About the role
Details
- Position: Storyboard Artists
- Hours: As required per board
- Contract: Freelance
- Pay: Competitive per-minute rates available
- Start date: September and October 2026
- End date: December 2027
- Location: Remote artists preferred, in-house at our Bristol studio also considered
- End date for applications: Friday 28th August 2026
- Eligibility: Must be eligible to work in the UK
Overview
A Productions is seeking talented and collaborative Storyboard Artists to join the team on two new 2D preschool animated series:
- The Underglow: Created by Tanya Scott and Sam Morrison, produced in partnership with Finnish animation studio Gigglebug and the BBC as part of BBC Ignite. Focuses on a hidden, magical garden.
- My Friend Maisy, Series 2: Based on the children’s books by Lucy Cousins, produced in conjunction with BBC Studios Kids & Family and Trustbridge Entertainment for Sky.
A Productions is an award-winning animation studio based in central Bristol, prioritizing diversity, inclusion, staff wellbeing, and authentic storytelling.
Responsibilities
- Produce high-quality storyboards in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro from approved scripts and creative briefs.
- Work closely with the Series Director and Storyboard Supervisor to interpret scripts into engaging visual storytelling.
- Create clear, appealing staging, composition and camera work that supports the emotional and comedic beats of each episode.
- Develop expressive character acting and poses appropriate for a preschool audience while maintaining consistency with the series style.
- Revise storyboards in response to creative feedback while maintaining production schedules.
- Collaborate with the Animatic Editor to ensure storyboards translate effectively into polished animatics.
- Organise Storyboard Pro projects to production standards, ensuring scenes, panels, cameras and naming conventions are accurate and consistent.
- Prepare storyboard files that are ready for delivery to our co production partner and compatible with the Harmony production pipeline.
- Liaise with Production, Editorial and Design departments to resolve creative and technical queries.
Skills and Experience
- Proven experience storyboarding for animated television series or feature animation.
- Excellent working knowledge of Toon Boom Storyboard Pro.
- Strong visual storytelling skills with a solid understanding of composition, staging, cinematography and continuity.
- Excellent character acting, posing and facial expression skills.
- Ability to interpret scripts and elevate them through engaging visual storytelling.
- Strong understanding of pacing and shot construction, particularly for preschool audiences.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to respond positively to creative feedback.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple assignments while meeting deadlines.
- Experience working on preschool or children’s animation.
- Understanding of Harmony production workflows and Storyboard Pro project organisation.
- Experience collaborating with overseas production studios.
- Familiarity with production tracking software such as FTrack.
- Experience working closely with editorial teams during the animatic process.
- Passionate about visual storytelling and character performance.
- Creative, imaginative and able to communicate ideas clearly through drawing.
- Organised, reliable and attentive to detail.
- Positive, collaborative and comfortable working within a highly creative production team.
- Adaptable and receptive to feedback while maintaining creative confidence.
- Enthusiastic about producing warm, engaging and entertaining preschool animation.
Benefits and Perks
- Real Living Wage employer
- Half Day Fridays
- Hybrid & remote working
- Wellbeing support
- Massage Monday
- Visibility Hours
- Optional flu jabs
- Christmas Eve holiday bonus
- Summer & Christmas Parties
- Feast Thursday
- Charitable fundraising events
- Dog friendly studio
- Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
- Loyalty holiday bonus scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Life drawing classes
- Part time & job sharing opportunities
- Day off for moving house
- Mentoring schemes
- Snacks
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
A Productions is committed to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive workplace. Applications are encouraged from people whose backgrounds and experiences are currently under-represented in the TV industry, including:
- Disabled people (as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
- People from communities that experience racism
- People who are not university educated or had free school meals as a child
The recruitment process is designed to be accessible. Support, adjustments, or information in different formats can be requested via email or by calling Hannah Murdoch, Welfare & HR Manager, at 07796 138559.