Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. 

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. 

Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

As a CGI Animation Artist, your role is to bring objects, and scenes to life through dynamic and visually engaging animations. Key responsibilities and required software skills include:

Key Responsibilities:

Animation Creation: Develop high-quality and realistic 3D animations for Automotive, products , objects, or environments based on project requirements and creative direction.

Storyboard Interpretation: Create and translate storyboards and scripts into captivating and fluid animations, ensuring they align with the narrative and artistic vision.

Create animation edits in premier or Davinci resolve (prefer Resolve) for viewing of entire animation in either Maya or Houdini (not Cinema4D or Blender).

Create your own basic animation rigs to build animations.

Take complex brand and technical stories and translate into compelling, easy understand animations.

Collaboration: Work closely with directors, animators, and other team members to understand project goals and contribute to the overall animation vision.

Feedback Incorporation: Receive and integrate feedback from directors and team members, making necessary adjustments to enhance the quality of animations.

Software Proficiency: Utilize industry-standard animation software tools such as Autodesk Maya, to create and refine animations efficiently.

Rendering: Collaborate with lighting and rendering teams to ensure that animated sequences are rendered efficiently, meeting both visual and technical requirements.

Quality Control: Conduct thorough reviews and quality checks on animations to ensure they meet project standards and specifications.

Software Skills:

Autodesk Maya: Proficiency in 3D animation, rigging, and  animation. (This is a non-creature role)

Houdini: Knowledge of procedural animation and visual effects.

Knowledge of Real-world Motion Principles

Your proficiency in these software tools, coupled with a strong grasp of animation principles, will contribute significantly to the success of CGI animation projects.

Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves.  We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging. 

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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