Art Director

This is a Full Time Job

Art Director (FTC)

This role reports onsite in our London office.

The Role:

Moonbug is seeking an Art Director responsible for the visual style of a 2D animated series and related marketing materials.

The successful candidate will be responsible for communicating the vision of the show design to all relevant crew/vendors and oversee the development and execution of all the shows visual assets ensuring their consistency and quality that meets or exceeds Moonbugs expectations

Responsibilities:
• Oversees and provides approvals of artwork, providing thoughtful feedback, as well as drawovers if necessary to external vendor pre-production stakeholders.
• Generates or oversees the generation of artwork in areas of specialisation which may include character, environment, props, textures, mood, lighting, and story concepts, or any material which clarifies creative intent.
• Accountable for; on time, on-budget execution, and delivery of all design assets.
• Communicates with senior production leadership to ensure designs fall on schedule and within scope.
• Demonstrates that they clearly understand all design elements of the project,
• Provides leadership to their team inspiring and motivating them,
• Works with the Producer to keep the project on budget and on schedule.
• Determines how best to represent a concept visually.
• Develops and maintains the overall look of the series as well as related content.
• Reviews and provides notes/ approvals in a clear and timely fashion
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Requirements:
• 7 years of experience within animation and visual development/production design.
• Must have significant animation CG art direction experience in either/both short form or/and long form.
• Extensive art direction experience in the children's media space, ideally preschool content.
• Keen eye for creating appealing designs for young audiences.
• Leadership experience and well-developed teamwork skills.
• Proven leader of teams and developer of people.
• A problem solver; able to foresee issues and strategise and execute solutions.
• Extremely organized, motivated, adaptable and personable, with a diverse skill set.