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



