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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Flying Bark Productions is a dynamic and innovative animation studio dedicated to pushing the boundaries of character animation and storytelling. We are working on exciting projects such as Avatar: The Last Airbender feature film, Netflix's Ghostbusters animated series and Stranger Things animated series as well as upcoming feature film, Zac Power.</span></span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About the role:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Work closely with the creative Supervisors to establish and drive the look and animation of the visual FX for the series;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Lead and produce scene specific and/or reusable 3D effects for the Program/s that fulfils the creative standards of the project as advised by the creative Supervisor/s;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Direct, inspire and mentor all crew assigned to the effects department;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Carry out regular performance management with effects crew, guided by the Producer;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Review work daily and provide clear feedback to the crew to ensure that the creative and technical requirements for the Program is maintained;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Direct and maintain an effects library in order to set the style and benchmark of the series as well as aid in reusing as much as possible to maintain efficiency;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Clearly understand the creative requirements of the Program and help develop workflows and techniques that will ensure that these requirements are met;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Work to deadlines as briefed by the Production crew, ensuring that any pressure points in the schedule are planned for;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Work with relevant Production Coordinator/s to inform and establish shots ready for Animation Supervisor/s review and to ensure that the status of each shot is known, allowing them to track the progression of shots;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Lookdev of effects to explore and establish new effects.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Generation of compatible caches to export into various software including Katana, Maya, Houdini and Nuke;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Rendering effects as show compatible image format elements to insert into comp;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Effects to include the full range of customary CG effects including particles, fluids, destruction and also particle systems to drive crowd cycle paths;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Establishment of successful working relationships with key members of production and crew.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About you:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Be able to work within a team and maintain good team dynamics;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Ability to problem solve and predict potential problems with assigned tasks;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Ability to self manage and complete tasks within production deadlines;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Communicate and seek information when necessary;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Be adaptable, flexible and responsive to changes;</span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Experience producing effects using Maya;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Proficient in Houdini;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Ability to comp in Nuke;</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Experience using Katana for rendering.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">What do we do?</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Flying Bark Productions is a renowned independent producer of family-focused animation entertainment. 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