Responsibilities: “What would you say you do here?”

• Establish character blocking, camera positioning, and animate camera movement.

• Build an animatic interpretation of the story reel.

• Ensure that the vision of the Director and Art Director are incorporated into the film where possible.

• Work with existing storyboards, recreate and/or enhance story through cinematic layout of shots.

• May create rough pre-visualization models and environments to facilitate animatic work.

• Collaborate with the Editorial department to incorporate materials and animatic work into the production reel.

• Help guide the pre-visualization and layout work flow, tool and pipeline development with input and testing.

• Pre-visualize the look of the film - characters, locations, effects, look - in collaboration with the Art Department.

• Pre-visualize and layout sequences of shots that convey the story based on storyboards, story reel, and/or script pages.

• Model, surface, and rig pre-visualization and layout models, characters, environments, and effects.

• Optimize assets and scenes for real time interactive playback.

• Plan and prepare motion capture and camera capture sessions.

• Active participant at virtual shoots capturing motion capture data.

• Active participant at camera capture session capturing camera motion.

• Work in pre-visualization and layout on lighting, effects, rough character animation/blocking, camera motion, and rough editing.

• Motion edit motion capture and keyframe animation of characters.

• Deliver shot data to Final Layout Department that meet the need of production.