Role Call Roundup: ICON Creative Studio, Sony Pictures Animation, Blizzard Entertainment

At the ready, recruits! And welcome to CartoonRecruit.com’s weekly Roll Call Roundup. On the main page, I monitor and curate links to job posts (updated daily) from an ever-expanding list of animation studios. This blog is where I reflect on job posts from the past week and take a closer look at hiring trends across the animation industry.

This week, I had a chance to interview a line producer about her career in animation. And, in this issue, we collect new job opportunities from ICON Creative Studio, Sony Pictures Animation, Blizzard Entertainment and  ZŌIC. Let’s find your next production role!

Find iconic studio roles in Vancouver, British Columbia

ICON Creative Studio is an independently-owned animation studio which specializes in CG productions. Located in Vancouver’s Gastown district, the CG studio employs artists for design, storyboarding, modelling, rigging, animation, technical finaling, lighting, visual effects and compositing. Recent productions include Wondla for Apple TV+, Disney’s Monsters at Work and Rocket Club. ICON Creative Studio is currently hiring for four roles in Vancouver.

Production coordinators and designers wanted in Culver City, California

Sony Pictures Animation was founded in 2002, following the success of Sony Pictures Imageworks’ contributions to Stuart Little 2 (as well as an ill-fated attempt to sell the VFX studio). The studio has since become an early and influential leader in stylized 3D animation, with productions like Hotel Transylvania, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Mitchells vs. the Machines.

Matchmove into your next career move in Vancouver, British Columbia

ZŌIC is an artist-owned VFX studio headquartered in Culver City, California, with divisions in Vancouver and New York City. The studio provided VFX services on television series like The Good Place, A Series of Unfortunate Events and The Boys, as well as feature films like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny. ZŌIC is currently hiring for three roles at their Vancouver studio.

A flurry of new job posts in Irvine, California

Blizzard Entertainment is a game developer in Irvine, California, which was acquired by Activision in 2008. Founded by Allen Adham, Frank Pearce and Michael Morhaime in 1991, the developer is best known for its franchises which include Warcraft, Diablo and Overwatch as well as the hit mobile game Hearthstone. This week, Blizzard is hiring for five artistic roles in Irvine, California.

Blizzard is also hiring for two VFX roles which can either be filled in Irvine, California or Albany, New York:

More job highlights from the past week

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Allissoon Lockhart’s advice for aspiring line producers

This week, I had an opportunity to interview Allissoon Lockhart, on Toon Boom Animation’s livestream, about her career and experience in animation production. Allissoon runs online classes about animation production and works as a line producer with studios like BRIKK and Glitch Productions.

Naturally, I asked Allissoon which qualities studios look for in a line producer. Her advice was to be familiar with as much of the production pipeline as possible:

“Once you get higher up, having a line producer who knows what happens from script to delivery on broadcast or streaming is really important.”

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Signing off for now

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