CG Supervisor - Animation

Description

Purpose of Position

The CG Supervisor, in collaboration with the Team Leads and Studio Manager determines the technical approach needed to achieve the desired look and behavior of assets using computer graphics.

The CG Supervisor works with the Producers to estimate project schedules and monitor project progress while ensuring that the assets are created, constructed, and structured to look the way the Creative team and Clients have determined. They are also responsible for all assets to function and move efficiently, throughout all the departments across the entire pipeline.

Core Competencies

Visionary
Inspirational
Strategic
Tactical
Focused
Persuasive
Likeable
Decisive
Ethical
Open to feedback

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

· Technical and creative head of all 2d and 3d operations, responsible for coordinating the efforts of 2d and 3d personnel as creatively, efficiently, and effectively as possible.

· Responsible for the task management and supervision of the Team Leads.

· Identify, define, prioritize, and implement specific creative and production workflow process steps which will enhance the artist’s tools.

· In conjunction with the team leads, responsible for the leadership of Artists in the production departments.

· Keep up on current technology trends and tools (hardware and software) that best suit the projects (and the company) in the development of a stronger creative technical environment. Establish new creative/technical workflow ideas and efficiencies while standardizing/automating repetitive functions which don’t add creative value. Identify specific workflow steps where automation would remove labor hours.

· Create, develop, and build consensus between Technology, Artists, and Production Management to assist the Clients to realize their vision.

· Work with Account Manager(s) & Sales team to formulate bids and time lines for projects.

· Develop a strategy for the successful integration of the studio’s skills/resources by implementing hardware and software and workflow solutions that best suit the needs of the projects.

· Help to develop and implement training programs to enhance skill sets within departments.

· Work with Studio Manager to define recruiting goals to achieve the appropriate balance of qualified personnel.

· Successfully manage the day-to-day project needs in a manner that instills trust and confidence from the Producer(s), Resource Specialist, and Studio Manager. This should include an effective process for communicating required staffing changes and judgments with some mechanism for planning, forecasting (and ultimately delivering on) potential staffing scenarios for anticipated work.

· Work with Technology, and Management to define and produce development goals. These goals should be based on the Creative, the pipeline, and workflow of the departments.

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