Toronto Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Job Description

As an Artistic Director Visual Design at Ubi MTL, you are in charge of the quality and content of graphic and audiovisual productions. You will ensure that the elements produced are aligned with the game’s vision and propose creative and innovative ideas and concepts.

Collaborating closely with artists and designers across production teams, you’ll support them in pushing concepts further, producing consistent work, and enhancing player experiences through impactful visuals.

What you’ll do

• Propose graphic or audiovisual concepts based on the client’s brief in the form of a synopsis, mood board or sketch.
• Define the artistic style of the graphic or audiovisual mandate inspired from the game’s artistic direction (reference films, competing games and design documents).
• Ensure that the artistic vision is communicated through the visual identity.
• Create lit and original concepts that support the game’s positioning with the various project teams.
• Communicate expectations to the production team assigned to the mandate and ensure the quality and content of the ambiances, sets, characters, narration, etc. using visual references and documents that describe the artistic direction.
• Follow up and validate the team’s finished work so the elements produced are in line with the initial brief and the game’s vision, and ensure that the quality is respected.
• Work directly with the project director and artists.
• Produce documents such as GAP (Game Artistic Personality), brief, guide style.

Qualifications

What you bring

• Around 10 years of UI, visual design, branding, or art direction experience (in the video game industry, a huge plus) or other relevant experience
• A degree in Graphic Design, Communications, Multimedia, or equivalent
• An understanding of art fundamentals and artistic culture
• In-depth knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, and 3D software (e.g. 3DS Max)
• The ability to give constructive feedback and to convey an artistic direction + make it a shared goal
• A highly creative, collaborative, and innovative spirit
• Open-mindedness: you’re receptive to new ideas and fresh perspectives
• Solid interpersonal and presentation skills
• Effective cross-departmental communication: you have the know-how to communicate with tech and creative teams alike
• A willingness to roll up your sleeves to get the job done!

What to send our way

• Your CV, highlighting your experience, education, and skills
• A portfolio of your best work (attach images or send us a link to your personal website or online portfolio)

About Us

Additional Information

Ubisoft’s 20,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission: enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come.

Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves.

When you join Ubi MTL, you discover a workplace that sparks inspiration and connection. We offer a collaborative space that provides career advancement, a host of learning opportunities, and meaningful benefits centred on well-being.

If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, harnessing cutting-edge technologies, and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join us on our journey and help us create the unknown.

At Ubisoft, you can come as you are. We embrace diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to fostering a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.
Ubisoft Montréal

ROLE: ART DIRECTOR

TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA

About The Kitchen

The Kitchen is a team of creatives, strategists, producers, designers, content creators and social media managers working directly with brands to deliver breakthrough ideas. What makes us different is the way we work. We leverage our unique position inside Kraft Heinz to drive creativity and agility that’s only possible with trust and collaboration with our brand partners. Sometimes we’re focused on our brands’ biggest briefs and campaigns, and sometimes we’re creating our own briefs inspired by opportunities that arise from culture and current events. Together, we’re breaking down barriers and empowering more –more ideas, from more places, and more opportunities to earn our consumers’ attention, and learn more about them.

Position Summary

In the Art Director role, you and your writing partner will create a wide range of ideas and creative concepts that stand out and earn attention. Your work will range from brand acts that create conversations, to advertising across a range of mediums, to compelling visual stories that stand out on social platforms. You’ll be a key part of a creative process that makes ideas, acts, and experiences that get shared and talked about on social and in the press.

You’ll use your strong concepting and ideation skills to produce great creative ideas and use your strength as a visual storyteller to bring them to life. You’ll translate your ideas (and the team’s concepts) into visuals for social media, digital advertising, and traditional content. You’ll partner with producers to make sure that a wide variety of content is captured and edited in a way that fits the iconic brands you represent. You’ll need a strong understanding of the best-practice design principles for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, but you’ll also need to be comfortable breaking them with innovation that captures attention in new ways. Your experience in traditional mediums will help you raise the quality of work for social, but also work at a pace that fits the dynamic needs of the digital environment. You’ll use your unique skillset and trained eye to inspire the design team around you. Together, you and your team are building a design culture that moves food marketing forward.

