🌟 Layout Supervisor: Job Description Rewrite 🌟
Company: Brown Bag Films (Part of 9 Story Media Group)
Location: Toronto Office
Position: Full-time Contract, Layout Supervisor
Reporting to: Production / Key Creative Team (Implied)
At Brown Bag Films, we live by our motto: “We Love Animation™.” We are looking for an experienced and passionate Layout Supervisor to lead, mentor, and inspire a Layout Team in our Toronto studio. This role is crucial for interpreting storyboards and visual development to create high-quality, production-ready environmental layouts for a 2D animated series.
🎯 Role Summary: Purpose & Deliverables
Purpose: To manage, mentor, and develop the Layout Team while overseeing the creation of all environmental layouts, ensuring they adhere to the project’s artistic vision, technical requirements, and production schedule.
Key Deliverables:
- Approved Background Layouts: Must be correct in perspective, scale, composition, and style for the animated production.
- Team Success: A well-functioning, developed, and motivated Layout Team.
Success Metrics:
- Layouts meet creative and managerial requirements within schedule.
- Timely approvals from the Art Director, Director, and Client.
- Demonstrable team development and sustainability.
✅ Key Responsibilities
1. Team Management & Mentorship:
- Leadership: Manage and develop the Layout Team, ensuring all drawings maintain the production’s style and quality.
- Feedback: Work one-on-one with Layout Artists, providing regular mentorship, clear direction, and constructive feedback.
- Communication: Effectively communicate production needs, artistic direction, and resolve technical or artistic questions.
- Morale: Foster an encouraging and engaging work environment and advocate for the team’s quality, morale, and schedule needs.
- Production Standard: Act as an exemplar by maintaining an inspiring quota of personal production work.
2. Production & Schedule Oversight:
- Tracking: Keep the layout production on schedule and track progress against goals and milestones (using tools like ShotGrid).
- Problem Solving: Anticipate and offer effective solutions for both technical and scheduling issues (e.g., managing sick days, missing assets).
- Collaboration: Partner with the Art Director and Director to solve complex technical challenges related to the visual environment.
3. Review & Approval (Quality Control):
- Review and/or approve final Layouts to ensure correct form, perspective, scale, layering, and readiness for BG paint.
- Approve and finalize Field Guides and Scaled Character Guides for use in scene planning and animation.
🔍 Essential Knowledge & Experience
| Category | Requirements |
| Knowledge | Strong artistic sensibility focused on environment design, composition, and perspective for animated productions. Strong understanding of the 2D animation pipeline. |
| Experience | Proven experience in Layout or environmental visual development for an animated TV series or feature film. Experience with asset tracking and workflow management software (e.g., ShotGrid). |
| Leadership | Prior leadership experience managing, mentoring, and providing effective feedback to teams in an animation environment, including forecasting project requirements. |
| Technical Skills | Expert proficiency in Adobe Photoshop. Strong fundamental drawing skills within an animation production environment. |
🌟 Layout Supervisor: Job Description Rewrite 🌟
Company: Brown Bag Films (Part of 9 Story Media Group)
Location: Toronto Office
Position: Full-time Contract, Layout Supervisor
Reporting to: Production / Key Creative Team (Implied)
At Brown Bag Films, we live by our motto: “We Love Animation™.” We are looking for an experienced and passionate Layout Supervisor to lead, mentor, and inspire a Layout Team in our Toronto studio. This role is crucial for interpreting storyboards and visual development to create high-quality, production-ready environmental layouts for a 2D animated series.
🎯 Role Summary: Purpose & Deliverables
Purpose: To manage, mentor, and develop the Layout Team while overseeing the creation of all environmental layouts, ensuring they adhere to the project’s artistic vision, technical requirements, and production schedule.
Key Deliverables:
- Approved Background Layouts: Must be correct in perspective, scale, composition, and style for the animated production.
- Team Success: A well-functioning, developed, and motivated Layout Team.
Success Metrics:
- Layouts meet creative and managerial requirements within schedule.
- Timely approvals from the Art Director, Director, and Client.
- Demonstrable team development and sustainability.
✅ Key Responsibilities
1. Team Management & Mentorship:
- Leadership: Manage and develop the Layout Team, ensuring all drawings maintain the production’s style and quality.
- Feedback: Work one-on-one with Layout Artists, providing regular mentorship, clear direction, and constructive feedback.
- Communication: Effectively communicate production needs, artistic direction, and resolve technical or artistic questions.
- Morale: Foster an encouraging and engaging work environment and advocate for the team’s quality, morale, and schedule needs.
- Production Standard: Act as an exemplar by maintaining an inspiring quota of personal production work.
2. Production & Schedule Oversight:
- Tracking: Keep the layout production on schedule and track progress against goals and milestones (using tools like ShotGrid).
- Problem Solving: Anticipate and offer effective solutions for both technical and scheduling issues (e.g., managing sick days, missing assets).
- Collaboration: Partner with the Art Director and Director to solve complex technical challenges related to the visual environment.
3. Review & Approval (Quality Control):
- Review and/or approve final Layouts to ensure correct form, perspective, scale, layering, and readiness for BG paint.
- Approve and finalize Field Guides and Scaled Character Guides for use in scene planning and animation.
🔍 Essential Knowledge & Experience
| Category | Requirements |
| Knowledge | Strong artistic sensibility focused on environment design, composition, and perspective for animated productions. Strong understanding of the 2D animation pipeline. |
| Experience | Proven experience in Layout or environmental visual development for an animated TV series or feature film. Experience with asset tracking and workflow management software (e.g., ShotGrid). |
| Leadership | Prior leadership experience managing, mentoring, and providing effective feedback to teams in an animation environment, including forecasting project requirements. |
| Technical Skills | Expert proficiency in Adobe Photoshop. Strong fundamental drawing skills within an animation production environment. |
💖 Why Join Brown Bag Films in Toronto?
As one of the world’s leading animation studios, we are committed to helping our staff grow into long-term team members.
- Location: Work in the cool and trendy Liberty Village office alongside 200+ artists.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive compensation package, first-rate health + dental benefits, Summer Hours, paid Health and Wellness Days, and increasing vacation periods with tenure.
Diversity & Inclusion: 9 Story Media is committed to equity in our recruitment process. Candidates from diverse backgrounds (including Indigenous, Racialized, LGBT2SQ+ communities, and individuals with disabilities) are strongly encouraged to apply. We are building a workforce where all identities are respected and represented.
Application Instructions: Interested applicants are requested to share their application along with a link to their portfolio.
Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada.