a. Understands the client brief for the assigned work completely and thoroughly. Studies client directions, specifications, and references thoroughly. Develops a very good understanding of the work complexity and of the quality required by the client. b. Works closely with the Senior/Junior animation artists / Leads to capture the team’s questions before the work is estimated or scheduled. Provides a list of queries to the Lead to seek clarification on the project work.
c. Helps in the creation of bids that are competitive yet realistic.
d. During execution, ensures that questions, explanations, and delivery notes going fromthe team to the client are clearly articulated and supported by examples references. Could be an act out of own or downloaded videos.
e. Ensures that the team attends to client’s feedback promptly and efficiently.
a. Establishes a production workflow for a project that can help the team to deliver good quality work in an efficient way, without subjecting the team to long work hours and unnecessary stress.
b. Establishes an effective work review process for the project, including effective quality checkpoints, to ensure that the project’s quality goals are met.
c. Creates a daily work completion plan with the artist so that the artist has a clear idea of how much work they need to complete on a day-to-day basis.
d. Drives the production team to work as per this plan and to deliver work within the planned deadline, with no loss of productivity.
e. If required, assists in creating or polishing animations, be it Keyframe or Motion Capture.
f. Identifies key roles within the animation production process and allocates these roles to appropriate artists in the team (such as designating Senior Artists as sub-leads on a project). Clearly communicates to team members their responsibilities.
g. Works closely with the team to proactively identify potential issues and resolve them before they are escalated.
h. Conducts expert artistic reviews and limited technical review of assets (only for those aspects, if any, which cannot be checked by QC through their checklists). Provides clear directions to artists on what they need to do to fix any problems / issue that may exist in the asset, or to improve its quality.
i. Helps the team understand the client’s directions and feedback.
j. Ensures that the Project Team meetings are held daily and key points – such as client feedback, projects challenges and work allocations – are discussed in the meeting.
k. Ensures that the team asks questions at appropriate times.
l. Ensures that the team consistently and correctly creates, updates, and uses all key documents such as Feedback Tracker, Query Tracker etc.
m. Takes the lead in solving project problems related to animation quality, artist productivity, workflow, artists’ workload etc.
n. Ensures that the team adopts and uses the organization’s processes and best practices.
o. Supports the PM in establishing discipline in the project team.
a. Tracks and maintains records of progress for the artists to ensure that they complete the work on their animations within the budgeted effort. Provides support to artists who may be struggling to do so. Notes and highlights any special contribution by the artists during the project.
b. Regularly communicates with the Animation team and PM team to share feedback from client and the direction of the project. Works closely with the team to arrive at solutions to address client feedback or concerns.
c. Provides regular and authentic feedback to the artists and their reporting managers, with a view to developing their art and delivery skills. Monitors their skill enhancements and regularly updates their skill levels for the PM team for appropriate work allocation.
d. Listens to the team’s suggestions and empowers the team to develop them without compromising on the quality or timelines of the project.
e. When artists don’t have adequate work on a project, ensure that they are fruitfully engaged either in self-development, creation of portfolio assets etc. …
f. Demonstrates leadership skills to communicate and lead the team to a course of action which may be difficult or unpopular, but which may be necessary for the achievement of project goals.