Flying Bark Productions

Supervisor

• Supervise and lead a team of 2D animators across rigged and traditional animation pipelines
• Provide clear direction and daily support
• Review shots and sequences and give notes to maintain consistent performance and quality
• Guide animators in achieving expressive performances within character-rig capabilities and limitations
• Work with the Rigging team to flag rig issues, request improvements, and troubleshoot problems
• Partner with the Director and Assistant Director on creative intent, tone, and character performance
• Manage and review work from the offshore partner animation studio
• Mentor animators new to rigged workflows, including those transitioning from hand-drawn animation
• Assign scenes and manage workload according to the production schedule
• Ensure animation aligns with the show's style guide and performance benchmarks
• Liaise with Layout, Compositing, and Editorial to deliver animation on time and to specification
• Maintain confidentiality in accordance with the code of conduct and security forms

2D Animation Supervisor

Director

• Serve as the bridge between Lighting, Surfacing, FX and render infrastructure
• Audit, profile and optimize high-density production scenes to maximize image quality while minimizing compute cost
• Inspect geometry, textures, shading networks and scene graph traversal efficiency before farm dispatch
• Diagnose and resolve complex render failures across Surfacing, FX and Lighting
• Troubleshoot shading errors, memory limits/crashes, render locks, fireflies, temporal noise and aliasing
• Analyze shot setups and adjust sampling, ray depths and light thresholds for target frame budgets
• Profile CPU utilization, I/O bandwidth and memory consumption
• Use engine logs, diagnostics and profilers to isolate performance bottlenecks
• Build, refine and maintain internal department tools and scripts using Python and Lua
• Streamline render pass setups, custom AOVs, secondary outputs and automated denoising workflows
• Leverage ray-tracing and light-transport knowledge to write or modify custom OSL or C++ shaders for specialized production needs

Render Technical Director

General

• Lead development of workforce plans for upcoming and potential productions
• Prepare scenario modelling ahead of every greenlight
• Identify internal capability and optimal allocation across productions
• Partner with Production on scheduling and budget forecasts
• Own workforce planning across Sydney, Los Angeles and Madrid
• Provide senior leadership with insights and reporting on workforce capacity, risk and opportunity
• Interpret employee, market insight, time-to-fill and historical hiring data
• Maintain understanding of internal capability, skills and availability
• Identify workforce trends and risks and escalate insights
• Connect Recruitment, People and Culture, Production and IT on workforce matters
• Lead and support cross-functional operational projects
• Build, maintain and improve reporting tools, dashboards and models
• Identify automation opportunities and improve system efficiency
• Lead or support implementation of systems, tools and automations
• Ensure data integrity and consistency across workforce planning tools and reporting

2D Animation Supervisor

Render Technical Director

Workforce Planning Specialist