Your work will make a meaningful impact with a multi-talented team in North America (Toronto & Chicago) that blurs the lines of what advertising can be in today’s always-on, socially connected industry.

Primary Responsibilities

• ART DIRECTION: Experienced visual expert who elevates the work and level of visual quality that meets high standards.
• INNOVATIVE & TRADITIONAL DESIGN: Work in a wide range of mediums ranging from traditional video and photo content, real world design (experiential) and social media content.
• BRAND DESIGN: Steward the design identity of iconic brands, ensuring they have a consistent look and feel online. You will translate brand strategy into powerful and purposeful creative concepts and are the final voice in ensuring these brands have consistently high-quality execution across all mediums.
• IDEATION: Actively participate in brainstorms with positive energy and dimensional thinking that leverages research and brand insights. Ability to articulate how we can bring ideas to life visually and able to think broadly about big ideas. Proactively seeks out current and upcoming new digital and design trends and best practices.
• PRESENTATION DESIGN: Manage a team to create compelling visual stories and get hands-on as required to design those presentation decks that sell through big ideas. Develops storyboards and presentation decks that help preview the creative ideas we want to make.
• COLLABORATION: Work as a part of a cross-functional design team, and as part of a larger creative team. Comfortable in an iterative environment.
• WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT: Can manage multiple priorities and assignments in a fast-paced, active environment to deliver high quality work, on time and with accuracy. Knows how to delegate work and manage a team’s capacity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in advertising, with a focus on ideation and concepting for brand acts, stunts, and storytelling. You have experience as an Art Director with a proven track record of leading other Designers and stewarding brands.
• A diverse portfolio showcasing examples of work you have created yourself, as well as work created by a team you managed. Your portfolio includes examples of strategic/conceptual thinking, visual design, and storytelling, and innovative social work that elevates the medium.
• College or University diploma in Art, Visual Communication Design, Advertising and/or Art Direction
• The ability to execute concepts at a level that is among the top tier in the industry.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Exposure to Art Direction, Photo Shoots, and UI/UX are an advantage.
• Proficient using Mac OS, Adobe Creative Cloud (Expert knowledge of Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign), SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (or Keynote).
• Passion for food and food design with an insatiable curiosity to learn more about it
• A desire to do award-winning, internationally recognized work

The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability

The Kitchen

Company Description

This role is currently an open call. We are accepting submitted applications and will reach out when active recruitment for role is open. Please expect a delay in outreach as we are currently not actively recruiting for this position

Mikros Animation is a global CGI animation studio located in Paris, Montreal, Los Angeles, Bangalore and London, dedicated to feature films and episodic content. Since its inception, Mikros Animation has always put creativity and CG artistry at the heart of its animation and production activities, allowing our artists to work across a great variety of stories with a high level of stylized craft. So far, Mikros Animation has contributed to ten released feature animations and to numerous high-quality animated series, for the world’s best-known animation studios, either as creative studio, line producer or executive producer. Mikros Animation has also produced more than 250 hours of programming, broadcast by notable channels including Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, TF1, France TV, Gulli, M6, Gloob, and Super RTL. Our animated episodic content airs and streams globally, in over 180 countries.

At Mikros Animation, we believe great animation is about making real connections with real people. By partnering with filmmakers to unite their creative visions, with our industry-leading craftsmanship and artistry, we create characters that connect with audiences on an authentic and emotional level to bring powerful stories to life.

Job Description

Mikros is looking for an experienced Art Director to work on an exciting new animated feature film. We are looking for someone with a proven track record of creative leadership, great interpersonal skills and animation production experience at a senior level, who is excited by the prospect of setting the visual direction for this ambitious movie in close collaboration with the director and production designer.

