Job Description

Job Title: Character Producer

Location: Remote/Hybrid (based in the UK and travelling occasionally to London for shoots)

Salary: £45k - £60k

Benefits: Cycle-to-work scheme, private healthcare, your birthday off, plenty of flexibility, parental packages, sabbatical after 5 years of service, unrivalled access to on set experience, fun socials, and more!

About Dimension

Dimension is a real-time 3D production studio leading virtual production and the creation of virtual humans. From blockbuster films to epic metaverse moonshots, our team of around 100 people is working to build a future for entertainment that’s radically creative and immersive. By joining Dimension, you’ll be challenged in new and exciting ways and have access to on-set experience, in-house experts and inspiring artists along the way. As a Character Producer, you will be based out of our Wimbledon production studio, but also spend time at our West London virtual production and motion capture stage and on our mobile volumetric capture stage. Recent productions include the MetaHuman of Eva Herzigova, the NARS Power Players, Disney’s Pinocchio, Sony Pictures’ I Wanna Dance With Somebody and Bullet Train, Balenciaga’s Afterworld, Coldplay x BTS My Universe and many more. We’re here to work on the ideas we dreamed of as kids. Magic isn’t made if everyone has travelled the same path. As we pioneer new industries, we’re fully committed to providing a supportive, inclusive environment for our team and encourage applications from diverse backgrounds.

Character Producer Role Summary

Dimension is looking for a Character Producer to join the production team, and help us deliver industry leading digital humans and virtual production content. Utilising our 3 capture studios for volumetric video and avatar, and working with our growing team of character artists, you’ll be leading projects for some of the world's most respected brands and entertainment studios, creating characters that span mixed reality performances, immersive experiences, web, film and TV. This is a truly exciting role sitting within our current team of producers, reporting directly into the Production Supervisor.

Responsibilities For The Character Producer

• Plan and execute projects from initial concept through to final delivery, including all project documentation, ownership of meetings, shoot planning and project resourcing
• Create pitch documentation, to include budgets, Schedules, and SOW’s
• Manage multiple projects, ensuring production pipelines are carried out effectively, on time and to budget
• An in depth technical understanding of our character pipelines (training on specifics to be provided)
• Hold sprint planning and sprint review sessions
• Run dailies with artists and animators, tracking progress throughout the life of your projects
• Ensure projects are well documented and offer visibility across the team of artists and management
• Working closely with the On Set Services team to ensure capture days run smoothly
• Creation of cost reports
• Manage and interface with clients and partners
• Communicate and mitigate any project risks or issues with the Senior Producer and other appropriate team members
• Ensure the high quality standards and expectations of the Dimension studio are met across all projects

Requirements For The Character Producer

This position will require you to manage the production process through pitching, data capture, to final delivery. You’ll ideally have on set experience, have proven experience managing clients through complex productions, and be familiar with industry standard processes around animation, avatars, and 3D assets, within either the games or VFX industry.

• Solid experience communicating with artists, programmers and other team members
• Experience working within an agile environment
• Excellent leadership, organisational and problem solving skills
• Proven experience putting pitch docs together
• Ability to work strategically across multiple deliveries
• You are highly self-motivated and collaborative
• You are constantly striving to learn and improve your skills

Desirable Experience For The Character Producer

• Strong experience as a Producer within post production VFX or gaming
• A good understanding of 3D pipelines (preferably for the creation of digital humans), and 3D file formats
• On set experience (TV/film/mo-cap/volumetric)
• Experience planning and running mo-cap or volumetric shoots
• Project management experience or qualifications, particularly Agile
• Experience with project management tools, such as Jira, Monday, Trello, Basecamp
• Experience within a VFX post-production or gaming production environment
• Knowledge of animation pipelines including mo-cap
• Experience with Unreal Engine and Metahumans

If you have worked as a Producer in production or post-production VFX or gaming, and this sounds like you, please click apply! Or feel free to contact us on people@dimensionstudio.co and we will do our best to help.