Production Artist Job Description
Production Artist Duties & Responsibilities
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Production Artist Qualifications
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Education for Production Artist
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Employers hiring for the production artist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Graphic Design, Design, Education, Art, Graphic Arts, Marketing, Associates, Technical, Fine Arts, Advertising
Skills for Production Artist
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Production Artist Examples
Production Artist Job Description
- Generating freehand drawings for orders, as needed
- Generating Team Services flyers and online web store images
- Working directly with the Customization Department, as needed, to resolve any artwork issues that arise during production, ensuring orders flow through in an efficient manner
- Following a production timeline to ensure tasks are being completed by their scheduled due dates
- Participating in the creative development of additional assigned projects based upon pre-established guidelines, instructions and aesthetic design concepts
- Support & assist Director in the mechanical execution and pre-press production of DC comic book covers (periodicals)
- Scale, crop, retouch, reposition, and preflight images and files
- Eliminate defective and excessive imaging
- Archive and update files
- Work with layout and photo shoot edits
- Knowledge of screen print production and color separations processes a plus
- Servicing the requests of associates in marketing and other departments
- Entrepreneurial spirit, ability to work independently, shows strong initative collaborative and team-oriented work style
- Excellent design and conceptual capabilities
- This is a contract position that does not require the candidate to work on site
- A degree in related field or equivalent work experience required
Production Artist Job Description
- Complete layout of in-store signage, point-of-sale and other print marketing collateral
- Prepare art for print production
- Create presentation documents
- Work with and support senior designer
- Partner with traffic, retouching and marketing to manage deliverables
- Complete light retouching
- Assist the art department as needed
- Provide assistance to producers with trafficking, scheduling and reinforcement of workflow
- Responsible for supporting the production of high quality print-ready files and apply proficiency of print and preflight/prepress process
- Effectively communicate project status, challenges and issues to project with Sr
- Previous comic book/narrative experience strongly preferred
- Must be able to meet deadlines under strict time constraints
- Must show attentiveness to detail
- Must have proficient proofreading skills
- Design skills preferred
- Associate’s degree in Arts/Fine Arts, Design or equivalent
Production Artist Job Description
- Accurately create color components in Flex PLM from design generated BOM post style review
- Work with manager on identification and communication of cost challenges
- Compile time and actions for all styles in development and discuss risk with Manager
- Monitor status of raw materials for color samples and partner with Raw Material Design and manager on identification of raw materials that are not meeting cost or quality standards
- Request color samples for Style Review meetings
- Work with manager to ensure product meets QA and FFP standards by partnering with Bra Product Development team for launch pathway styles and vendors for core/fashion styles
- Work with manager on vendor hind-sighting regarding on-time sample performance, quality and communication
- Close working relationship with New York Design, Design Operations, Print, Color and Concept, Raw Material Design Merchandising, Textile Technology, Production and Sourcing, regional offices and vendors
- Creation of highly polished, print ready art assets
- 3D asset manipulation and rendering
- 3 years’ experience in the publishing, graphics, or
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently in a team independently
- Must be able to take direction, conceptualize, design, and organize marketing projects on your own when needed
- 1+ year professional experience in digital production and pre-press preparation
- 1-2 years experience in digital production and pre-press preparation
- Candidate must be a team player and contribute to meeting the objectives set by the department
Production Artist Job Description
- Retouching in-game imagery for print
- Graphical design including logo design, layout, presentation design
- High volume product image clipping, liquefy, color and skin tone correction, and web optimization
- Performs production art duties that entail clipping, liquefy, color correction, skin tone retouching, compositing and web optimizing
- Tracks special launch product lifecycle from photography to live on site
- Manages product image archive on local and Scene 7 Image servers
- Communicates with web merchandising and copy team on daily upload item list and upload finished product images to the website
- Performs layout of monthly and quarterly publications for specified print deadlines
- Serves as back-up in layout of the weekly Investment Alert as needed
- Gathers and assembles mailers, ads, invitations, and other materials as requested
- Ability to draw a plus
- Must have submitted an online portfolio demonstrating a strong graphic design background in order to be considered
- Job entails producing hang tags, packaging, catalogs, data sheets, sales collateral material, creating clipping paths, retouching product images, working with dielines, producing point-of-sale displays and maintaining the image asset library
- Our ideal candidate has exceptional relationship-building skills and will be able to maintain productive, collaborative relationships with both vendors and internal team members
- Strong multitasker who is highly organized and detailed oriented
- Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop (retouch, color correct, write scripts)
Production Artist Job Description
- Obtains pricing quotes from the printers based on project and communicates pricing and options with the ordering individual
- Work collaboratively with engineers, game designers and other artists
- Honor the original Graphic Designer’s intent when converting artwork into effective mechanical files suitable for manufacturing
- Implement markup changes without error when fully actionable
- Understand the manufacturing processes by which a given design/mechanical will be made/distributed (as communicated by the Production Manager) and be able to create files that facilitate that manufacturing/distribution without error
- Compare incoming samples against specifications to evaluate adherence to critical product elements (color, finish, texture)
- Write print specifications, source suppliers and material samples, release artwork, improve version control, review supplier proofs and archive finished product standards
- Work independently and efficiently, with superb attention to detail, while under pressure, within aggressive deadlines
- Photograph pre-production samples for directive notes, and final production samples for design award submissions
- Responsible for release of all high resolution imagery
- Extensive working knowledge of Photoshop, Maya and Zbrush or comparable
- Knowledge of up to and including the most recent version of Illustrator (Macintosh) required
- Good command of typography
- Adobe Creative Cloud InDesign (style sheets, understanding of 4C process, master pages, packaging layouts)
- Adobe Creative Cloud 6 Illustrator
- Thorough understanding of our workflow and our manufacturing capabilities in order to analyze and solve complex graphic art design/production problems