• Driving and managing the visual development of all of the movie’s design requirements.
• Effectively communicating the visual direction of the movie, by providing and sourcing relevant imagery and documentation.
• Collaborating with our director and carefully interpreting his feedback to ensure we meet our creative brief.
• Supervising a talented design department in generating art for our characters, sets and props as well as establishing mood, color language and lighting for our movie.
• Providing clear, concise and detailed direction to your design team for their assignments.
• Collaborating closely with other department supervisors and reviewing designs, models, surfacing, the color script, set dressing and light keys to ensure we meet the high production standards we expect to deliver to our clients.
• Providing clear and practical feedback to ensure the visual direction remains consistent for the duration of the production.
• Prioritizing, problem solving and finding efficient and effective solutions to allow us to complete the production to schedule and to budget.
• Developing and nurturing the skills and abilities of all the digital artists in your team.
• Have the ability to work to deadlines, be comfortable under pressure and able to effectively manage, motivate and develop your team and their skills.
• Collaborate closely with the production team to stay aligned with the production’s overall goals.

Qualifications

• Have proven experience working in animated features or television in Art & Design departments in a senior role.
• Have art directed (or acted in a similar role) at least one animated feature film.
• Be an excellent artist in their own right, as demonstrated through past work and/or their portfolio.
• Have a clear understanding of the steps and processes involved in creating and taking 2D designs all the way from concept through to final image in a 3D pipeline.
• Knowledge of drawing software including Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Knowledge in Maya is a plus.

Additional Information

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If you require assistance applying, please reach out to [email protected] and we’ll be happy to assist.

TECHNICOLOR IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Technicolor complies and prohibits against discrimination on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, medical condition (including genetic characteristics), mental and/or physical disability or handicap, marital status, sex, age, veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, political party preference, political belief, socioeconomic status, familial status, registered domestic partner status, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions and any other characteristic or activity protected by federal, state/provincial or local law.
Mikros Animation

POSITION DESCRIPTION

ROLE: Art Director/Copywriter (Looking for 1 Intermediate pair and 1 Senior pair)

TEAM: THE KITCHEN NORTH AMERICA

*Please note, this is for 2 separate positions. Consideration will only be given to those applying as a team, both an Art Director and a Copywriter*

ART DIRECTOR/COPYWRITER TEAM

The Kitchen is looking for an award-winning and innovative Art Director and Copywriter team at both an Intermediate and a Senior level. You will be joining a team changing the way Kraft Heinz creates breakthrough creative and experiences.

ABOUT THE KITCHEN

What is The Kitchen?

The Kitchen is an agile team of brand-building creatives, strategists, designers, producers, content creators, business management team, and social media managers working together to deliver remarkable ideas across a range of mediums. What makes us unique is the way we work: sometimes we’re working on our brands’ biggest briefs, and sometimes we create our own briefs from the opportunities that arise from culture and current events. We leverage our unique position as an agency built inside Kraft Heinz to make work that’s only possible with agility and quick collaboration with brands.

POSITION SUMMARY

This Creative team is made up of two dedicated partners whose out-of-the-box ideas and delivery are on the same wavelength and in constant sync. This pair will create a wide range of ideas and creative concepts that stand out and earn attention. The work will range from brand acts that create conversations, to advertising across a range of mediums, to compelling visual stories that stand out on social platforms. This duo will be a key part of a creative process that makes ideas, acts, and experiences that get shared and talked about on social and in the press. Together, you and the team are building a design culture that moves food marketing forward.

As the Copywriter, you will understand how to craft a headline-inspiring brand act, how to write attention-grabbing copy, and how to tell stories across a diverse range of mediums enabling you to tackle a variety of interesting and exciting challenges. Your experience in a variety of mediums, from traditional to social means that you have a wide lens for solving problems, breaking down norms, and delivering ideas that are interesting and disruptive. You know how to translate insights into copy that make people pay attention.

As the Art Director, you’ll use your strong concepting and ideation skills to produce great creative ideas and use your strength as a visual storyteller to bring them to life. You’ll translate your ideas (and the team’s concepts) into visuals for social media, digital advertising, and traditional content. You’ll partner with producers to make sure that a wide variety of content is captured and edited in a way that fits the iconic brands you represent. You’ll need a strong understanding of the best-practice design principles for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, but you’ll also need to be comfortable breaking them with innovation that captures attention in new ways. Your experience in traditional mediums will help you raise the quality of work for social but also work at a pace that fits the dynamic needs of the digital environment. You’ll use your unique skillset and trained eye to inspire the design team around you.

