Responsibilities: “What would you say you do here?” Establish character blocking, camera positioning, and animate camera movement. Build an animatic interpretation of the story reel. Ensure that the vision of the Director and Art Director are incorporated into the film where possible. Work with existing storyboards, recreate and/or enhance story through cinematic layout of shots. May create rough pre-visualization models and environments to facilitate animatic work. Collaborate with the Editorial department to incorporate materials and animatic work into the production reel. Help guide the pre-visualization and layout work flow, tool and pipeline development with input and testing. Pre-visualize the look of the film - characters, locations, effects, look - in collaboration with the Art Department. Pre-visualize and layout sequences of shots that convey the story based on storyboards, story reel, and/or script pages. Model, surface, and rig pre-visualization and layout models, characters, environments, and effects. Optimize assets and scenes for real time interactive playback. Plan and prepare motion capture and camera capture sessions. Active participant at virtual shoots capturing motion capture data. Active participant at camera capture session capturing camera motion. Work in pre-visualization and layout on lighting, effects, rough character animation/blocking, camera motion, and rough editing. Motion edit motion capture and keyframe animation of characters. Deliver shot data to Final Layout Department that meet the need of production. Communicate with downstream departments to find solutions that facilitate the production process.