Jobs at Flying Bark Productions

The 3D Animator will bring characters to life, enhance storytelling, and meet creative and technical requirements while collaborating with the animation team.

Lead and manage a team of 3D animators, act as primary production contact, coach junior artists, solve creative and technical animation challenges, maintain workflows and tools (especially Maya), attend dailies, and ensure timely, high-quality delivery.

Create, maintain, and support character, prop, and set-piece rigs; ensure rigs meet aesthetic, performance, and technical standards; respond to director and supervisor feedback; troubleshoot and support animators and TDs; develop rigging techniques and pipeline processes.

Create and implement digital crowd behaviours and simulations to meet the Animation Director and VFX Supervisor's vision. Collaborate with VFX/CG leads and animation teams, build automated templates and pipeline tools, mentor junior TDs, attend meetings, and deliver shots on schedule with high-quality output.

Lead and produce visual effects for animation, mentor the effects crew, and ensure creative standards are met while managing workflows and deadlines.

Manage and modernise on-premises storage and core infrastructure for a creative animation studio. Own enterprise SAN/NAS, fibre switching, backups/archives (Bacula + LTO8), AD/DNS/DHCP, virtualization (Proxmox/Hyper-V), networking and security. Provide hands-on systems administration, ticket support, automation (Python/PowerShell/Bash), vendor liaison, documentation, and drive storage consolidation while meeting client security standards (TPN/MPAA).

Manage HR operations for Sydney studio: handle employee and industrial relations, benefits and compensation administration, engagement and L&D initiatives, HR reporting and compliance (including award audits), support managers, and collaborate with global People & Culture teams to scale HR practices across studios.

Create and execute high-quality stylized CGFX (fire, smoke, water, particles, destruction) for animated films/episodic under CG FX supervision. Build setups, run simulations, generate caches, maintain effect presets, render show-compatible elements, and mentor junior artists.