As a team, your work will make a meaningful impact with a multi-talented team in North America (Toronto & Chicago) that blurs the lines of what advertising can be in today’s always-on, socially connected industry.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• CREATIVE IDEATION: Supports the team by creating idea-driven, world-class creative that dares to be better, and encourages the entire team to think bigger, faster, and more innovatively. Develops big ideas with a focus on storytelling, working with your team to push ideas forward and fuel the team’s creative output.
• INNOVATION: Invents and creates cutting-edge ideas. Helps drive social innovation and digital ideas from the team around them with proven fluency in social-first content creation.
• COLLABORATION: Acts with optimism and a love for the next big challenge, works with a creative partner, creative lead, and a team of designers, producers, social media managers and strategists to ensure that The Kitchen is a collaborative place for producing great ideas as one integrated team.
• BRAND STEWARDSHIP: Cares for the tone and spirit of the brands The Kitchen represents, working to ensure the creative tone and social presence of brands are both distinctive and ownable to the brand. Ability to turn brand data into compelling messages and create strategically sound brand stories.
• ADAPTABILITY: Demonstrates resiliency in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment where ideas and opportunities happen fast and require flexibility.

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• 5-8 years of relevant agency experience with a focus on creative ideation capacity and a proven track record and portfolio of work
• Ability to come up with cutting-edge concepts and executions
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and simplify complex situations. You are comfortable creating your own brief from an insight for a quick ideation session or to quickly create a concept.
• Experimentation mindset, embracing new creative technologies, media platforms, and trends.
• A high level of curiosity, awareness, and enthusiasm for the unique world of online culture.
• Highly organized with an ability to work under tight deadlines and shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Proficient using Mac OS, Adobe Creative Cloud (Expert knowledge of Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign), SharePoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (or Keynote).
• Passion for food and food design with an insatiable curiosity to learn more about it
• A desire to do award-winning, internationally recognized work

The Kitchen, Kraft Heinz, and Salt are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees regardless of race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age or disability

The Kitchen

Position: Art Director

Location: Hybrid

Starts: September 2022

Duration: Full-Time

Status: Full-Time

Rate: Up to $90,000 per year

Our agency client is looking for an Art Director to join their team, on a fulltime basis. This will be an onsite hybrid role (2x per week in Mississauga).

What you’ll be doing:

• Ideating 360 degree campaigns for reputable retail, CPG and food clients,
• Working with clients and a full in-house creative team.
• Art directing photo shoots & video shoots
• Illustrating storyboards, briefing clients, and creating actionable plans to deliver the creative.
• Overseeing and collaborating with Designers, Production Designers, fellow ADs, and Copywriters.
• Sketching and ideating storyboards
• Working on set with creatives!

Skills needed:

• A portfolio showcasing your AD skills: photo shoots, video shoots, conceptual/ideation
• 4+ years of experience
• Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Client-facing skills

#IND123

Submit resume (and samples if applicable) to: [email protected]

Creative Circle

JOB DESCRIPTION – CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Job Type:         Part-time (25 hours / week M-F)

Pay:                 $50-$65 / hr

Location:          Choice of Offices (Toronto / Vaughan / Oakville), with some days Remote

Reports to:       CEO

We are looking for a creative leader to join our fast-growing organization: Someone who can push our creative boundaries, drive an emotional connection with our customers and elevate our organization!

