[Hiring] Animatic Supervisor @Bored Panda

Role Description

We’re looking for a talented Animatic Supervisor to help us bring Spike to even more kids around the world.

• Supervise the entire animatic process, from initial storyboarding through to the delivery of timed and exported animatic footage, ensuring the visual storytelling supports the creative direction of the series.
• Collaborate closely with the Creative Director to align on the creative expectations for each episode and maintain narrative and visual continuity.
• Guide and support the animatic team, providing clear feedback and practical solutions to strengthen staging, composition, acting, and storytelling.
• Review and refine storyboards and animatics to ensure shots communicate the intended action, emotion, and narrative clearly and effectively.
• Ensure scripts are translated into engaging, coherent visual narratives that respect the intended emotion of each scene, develop character arcs, and build intrigue and tension.
• Ensure consistency in character positioning, screen direction, shot transitions, and staging throughout each episode and across the series.
• Identify storytelling issues, pacing problems, and continuity errors early, taking ownership of solutions to keep the production moving efficiently.
• Establish and maintain animatic guidelines, workflows, and review processes that support consistent quality and effective collaboration across departments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an Animatic Supervisor, Storyboard Supervisor, or senior storyboard artist role within 2D animation production.
• A strong understanding of visual storytelling, shot composition, staging, screen direction, camera language, and cinematic continuity.
• A keen sense of timing, rhythm, and pacing, with the ability to balance dialogue, action, comedy, and emotional beats.
• Strong skills in translating scripts into clear, engaging storyboards and developing them into polished animatics that communicate the intended narrative.
• The ability to interpret and effectively apply feedback from the Creative Director and Project Owners while preserving the integrity of the story.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to guide the animatic team, provide constructive feedback, and align the team around a shared creative vision.
• A strong sense of ownership and initiative, with the ability to identify storytelling problems, contribute original ideas, and propose effective creative solutions.
• A proactive, solution-oriented mindset, with the ability to balance storytelling quality, clarity, and production deadlines.
• Proficiency in Storyboard Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro, with the ability to adapt to the project's tools and production pipeline.

Benefits

• Collaboration with a diverse, international team of talented individuals.
• Flexibility to work fully remotely.
• A supportive and encouraging work environment.
• The opportunity to contribute and grow.

Compensation

€3,000–4,000 gross/month, depending on experience.