🏢 Company: Blue Zoo Animation Studio
🇬🇧 Location: United Kingdom
🌎 Work Model: On-Site
About The Role
Our Senior Keys Artists are wonderful visual storytellers. They define the mood and atmosphere of our narratives, and highlight the charming details of our characters, props and environments. They are the savants of light, colour and creative problem solving.
Day To Day
Your day-to-day will focus on creating the lighting of our episodes, finessing the colours in compositing, whilst always maintaining the right balance between the highest quality and meeting deadlines.
About You
Must Have:
Knowledge of lighting principles and how light is used to meet a creative brief, especially in stylised animationTechnical understanding of biased rendering to optimise sampling, making your renders efficient and avoiding noise and artefacts.
Bonus Points
Knowledge of Python scriptingExperience using FTrackKnowledge of shadingUnderstanding of a 3D production pipeline
About Us
Blue Zoo is a leading animation studio in the UK, with a world-class reputation as the go-to place for creating bold, fun and characterful animation. Established in London in 2000, the studio has grown to become the largest dedicated CG animation studio in the UK, picking up a shelf full of BAFTAs, an Annie and an Emmy along the way!
What We’ve Got For You
Winner of Broadcast Best Places to Work in TV 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024 & 2025.Inclusive self-funded shorts programme.Many fun in person and remote social events throughout the year.