Director – The Amazing World of Gumball

Description

Director – The Amazing World of Gumball

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Cartoon Network is looking for an experienced Director to join us for Season 5 of THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL (40 x 11 minutes). 

The Director will be supporting the Series Director and the Show creator to deliver their vision for each episode throughout the production process.

The tasks associated with this role include but are not limited to:

• Storyboard Pitches – Once briefed by the Series Director you will be working with the storyboard team on each episode board to realise the script to the highest narrative and comedic level.

• Animatic Edit – Once briefed by the Series Director you will be working with the Editor to deliver an animatic of the episode maintaining the comedy and narrative intention of the episode.

• Technical Review – One the animatic has been locked you will attend the episodic Tech Review with the Series Director and all other Heads of Department to discuss and decide on the technical approach of each shot within the episode.

• Layout Reviews - To review the episode with the Layout Supervisor and approve the Layout maintaining the comedy and narrative intention of the episode.

• 2-D Reviews – To review the episode with the 2-D Supervisor and approve the animation maintaining the comedy and narrative intention of the episode.

• 3-D Reviews – To review the episode with the 3-D Supervisor and approve the animation maintaining the comedy and narrative intention of the episode.

• Background Reviews - To review the episode with the background Supervisor and Art Director and approve the backgrounds maintaining the comedy and narrative intention of the episode.

• Compositing Reviews – To review the episode with the compositing Supervisor and approve the episode.

The Series Director and Show Creator will have final sign off per episode.

As the show is complex we are looking for a director with experience in both 2-D and 3-D pipelines and with an eye for comedy in the 7-11 year age group.

Experience of working on long form TV series is required.

If you would like to apply for this role please submit your CV/Resume with link to showreel. 

Start date:      October 2015

Location:        LONDON