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About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design and develop the visual style for all costumes on a film by understanding the Director’s overall vision for the story, character development, and visual tone
- Partner with other art leadership (Production Designers, Art Directors, and Lead Character Designers) to ensure world, characters, and costumes are cohesive and elevate overall storytelling
- Drive costume research in support of the films vision and provide findings to the broader team
- Visually explore research by pitching, iterating, adapting, and designing
- Create multiple iterations of each main character’s costume from rough pass to final design and use these iterations to later inform all other costumes from secondary, tertiary, and crowds
- Provide and share expertise on clothing styles, fabrics, fabrication techniques, and patterns to align with the narratives, character, and show designs
- Art Direct asset building teams to fulfil costume pipeline
- Oversee Costume Design Assistants; distribute assignments, make corrections, give notes, track delivery dates and production deadlines, and overall be a teacher and mentor
- Teach Costume Design Assistants and Visual Development Artists how to prepare detailed costume packets for downstream CG departments by instilling clarity on required information such as pattern cuttings, fabric swatches, draping, texture, color, silhouette, and pattern design
- Champion a positive, collaborative, and inclusive team culture within the larger Production and Art team that promotes professionalism, creativity, and continuous improvement
- Creative problem solving
- Involvement in hiring and mentoring of costume design crew
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8+ years of experience working as a visual development artist on animated projects and 1+ years working on costume designs in visual development, theater, live action, or related field
- Education in Fashion Design, Costume Design, Toy Design, or Art preferred
- Self-starter and organizer with the ability to drive all production needs keeping mind production pipeline and deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to prepare detailed costume packets for downstream animation departments that inform final design execution
- Knowledge of and ability to teach costume terminology, methods, practices, and techniques such as textiles, fabric properties, and garment construction including pattern making and draping
- Proficiency in drawing (including human and animal anatomy), design, perspective, composition, painting, lighting and color theory
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop
- Experience working hands-on with fabrics
- Previous experience leading a team
- Requirement to be, or become, a member in good standing of the Animation Guild (Local 839)
Benefits
Comp & perks- 🌐 Worldwide ❌ Jobs You've Hidden ⭐️ Saved Jobs ✅ Applied Jobs ✉️ Email Alerts 👤 Account Skydance Website LinkedIn All Job Openings 201 - 500 employees Founded 2010 📱 Media Media
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- Television Skydance is a media company engaged in the production of films, television series, and interactive media. It streams its content on various platforms, including Apple TV+, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and HBO Max. Skydance is involved in creating trailers and teasers for its productions, including high-profile series and movies like 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning', 'Foundation', 'Reacher', and others. The company has also expanded into areas such as sports content with 'Hard Knocks' and diversified its offerings with animated films and interactive new media. Skydance emphasizes maintaining an active presence on social media to keep audiences informed about its latest projects and releases. Costume Designer 🔥 1 hour ago 🏢🏡 Santa Monica – Hybrid ⏰ Full Time 🟠 Senior 🔴 Lead ✍️ Designer Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume for this job Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
- Design and develop the visual style for all costumes on a film by understanding the Director’s overall vision for the story, character development, and visual tone
- Partner with other art leadership (Production Designers, Art Directors, and Lead Character Designers) to ensure world, characters, and costumes are cohesive and elevate overall storytelling
- Drive costume research in support of the films vision and provide findings to the broader team
- Visually explore research by pitching, iterating, adapting, and designing
- Create multiple iterations of each main character’s costume from rough pass to final design and use these iterations to later inform all other costumes from secondary, tertiary, and crowds
- Provide and share expertise on clothing styles, fabrics, fabrication techniques, and patterns to align with the narratives, character, and show designs
- Art Direct asset building teams to fulfil costume pipeline
- Oversee Costume Design Assistants; distribute assignments, make corrections, give notes, track delivery dates and production deadlines, and overall be a teacher and mentor
- Teach Costume Design Assistants and Visual Development Artists how to prepare detailed costume packets for downstream CG departments by instilling clarity on required information such as pattern cuttings, fabric swatches, draping, texture, color, silhouette, and pattern design
- Champion a positive, collaborative, and inclusive team culture within the larger Production and Art team that promotes professionalism, creativity, and continuous improvement
- Creative problem solving
- Involvement in hiring and mentoring of costume design crew 🎯 Requirements
- 8+ years of experience working as a visual development artist on animated projects and 1+ years working on costume designs in visual development, theater, live action, or related field
- Education in Fashion Design, Costume Design, Toy Design, or Art preferred
- Self-starter and organizer with the ability to drive all production needs keeping mind production pipeline and deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to prepare detailed costume packets for downstream animation departments that inform final design execution
- Knowledge of and ability to teach costume terminology, methods, practices, and techniques such as textiles, fabric properties, and garment construction including pattern making and draping
- Proficiency in drawing (including human and animal anatomy), design, perspective, composition, painting, lighting and color theory
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop
- Experience working hands-on with fabrics
- Previous experience leading a team
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Hard Skills & Tools
costume designvisual developmentdrawingdesignperspectivecompositionpaintinglightingcolor theorypattern making
Soft Skills
creative problem solvingself-starterorganizermentoringcollaborationteachingleadershipcommunicationteam culture promotioncontinuous improvement
Certifications
Animation Guild membership