Bardel Entertainment

3D Artist

• Create engaging, high-quality character animation for feature film promotional content.
• Deliver expressive performances with strong acting, timing, weight, and appeal.
• Interpret storyboards, layouts, and animation direction to produce polished final shots.
• Collaborate with the Animation Director and other departments to ensure animation supports the creative vision.
• Incorporate feedback quickly while maintaining quality and meeting production deadlines.
• Help maintain consistency in character performance and animation style across all assigned shots.

Senior Character Animator – Feature Animation

Artist

• Handle lighting and rendering of CG shots and images
• Create and modify lighting scenes in Katana
• Set up AOVs in RenderMan
• Ensure continuity between shots within a sequence
• Work with supervisors and leads to achieve the correct look in the composite
• Composite shots to achieve the final look in Nuke
• Project matte paintings onto cards or geometry in Nuke
• Work with the matte painting supervisor and understand what the DMP (Digital Matte Painting) department produces and how to use it
• Optimize RenderMan render settings to achieve the cleanest and fastest output on the render farm
• Troubleshoot Katana files for technical issues
• Communicate issues and raise blockers to the lead or supervisor for timely resolution
• Participate in reviews requested by the Supervisor and Director, demonstrating analytical and proactive thinking
• Check the quality of your render layers to ensure correct output for compositing
• Maintain the production schedule and shot quotas provided by the production coordinator using the Shotgun dashboard
• Organize work and prepare dailies for review
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication and a collaborative, supportive approach when working with team members
• Mentor and provide support to junior artists, offering guidance and instruction

Lighting Artist – Featurette

System Administrator

• Design, deploy, and maintain Linux and Windows Server environments in production settings
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of infrastructure supporting production pipelines
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex systems issues and outages
• Contribute to infrastructure planning, lifecycle management, and modernization initiatives
• Design, manage, and maintain firewall and network security configurations
• Implement and enforce security best practices, access controls, and segmentation
• Partner with security stakeholders to support compliance, auditing, and client security requirements
• Identify and remediate infrastructure security risks
• Design and operate enterprise storage solutions (on-prem and cloud-based)
• Own backup, disaster recovery, and restore processes
• Ensure data integrity, availability, and performance for production workloads
• Regularly validate backup and recovery procedures
• Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters in on-prem and cloud environments
• Support and maintain containerized services used by pipeline, infrastructure, and internal platforms
• Implement best practices for container security, networking, scaling, and monitoring
• Collaborate with Pipeline and Development teams to optimize container-based workflows
• Serve as a technical lead and subject matter expert for systems and infrastructure
• Establish standards, documentation, and operational procedures
• Mentor and support other Systems Administrators
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Pipeline, Security, and Production teams

Lead Systems Administrator

• Combine multiple layers of animation, visual effects, lighting passes, and background elements to create a cohesive image.
• Balance color, light, and depth to ensure visual consistency across shots and sequences.
• Troubleshoot technical issues such as edge inconsistencies, motion blur, and artifact cleanup.
• Collaborate with departments such as Lighting, FX, and Rendering to identify and resolve shot-specific challenges.
• Use compositing software to add depth, atmosphere, and enhancements such as lens effects, color grading, and motion blur.
• Make creative adjustments to ensure the director’s vision is realized in every shot.
• Work closely with the Compositing Supervisor and other team members to align with artistic direction and technical standards.
• Provide feedback to upstream departments (e.g., Modeling, Lighting, FX) to improve workflow efficiency.
• Organize and manage all compositing assets, including file-naming conventions and proper archiving.
• Maintain high standards for file organization and version control.

Compositing Artist – Feature Animation

Supervisor

• Supervise the lighting teams to achieve the desired visual style for the animation project.
• Ensure and maintain lighting quality and consistency across all shots of the film.
• Collaborate with the CG Supervisor to assess the technical feasibility of designs, proposing production-appropriate solutions while respecting the director's vision and the project's technical constraints.
• Consult with the Director and CG Supervisor to assign tasks to artists based on their skills, strengths, and experience, optimizing workflow and creativity.
• Regularly review artists' work, provide feedback, and approve shots for submission to the Director.
• Lead and guide the lighting teams to achieve the desired look, balancing artistic requirements with productivity and budgetary constraints, in collaboration with production management.
• Solve complex technical and creative lighting challenges, ensuring high-quality results that support storytelling and emotional impact.
• Manage shot continuity and maintain visual consistency between sequences, ensuring the film's visual identity is preserved.
• Work with production management to ensure the team meets schedule and budget, making adjustments as needed to meet deadlines.
• Develop and oversee the lighting and compositing workflow, resource requirements, methodologies, tools, schedules, and work assignments.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation for the team and other supervisors.
• Keep the team informed of project updates and developments.
• Initiate procedures and tools to optimize production.
• Serve as the primary liaison for interdepartmental communication.
• Provide constructive feedback to each artist on their performance.
• Actively participate in the recruitment and selection process for new artists.

Senior Character Animator – Feature Animation

Lighting Artist – Featurette

Lead Systems Administrator

Compositing Artist – Feature Animation

Lighting Supervisor – Featurette