipping materials are prepared and ready on time.
  • Be available for questions until your department’s shipment is complete.
  • Review storyboard for background key color callouts.

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Assist with special projects.
  • Fulfill other color projects, including but not limited to color lead sheets, color script and/or color pass on storyboards.
  • If applicable, scan backgrounds and adjust digitally as necessary.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Must demonstrate proficiency in style of show.
  • Strong knowledge of color theory and lighting.
  • Knowledge of or willingness to learn applicable color software and hardware.
  • Strong time-management skills.
  • Work well under pressure.
  • Ability to multitask a plus.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Digital color experience desired.
  • BA/BS or equivalent work experience highly desired.

You can apply for the Nickelodeon background Artist position here.

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Jobs: Background Designer- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Nickelodeon is seeking a Background Designer for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Details below.

Description
Summary:
Generates background designs, overlays, underlays, shadow and color guides, floor plans  and any other background-related art that the production may require, ensuring style and quality of show is met.Responsibilities:

  • Review script for backgrounds needed at handout of show.
  • Complete all rough, revised and final designs necessary within assigned deadlines.
  • Resolve design problems with creative supervisors.
  • Ensure all deadlines are met.
  • Communicate progress of work to appropriate production staff.
  • Ensure all artwork is properly backed up and saved appropriately.
  • Ensure all shipping materials are prepared and ready on time.
  • Be available for questions until your department’s shipment is complete.
  • If required, generate multiple views of environment and specific elements within it.

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Assist with special projects.
  • If applicable, make special shadow and color indications.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Must demonstrate proficiency in style of show.
  • Strong background design skills.
  • Relevant drawing experience necessary.
  • Thorough understanding of perspective.
  • Knowledge of or willingness to learn applicable design software and hardware.
  • Strong time-management skills.
  • Work well under pressure.
  • Ability to multitask a plus.

Desired Qualifications:

  • BA in Fine Arts or equivalent work experience highly desired.

HOW TO APPLY
You MUST submit a portfolio in order to be considered for artistic positions!

Online Portfolio Instructions:
Do you have a website/blog you’d like us to review as your portfolio submission? If so, please be sure to upload your resume and website link in the online application process. Please include the website link on your resume. You MUST upload the portfolio release form to your application. You can add additional attachments in the resume section.

To download the form, please go to: http://nas.nick.com/SubmissionReleaseForm.pdf

You can apply here.
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Kevin Sullivan

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Kevin Sullivan Staff Writer for Fairly Oddparents & TUFF Puppy.

 
What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I worked at Walt Disney Imagineering for years. I started as an assistant. On my first day, the show producer I was working for asked me to get him a helicopter. He was making a film for one of the parks, but he didn’t want the helicopter for that; he wanted it to take him home to Saugus so he could skip the traffic on the 5 freeway. Before that, I was a Production Assistant on the Academy Awards, and spent Oscar night in a tux in the green room, hanging with celebrities and holding their Oscars. That was a super fun job.

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I am super proud of everything – I think all of Butch Hartman’s shows for Nick are a blast and I am proud to have been a part of them. For me, I’d say I’m most proud of TUFF Puppy. I think it’s not only funny, but really clever and smart, too. But FOP and Danny Phantom were where I really learned to write animation so I’ll always hold a special place for both shows. FOP has a zaniness I never get tired of. And I’d never written action before Danny Phantom, so that was a learning curve. I went from writing too vague sequences like “Danny and the Box Ghost fight” to descriptive paragraphs so overwritten I hold the record for the longest single script of Danny Phantom ever written. (And yes, I’m proud of that, too…)

 

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I grew up in Connecticut, and studied communications at Gannon University in Erie, PA. I moved to LA with my college roommate. He got here two months before I did, but Continue reading

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Gabe Swarr

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Gabe Swarr and I am the Supervising Producer/Director of “Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness” at Nickelodeon.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
I was a bus boy and sandwich artist at Subway.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
El Tigre, Dexter’s Lab, Kung Fu Panda, Yo Gabba Gabba, Ren and Stimpy

How did you become interested in animation?
Ever since I was a kid I watched every cartoon on TV. When I made a little flip book in my reading book I was Continue reading

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News: Nickelodeon Shorts Program

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Nickelodeon is doing another shorts program! A number of great shows have come out of ther shorts programs; Fairly Odd Parents, Fanboy and Chum Chum and Adventure Time to name a few.

According to the site:

Animated shorts must be: comedic, character driven, and have kid appeal. We look for ideas that feature an original, funny lead character – with about 2 or 3 characters in total. Be prepared to show either through designs, thumbnail storyboards or script, how funny and unique your characters are.

You can read more about the Nickelodeon Shorts program at the link below.

http://signup.viacom.com/NickShortsPitches/NickShortsPitchSubmission.aspx

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Hayley Dwan

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What is your name and your current occupation?
My name is Hayley Dwan. I currently work as a full time print and designer of t-shirts and hoodies at yourdesign.co.uk. In my spare time I do freelance animation and illustration work, hoping to one day fully break into the animation industry.

 

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
The only other job that I’ve had apart from my current occupation was as a dispenser in a pharmacy….not so crazy I know! I’ve always quite fancied wearing a pizza box to advertise dominoes or something though!

 

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I think during work experience at companies like Milky Tea and Factory Trans media. I was so grateful to be given the opportunity to be a part of their projects such as advertising campaigns, character designs for series pitches and storyboard work. I learnt so much from these companies and working within the studio, therefore my finished pieces of work where something I was very proud of!

How did you become interested in animation?
I’ve always loved cartoons (and still do…..I’m a big kid!) I think it was from age 8 that I began my love for drawing. I would draw everything I could see! I would sit in front of the tv and draw characters from the cartoons. I then began keeping my own little books of characters I had created and little stories to go with them. When I discovered

 

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