Storyboard and Animatics artist

Storyboard & Animatics Artist

Company Description

Chakrra LLC is an independent film, animation, and IP development studio focused on building original stories with strong visual identity, emotional depth, and global appeal. We develop projects across animation, film, and digital platforms, with a focus on meaningful, high-concept storytelling.

Role Description

We are seeking a highly creative, cinematic, and detail-oriented Storyboard & Animatics Artist to join our production team. This role is critical in transforming scripts, treatments, concepts, and director notes into compelling visual sequences that define pacing, emotion, staging, and screen language.

The ideal candidate understands how to tell a story visually through camera choices, composition, character acting, transitions, and timing. You should be able to turn written material into clear, dynamic boards and animatics that guide production efficiently.

This is an excellent opportunity for an artist who enjoys storytelling, filmmaking grammar, and shaping projects from concept through production.

You will be a great fit if you are:

Able to think like both an artist and filmmaker.

Understand that every shot must serve story, emotion, and rhythm.

Move fast, solve problems visually, and elevate scenes beyond what is written on the page

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this

• Translate scripts, outlines, treatments, and creative briefs into professional storyboard sequences.
• Design shots, staging, camera angles, lens logic, screen direction, continuity, and scene transitions.
• Visualize emotion, comedy, drama, suspense, and action through strong sequential storytelling.
• Create animatics with temporary timing, pacing, camera movement, rough motion, transitions, and sound references.
• Interpret director and producer notes quickly and revise efficiently.
• Maintain consistency in character, character proportions, scene geography, continuity, and narrative clarity.
• Collaborate closely with writers, directors, editors, animators, designers, and production teams.
• Suggest visual improvements, alternate staging, comedic beats, stronger transitions, or storytelling solutions.
• Organize files, scenes, naming conventions, and version control professionally.
• Meet deadlines and production milestones in a fast-paced remote environment.

These core skills will make you a star candidate

• Strong craftsmanship and visual storytelling ability.
• Excellent understanding of cinematic language, including:
• • Framing
• Composition
• Staging
• Perspective
• Camera positions and movement
• Shot continuity
• Screen direction
• Visual pacing
• Ability to communicate acting, emotion, gags, action, and pacing through drawings.
• Strong sense of timing for animatics.
• Ability to simplify ideas into clear visuals quickly.
• Comfortable receiving feedback and executing revisions professionally.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Organized, dependable, and deadline-driven.

Software Proficiency

• Toon Boom Storyboard Pro (preferred)
• Adobe Creative Suite

These skills will bump you up to superstar

• 4-5+ years of experience in animation, film, and advertising.
• Experience working directly with directors or showrunners.
• Familiarity with 2D and/or 3D animation pipelines.
• Understanding of layout, previs, and shot planning.
• Ability to adapt to multiple visual styles, tones, and genres.
• Experience boarding dialogue-heavy scenes, action sequences, comedy, or emotionally driven scenes.
• Experience in remote pipeline collaboration.
• good problem-solving skills.
• good communication skills.
• good team-working skills.
• have a "can do" attitude that is solution-oriented and willing to put in the extra effort required to get project work done on time and completed at the highest level of quality.
• humble enough to be able to take directions and be willing to address constructive feedback.
• able to work with a minimum of supervision.
• be able to deliver on schedule, working calmly and efficiently under pressure.
• show respect for the procedures and requirements of a particular studio, production or pipeline.
• demonstrate proficiency in technical troubleshooting and meeting aggressive performance targets.
• ensure the 2D concepts are consistent with the defined visual style for the project.
• work closely with the Animation director to fine tune and request additional details of the storyboard and animatics work.
• able to work independently or in small groups to troubleshoot and provide solutions to production issues related to asset creation and migration across platforms, work collaboratively with other artists, designers and engineers on a daily basis.

Let us get to know your work better

Submit a portfolio or reel demonstrating strong visual storytelling and your resumè with relevant experience.

Please include: - Narrative storyboard sequences

• Dialogue scenes
• Action or cinematic sequences
• Animatics (if available)
• Samples showing timing, acting, and shot progression
• Any relevant film, animation, or commercial storytelling work

Sorry! But applications without portfolio samples and resumes will not be considered.

Apply here or from our website: chakrra.com by clicking on 'Join our team'

Employment type: Contract

Approximate Length of Contract: 2 months

Make sure you have a stable and reliable internet connection, and are responsive to communication. We also greatly appreciate your ability to meet scheduled review sessions and deadlines.