LAYOUT ARTIST RESUME EXAMPLE

Job Summary: 

• Work with rough models of environments and begin to scout out the viability of shots.
• Modify sets to confirm the effectiveness through compositional and blocking tests.
• Model rough new characters or reduce polygon resolution of existing models and rig them according to supervisor specifications when rigs are not already available.
• Maintain the goal of balancing appealing performance with rig lightness/quickness so that scenes with many characters operate near 24 fps.
• Help communicate materials, parallax and scale of environments, props and characters.
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in building shaders for Viewport 2.0 rendering and painting/editing textures in Photoshop.
• Demonstrate the ability to optimize UV space and texture layouts to ensure fast load times and high frame rates.
• Understand how to work in stepped keyframes and generate clear, storytelling key poses.
• Understand the principles of character blocking and how effective staging can drive story, emotion, and make for elegant cinematography.
• Use Adobe Premiere to cut together their shots using the 2D animatic as a starting point.
• Troubleshoot problem edits, determining when to maintain shots in Sequencer and when to break a shot out into its own Maya file.
• Work directly from a script or from a written or verbal description of an event or scene.
• Share work often with other team members to get feedback and work towards better solutions.
• Present their work to a Director and be engaged in the conversation for resolving problems.
• Recognize the Director's point of view and remember that the universal end goal is to entertain the audience, with all work directed toward that shared objective.

Skills on Resume:

• Shot Previsualization (Hard Skills)
• Set Modification (Hard Skills)
• Character Modeling (Hard Skills)
• Shader Development (Hard Skills)
• UV Optimization (Hard Skills)
• Character Blocking (Hard Skills)
• Editing Workflow (Hard Skills)
• Creative Collaboration (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Create sales enablement and client engagement flyers.
• Make collateral into templates via Canva.
• Responsible for styling email newsletters.
• Create reusable social media templates.
• Assist with mocking up website designs.
• Review and edit slide decks for quality standards.
• Maintain brand library and asset tracker.
• Assist with creating client career pages.

Skills on Resume:

• Sales Collateral Design (Hard Skills)
• Canva Templating (Hard Skills)
• Email Newsletter Styling (Hard Skills)
• Social Media Templates (Hard Skills)
• Website Mockups (Hard Skills)
• Slide Deck Review (Hard Skills)
• Brand Asset Management (Hard Skills)
• Client Collaboration (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Create scenes and setups that will be foundations for sequences and shots.
• Create scenes and shots by placing characters, props and environments according to the previz, concept, or supervisor's brief.
• Create visually appealing presentation dailies that matches visual standards of an MPC prototype within the given time frame.
• Adapt shot staging according to the composition.
• Check the conformity and continuity of the sequences.
• Create character/asset line-ups.
• Attend daily progress reviews.
• Organize work and prepare presentation elements for approval.

Skills on Resume:

• Scene Setup (Hard Skills)
• Shot Layout (Hard Skills)
• Visual Dailies (Hard Skills)
• Shot Staging (Hard Skills)
• Sequence Continuity (Hard Skills)
• Asset Lineups (Hard Skills)
• Production Reviews (Soft Skills)
• Work Organization (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Liaise with the director regarding the execution of the script.
• Work from the storyboard to set up the layout of the animation.
• Draw initial line work for backgrounds.
• Research the genre, reference shots and style of the project.
• Create backgrounds that support the narrative of the story.
• Responsible for lighting each key scene.
• Set the camera path of a scene.
• Define the perspective of the scene.
• Ensure continuity between shots.
• Experiment with camera angles to arrive at the best shots.

Skills on Resume:

• Director Liaison (Soft Skills)
• Storyboard Layout (Hard Skills)
• Background Linework (Hard Skills)
• Visual Research (Hard Skills)
• Narrative Backgrounds (Hard Skills)
• Scene Lighting (Hard Skills)
• Camera Pathing (Hard Skills)
• Shot Continuity (Hard Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Create rough models and environments for pre-visualization.
• Assist the animation department with the technical setup of their assigned sequences, troubleshoot any problems on their shots, and maintain the continuity and flow within and between shots.
• Facilitate the creation of a 3D version of the shot.
• Work as part of the team on the technical aspects of Layout.
• Perform matchmoving duties such as camera tracking, character matching (matchanim), solving lens distortion, deformation matching of surfaces, and solving native stereo plates.
• Responsible for multi-plate splicing and stitching, adding creative plate post-moves, and creative stereo (i.e. Technical layout).
• Responsible for Previz, postviz and techviz (prep for location shooting or ride development).
• Photomodel, perform environment/scene setup, verifying correct assets are being used, edit ranges are correct, and generating initial data for downstream artists, including animation/TDs/comp, lidar processing, and set dressing (i.e. Scene setup).

Skills on Resume:

• Previsualization Modeling (Hard Skills)
• Technical Layout (Hard Skills)
• 3D Shot Setup (Hard Skills)
• Animation Support (Hard Skills)
• Matchmoving Tracking (Hard Skills)
• Stereo Layout (Hard Skills)
• Scene Assembly (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Create creative camera work for non-plate shots and camera takeover shots.
• Originate CG camera animation (i.e., CG camera work) entirely.
• Solve facial animation from face cams (i.e., face-capture).
• Set up the technical and aesthetic approaches of the matchmove work for a shot, sequence, or an entire aspect of a show.
• Convert background plates to various formats to use with specific software.
• Create digital motion files that match the plate photography, and animate any live action character or relative object in the scene.
• Model the set geometry used to create the matchmove and environment for Animators and Technical Directors.
• Ensure that between Lighting, rendering and animation.

Skills on Resume:

• CG Camera Animation (Hard Skills)
• Camera Takeovers (Hard Skills)
• Facial Capture Solving (Hard Skills)
• Matchmove Supervision (Hard Skills)
• Plate Conversion (Hard Skills)
• Motion Matching (Hard Skills)
• Set Geometry Modeling (Hard Skills)
• Pipeline Coordination (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Create layout drawings based on the storyboard panels, maintaining the show's look and feel.
• Accurately interpret the perspective and composition laid out in the storyboard.
• Ensure the layouts accurately follow the approved location designs.
• Support the team with fixes.
• Finalize and clean up designs using Photoshop.
• Collaborate with the Layout Supervisor regarding weekly or biweekly assignments.
• Follow the proper naming conventions established by the production pipeline.
• Create proxy props and other models based on supplied set data and/or other available survey information, including proof of scale in virtual layout setup.
• Set up a virtual camera from data sheets and track camera motion.
• Matchmove objects/characters to match the action in the live action plates.
• Render track/matchmove over supplied plates for approval.
• Responsible for undistorting and re-distorting plates.

Skills on Resume:

• Storyboard Layout (Hard Skills)
• Perspective Accuracy (Hard Skills)
• Location Compliance (Hard Skills)
• Design Cleanup (Hard Skills)
• Photoshop Finalization (Hard Skills)
• Pipeline Conventions (Hard Skills)
• Proxy Modeling (Hard Skills)
• Camera Matchmove (Hard Skills)