Senior Storyboard Artist – Temp (SFD / Cinematics)
About The Position
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a Senior Storyboard Artist with strong draftsmanship and a storyteller’s sensibility, particularly in action-adventure and drama. The role requires dynamic staging, filmmaking fundamentals, character acting, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. The position is anticipated to be hybrid, with work both on-site and from home. The potential home studio is in Irvine, California, though other arrangements, including remote work, may be explored. This is a roughly four-month temporary position with a mid-January start. The artist will develop storyboard sequences from thumbnails through rough and clean finishes, translating scripts, outlines, and director guidance into clear and entertaining visual storytelling. The artist will collaborate with directors, creative leadership, production staff, and fellow artists to align boards with creative goals, review and revise work, pitch sequences, incorporate feedback, and meet production delivery requirements.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience as a storyboard artist and/or director.
- Relevant drawing experience, including strong figurative and perspective draftsmanship.
- Ability to draw on-model characters in three-dimensional settings and create cleaned-up storyboards with clarity and entertainment value.
- Strong staging, cinematography, and composition skills using drawing and software.
- Advanced knowledge of Cintiq, Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, and Photoshop.
- Proficiency in timing, screen direction, continuity, and the language of cinema.
- Good verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to write clear, specific direction on storyboards when requested.
- Strong time-management skills and ability to meet deadlines.
- Ability to work from directors’ or fellow board artists’ thumbnails to create final boards within assigned deadlines when tasked.
- Ability to provide regular status updates, troubleshoot, and review potential changes with production staff.
Nice To Haves
- Blender 3D experience.
Responsibilities
- Create storyboard sequences from thumbnail through rough and clean finish, implementing storytelling objectives set by the script or outline and Director.
- Ensure storyboards align with leadership’s creative goals, vision, style, and storytelling objectives for shows and intellectual properties.
- Collaborate with the Director on storytelling direction, design requirements, and expected polish for each episode.
- Work with creative leadership and production to review storyboard goals and vision, and discuss concerns, timelines, and complexity within schedule parameters.
- Meet regularly with the Supervisor, Director, Producer, Editor, and fellow Storyboard Artists to review, discuss, execute, and revise storyboards.
- Pitch storyboards to the Supervisor, Director, crew, executives, and stakeholders; receive feedback and implement notes.
- Attend and contribute to script meetings and pitches when requested, offering feedback from a storyboarding perspective.
- Follow production guidelines for document management and delivery.
- Provide status updates, troubleshoot, and review potential changes regularly with production staff.
- When tasked, use directors’ or fellow board artists’ thumbnails to create final boards within assigned deadlines.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Health savings account or health reimbursement account and healthcare and dependent-care spending accounts.
- Life and AD&D insurance and disability insurance.
- 401(k) with Company match.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Charitable donation matching.
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, and floating holidays.
- Compassion and bereavement leaves and parental leave.
- Mental health and wellbeing programs and fitness programs.
- Free and discounted games.
- Voluntary benefits, including supplemental life and disability coverage, legal services, ID protection, and rental insurance.
- Relocation assistance may be available if the Company requires the employee to move for the job.
- Potential eligibility for incentive compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
