Character Supervisor
Role Summary
Dimension are looking for a ‘Character Producer’ to join the production team, and help us deliver industry leading digital humans. Utilising our 3 capture studios for volumetric video and avatar, and working with our growing team of character artists, you’ll be leading projects for some of the world’s most respected brands and entertainment studios, creating characters that span mixed reality performances, immersive experiences, metaverse content, and film and TV. This is a truly exciting role sitting within our current team of 3 producers, a PC, and a PA, reporting directly into the Senior Producer and HOP.
This position will require you to manage the production process through pitching, data capture, to final delivery. You’ll ideally have on set experience, have proven experience managing clients through complex productions, and be familiar with industry standard processes around animation, avatars, and 3D assets, within either the games or VFX industry.
You’ll need excellent leadership, organisational and problem solving skills – as well as the ability to work strategically across multiple deliveries. You’ll be the first point of contact on every aspect of the post production process, reporting directly into the Senior Producer and HOP.
Responsibilities
Create pitch documentation, to include budgets, Schedules, and SOW’s.
Manage multiple projects from pre-production to delivery, ensuring production pipelines are carried out effectively on all projects.
An in depth technical understanding of our character pipelines (training on specifics to be provided).
Hold sprint planning and sprint review sessions.
Run dailies with artists and animators, tracking progress throughout the life of your projects.
Ensure projects are well documented and offer visibility across the team of artists and management.
Working closely with the On Set Services team to ensure capture days run smoothly.
Track resources against budget.
Creation of cost reports.
Manage and interface with clients and partners
Communicate and mitigate any project risks or issues with the Senior Producer and other appropriate team members
Effectively manage project-based staffing needs and budget plans
Ensure the high quality standards and expectations of the Dimension studio are met across all projects
Requirements
You are highly self-motivated and collaborative
You are constantly striving to learn and improve your skills
You can effectively communicate with artists, programmers and other team members
Desirable experience / skills
5yrs experience as a Producer within a relevant industry
Proven experience putting pitch docs together
A good understanding of 3D pipelines (preferably for the creation of digital humans), and 3D file formats
On set experience
Experience within a post production or gaming production environment
Knowledge of animation pipelines inc mo-cap
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