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Award-winning visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic is once again heading to SIGGRAPH, as it seeks to gather candidates for its new Vancouver animation studio due to open in late 2015.

The annual SIGGRAPH conference – taking place from 9-13 August 2015 in Los Angeles, California (http://s2015.siggraph.org/) – represents an ideal opportunity for potential candidates to meet with Animal Logic’s recruitment team, who will be attending the event’s Job Fair from Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 August.

Following the announcement that Animal Logic is opening up a second animation studio in Vancouver, Canada, the company is looking to fill around 300 roles across the production pipeline, with Siggraph providing a key focus on technical and software roles.

“Siggraph is an important event for us and an important audience,” said Animal Logic’s Recruitment Supervisor, Patricia Kung. “In 2015, we are especially keen to hear from talented Associate Producers, Production Managers, Senior System Engineers, CG Supervisors, Software Developers and Technical Directors who would like to come and hear more about working for one of the largest independent digital studios in the world.”

Although the team will be at the Siggraph Job Fair, interested candidates are encouraged to head to the Animal Logic website (www.animallogic.com/careers) where they can register their interest prior to the event.

After the show, the team will also be heading directly to Vancouver from 17 August, interviewing Senior Finance and HR professionals, Associate Producers, Production Managers, Senior System Engineers, CG Supervisors, Software Developers, Senior Department TD's and Supervisory/Lead artists from Assets to Lighting, all of whom will begin work on The LEGO Movie Sequel, scheduled to start production at Animal Logic Vancouver in January 2016.

However, as Patricia is keen to point out, the opportunities are not just in Vancouver, with Animal Logic’s Sydney studio looking to fill a significant number of key roles as it ramps up production on LEGO Batman and Ninjago, as well as its growing slate of Visual FX projects.

“From Software Developers to Digital Artists, the available positions at our Sydney, Australia, studio also represent an amazing opportunity for those currently working in the visual effects and animation industries.”

If you are interested to find out more about Animal Logic, head over to the website at www.animallogic.com

About ANIMAL LOGIC
Established in 1991, Animal Logic is one of the world's most highly respected digital production studios, producing award-winning design, animation and visual effects for the film and television industries.

Animal Logic’s film credits include The Lego® Movie, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Insurgent, Unbroken, Walking with Dinosaurs: The Movie, The Great Gatsby, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Matrix, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, 300, Happy Feet and House of Flying Daggers. Animal Logic recently finished production on Chen Kaige’s, Monk comes down the Mountain (2015), and is currently in production on LEGO Batman (2017) and Ninjago (2017).

As part of the Animal Logic group of companies, Animal Logic Entertainment is developing a strong slate of innovative, commercially minded, story driven projects stamped with the visual and technical innovation that has become the hallmark of the studio’s work. The development slate, while eclectic and diverse, has a core focus on tent pole, 4-quadrant feature animation and hybrid animation projects as well as filmmaker driven and visually arresting live action films.

With studios in Sydney, Los Angeles and Vancouver, and represented by CAA, Animal Logic continues to forge new partnerships and collaborations with leading studios and filmmakers to develop and produce stories that resonate with a global audience.  For more information visit our website www.animallogic.com.