Jobs

At Snipple we are always looking to add creative, ambitious and fun loving people to our team. Here is a list of the positions currently open, if you fit any of these roles, please apply here.

Head of IT

Experience

  • 8+ Years

Qualification

  • BE /Graduate

Job Description

  • Experience in planning, building and managing large IT Infrastructure projects. More than 100 servers, enterprise storage and network.
  • Experience Handling Higher Data Centre, understanding of the power ,cooling,security,design requirement in DC
  • Minimum of 4 years of experience in architecting, implementing, managing Enterprise Storage Solutions like HP/IBM/Hitachi enterprise class.
  • Minimum of 4 years of experience managing enterprise SAN and LAN network infrastructure, Network Core switches, Brocade San Switches etc.
  • Experience in HPC, Large scale server management, linux and Open source installations.
  • Responsible for assisting production in defining, positioning, solutioning, designing and integrating IT solutions based on the requirements.
  • Experience in Computer Graphics (CG) technologies, Broadcast, Grading suites, application will be an added advantage.
  • Managing a team of 8 to 12 with various core technical expertise.
  • Identify and evaluate tools and applications relevant for the company
  • Ability to contribute strategically and be a key contributor to the company's growth plan.
  • Work with other members of the production, management team in designing and implementing efficient workflow processes
  • Makes recommendations for new equipment and services to purchase and works with various vendors for procurement.
  • Strong sense of information security policies and practices

2D Animator

2D Animators with a strong knowledge of Toonboom Harmony with an experience of 1+years and Adobe Flash with an experience of 4+years, Basic character modeling knowledge is a plus. In this position, you will be responsible for providing key animation and completing all in between animation along with incorporating animation supervisor, director and producer notes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Creating poses and walk cycles for animation in Toonboom Harmony
  • Doing in between animation for all assigned scenes in Toonboom Harmony
  • Incorporate all notes from Animation Supervisor, Producers, and Director
  • Provide creative ideas and work in a team environment under strict deadlines
  • Work closely with layout, design, animation and all members of the production team to create a unique show

Requirements

  • Must have Harmony and Adobe Flash experience.
  • Harmony and Adobe Flash experience on a children’s TV show with a known company or equivalent is a plus
  • Strong animation and life drawing skills conveying emotions and actions
  • Degree or diploma from an accredited animation school or program
  • Strong work ethic and team player
  • Familiarity with Adobe drawing products is a plus

Senior Modeler

Job Profile

  • Work with creative and technical leads to create character and set for the production
  • Fundamental knowledge of modeling both organic and non-organic characters and sets
  • Attention to detail and observation skills
  • Work closely with other disciplines to determinate character technical specifications
  • Handle technical aspects of character and sets creation such as pipeline concerns, assets built with optimum efficiency and asset integration

Experience/Qualifications required

  • Proficiency in Maya
  • A good sense of form, scale and proportion
  • Ability to work with z-brush desired
  • Attention to high quality anatomical details
  • Experience in creating blend shapes/morph targets
  • Total years of industry experience: 4-5
  • Years of experience as Senior Modeler: 2-3

Senior Surfacing Artist

Job Profile

  • Work with creative and technical leads to surface character and set for the production
  • Excellent understanding of efficient texturing processes
  • Work with other modelers, Riggers and other CG artists to create assets and all dependencies
  • Photorealistic texturing for characters and assets
  • Attention to detail and observation skills

Experience/Qualification required

  • Proficiency in Maya
  • In-depth knowledge of occlusion, shadow, reflection, hdri, normal,specular, bump, displacement etc
  • Total years of industry experience: 4-5
  • Years of experience as Surfacing artist: 2-3

Skills required

  • Ability to work collaboratively
  • Good communication skills
  • Excellent Photoshop skills
  • Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Senior Rigging Artist

Job Profile

  • Set-up and rigging of character models
  • Knowledge of animation sharing and motion capture transfer between character rigs
  • Design user interfaces and controls for character and facial animation systems (bone and blend shape driven)
  • Work with animators to design, create and maintain animation rigs to characters that are clean, efficient and animation friendly

Experience/Qualification required

  • Proficiency in Maya
  • Excellent knowledge of skeletal and deformation system
  • Excellent understanding of anatomy and motion
  • Total years of industry experience: 5-7
  • Years of experience as Senior Rigger: 2-3

Skills required

  • Ability to work collaboratively
  • Proficiency in muscle deformation system
  • Having knowledge of MEL scripting will be an added advantage
  • Good communication skills
  • Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Senior 3D Animator

Job Profile

  • In-depth knowledge of classic animation principles ( staging, timing, anticipation, follow through etc)
  • Responsible for driving the animation on schedule by balancing artistic and productivity requirements in tandem with production management

Experience/Qualification required

  • Excellent experience and knowledge of Maya
  • Must have an extremely creative and critical eye for guiding the quality animation
  • Total years of industry experience: 4-5
  • Years of experience as Senior Animator: 2-3

Skills required

  • Ability to work collaboratively
  • Good communication skills
  • Proven storytelling skills
  • Ability to use acting skills
  • Well versed in the principles of animation
  • Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Senior 2D Animator

Job Profile

  • In-depth knowledge of classic animation principles ( staging, timing, anticipation, follow through etc)
  • Superior conceptual art skills
  • Ability to rapidly illustrate concepts based on verbal and written descriptions
  • In-depth knowledge of Photoshop
  • Strong traditional art skills
  • Self-motivated with a strong work ethic

Experience/Qualification required

  • Experience in both 2D and 3D mediums and asset
  • Must have an extremely creative and critical eye for guiding the quality of animation
  • Total years of industry experience: 4-5
  • Years of experience as Senior Animator: 2-3

Skills required

  • Ability to work collaboratively
  • Good communication skills
  • Proven storytelling skills
  • Ability to use acting skills
  • Well versed in the principles of animation
  • Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Senior Finishing Artist

Job Profile

  • Responsible for final 3D scene assembly and rendering of elements required to complete shots
  • Optimize and troubleshoot lighting, rendering and compositing problems in a fast paced environment
  • Will build and maintain the suite of lighting tools

Experience/Qualification required

  • Proficiency in Maya
  • Experience in shot lighting and rendering
  • Should posses a high level of lighting, rendering and compositing skills
  • Separation of scene objects for external composition
  • Total years of industry experience: 5-7
  • Years of experience as Senior Finishing Artist: 2-3

Skills required

  • Ability to work collaboratively
  • Good communication skills
  • Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions

Production Manager

Job Profile

  • Manage the day-to-day operation of the production including crew schedule, production scheduling, tracking and budgeting of man weeks
  • Responsible for ensuring the production goals, quotas and schedule parameters are projected, analyzed and rearranged as required
  • The Production Manager may manage the Assistant Production Managers and/or Production Coordinators( if applicable) to maintain the proper amount of resources throughout the production’s various departments
  • Work with the Production Accountant to monitor production staff turnout and approve production staff requested for time off ( if applicable)

Experience/Qualification required

  • Experience in both form of animation, traditional 2D and 3D animation production experience
  • Proficient in MS Office suites including Excel and Word
  • Animation related scheduling and budgeting
  • Prepare and distribute weekly production reports to all applicable people
  • Total years of industry experience: 5-7
  • Years of experience as Production Manager: 3-4

Skills required

  • Work with Producer to define roles and a communication plan for the production team
  • Indentify production issues and proactively loopback this information to production
  • Help to achieve and balance creative and operational goals of the project
  • Proven track record of successfully working in a supervisory capacity on several productions