Two time Academy Award™ nominated animation studio Brown Bag Films is recruiting talented animation and production professionals to work with us on a range of high profile computer animation television series.

If you would like to join the team behind shows like Olivia, Noddy and The Octonauts at our Dublin based studio, please check out the positions listed below.

If you are interested in applying for any of these roles please submit your CV and the relevant application form to jobs@brownbagfilms.com , clearly specifying which position you are applying for.

Current Positions:

• Assistant Production Manager
• Lead Animator
• Texture Artist
• Junior Texture Artist
• Writer
• Visual FX Artist

In addition, we we are always looking for Story Board Artists and 2D Set Designers. Please submit your CV and showreel to jobs@brownbagfilms.com

Please note that every completed application form submitted will receive a response via email within 1-2weeks

Some application forms are in PDF format only. If you require a Word version, please request one from jobs@brownbagfilms.com

Brown Bag Films are in production on a high profile 3D animation project and are looking for some highly skilled people to become key members of the development process. We are currently looking for a Overseas Supervisor. We are looking for someone with minimum 5 years production experience,Supervising 3D animation from start to Post Production.

For more detailed information about the role please send your CV to Aaron Healy to jobs@brownbagfilms.com.

Simplicity
Keep it simple and well edited. Always put your best work forward. Don’t have 200 images in a portfolio, select the best ones as we can judge your ability in less than 20 pieces. If you have enough material for a Showreel, it’s always best to keep it short (less than 5 minutes) and only use your best work. If we want to see more, we will ask you at interview stage.

Style/Theme
If you have a particular style and the bulk of your work is consistent, that’s great, but the general consensus is that it’s better to have a variety of different styles in your portfolio. That said, it’s important that you still maintain a structure and not just have a random muddle of idea’s and designs. It’s good to have a thought process behind them, from character design, tonal boards, to how the characters look in a background and in story boards. All these aspects must complement each other and as a result solidify the entire theme. By showing you have a variety of styles it shows your range and that you are able to adapt to whatever project they will be working on and keep the overall animation piece coherent.

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Be Critical.
Try not to be nostalgic about an image as it is not necessarily your best work. Always ask the opinion of someone you trust will give an honest assessment of your work. Generally this does not include family or friends as they will always more than likely say your stuff is “Amazing” regardless if it is or not.

Make it relevant
Remember always make your portfolio relevant to the position you are applying for. There is no point showing a company 20 character designs when applying for a technical director position.

The review process
Once we receive a portfolio/showreel or CV, we will send an email to confirm that we received it, we keep all portfolios/showreels and CV’s on file for 6 months. We only look at portfolios if we are recruiting and regret that due to time constraints we cannot give individual feedback. If we feel your portfolio has potential we will get in touch with you for an interview.

Never submit something that you want returned such as original artwork or your only copy of a digital file as we do not return portfolios or showreels. It’s also important that when sending digital files that they play on the computer easily, we will not look at .EXE (Executable) files or any less obvious file extension. Jpegs, Tiffs, Quicktimes etc are all perfectly welcome files.

From time to time, please feel free to check back by email to see if we have reviewed your portfolio/showreel. By the nature of animation production, when we hire, it tends to be for a large production so we could be quickly looking to hire an additional 20 staff. But in-between the larger productions, recruitment tends to be slower which is why you may not hear back from us about an interview.

We get a large volume of portfolios/showreels and CV’s sent to us so it’s really important that you only submit your work to jobs@brownbagfilms.com as there is a good chance it will not be included in the system if you send it to any individual within the company.

Brown Bag Films depends on your creativity and talent to produce the work that we do and we really hope that these few pointers help you as you prepare to submit a portfolio or showreel to us.