What You Will Do

• Direct the overall creative strategy to build increased brand awareness of Ultramatic and increase our overall return on ad spend
• Finetune our brand guidelines to support our corporate values, ensuring all internal and external digital executions adhere to the brand standards harmoniously
• Articulate our brand look and personality for different customer avatars / segments
• Develop create assets that promote our products and explain their benefits, for digital and print media as well as in-store merchandising
• Be responsible for the creation of copy, graphic design, photography, advertisements, emails, and video – for use on our website, landing pages, ppc platforms, social media sites, print, SMS and TV
• Oversee the marketing calendar and go-to-market plan for all product and category launches, promotions and campaigns
• Periodically, lead the redesign and UX of our website, ecommerce flow, social media sites, and in-store customer experience
• Lead process to recruit and evaluate creative vendors and new hires
• Be the lead creative contact with our SEO, PPC and Website contractors and agencies
• Participate in a cross-functional team that maps out the ideal customer journey for each customer avatar and articulates the value each customer segment seeks to receive from Ultramatic
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders in sales, operations, and finance to support their roles and identify synergies
• Oversee the budget for creative services and advise stakeholders on the most effective use of the budget to achieve the objectives

Who You Are

• University/College degree in Marketing, Design or related field, with a diploma in Graphic Design
• 6+ years of art/creative direction experience in an agency or 8+ years in an internal creative department
• Experience with brand building through creative ideation and technical execution
• Demonstrated capabilities in creative software and copy writing (Figma, Sketch, Canva, Adobe creative suite, Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop + Animate, Premiere and After Effects, Anyword, etc)
• Media production experience (print, video, web, etc)
• Team player who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves for any task
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must have an online portfolio for viewing
• Organized self-directed and able to manage multiple and complex projects in a timely manner
• Global awareness of visual trends
• Experience in the furniture industry or with the senior demographic is a bonus

Ultramatic Canada Corp.

Our agency client is looking for an Art Director to join their team, on a fulltime basis. This will be an onsite hybrid role (2-3x per week in Mississauga).

What you’ll be doing:

– Ideating 360 degree campaigns for reputable retail, CPG and food clients,

– Working with clients and a full in-house creative team.

– Art directing photo shoots & video shoots

– Illustrating storyboards, briefing clients, and creating actionable plans to deliver the creative.

– Overseeing and collaborating with Designers, Production Designers, fellow ADs, and Copywriters.

– Sketching and ideating storyboards

– Working on set with creatives!

Skills needed:

– A portfolio showcasing your AD skills: photo shoots, video shoots, conceptual/ideation

– 4+ years of experience

– Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

– Client-facing skills

Creative Circle

THE DONERNORTH EXPERIENCE

Join DonerNorth! We are a new agency, having brought together UNION Creative and 6Degrees in December 2021. With deep competencies in brand storytelling, shopper marketing, experiential and packaging, we believe that ideas need to be as impactful creatively as they are commercially. Our list of clients includes a wide range of internationally recognized consumer packaged goods, retail and alcohol/beer. We like to say that DonerNorth is where the big idea gets its hands dirty, meaning we help our clients solve issues from insight, strategy and creative through to execution. We are a passionate, friendly, inclusive, professional, and growing agency, and our office is located in the heart of downtown Toronto at Church and Bloor.

THE OPPORTUNITY

DonerNorth is on the market for an awesome intermediate to senior creative team. We’re looking for a dynamic duo with a passion to create award-winning work, who also has experience across all media – TV, outdoor, print, and innovating in the digital space. Get ready to tackle some killer briefs, using your brilliant minds to create campaigns that meet the client’s expectations and beyond. In addition to this, we’re looking for team players who want to contribute to the greater agency good and have a little fun along the way. So, if this sounds like your cup of tea, we’ll put the kettle on. Talk to us!

Copywriter Role

• A conceptual thinker who spells real good (plus, other writing skills.)
• Has the ability to turn briefs into insightful, effective and thought-provoking campaigns
• Skilled in developing brand tone and voice across multiple platforms (television, radio, print, social, etc.)
• Works well with Client Services and Strategic Planning teams to help build marketing and creative strategies for a variety of brand campaigns
• Good multi-tasker, working on several campaigns at once, under pressure and on tight deadlines, who never complains about it! …Just kidding. We love to whine. Especially on Fridays. 😉
• Understands the production process including casting, partnering with production companies and directors, as well as working with typographers, designers and printers
• Can sell the shit out of a creative idea, passionately and persuasively
• Keeps up with the Kardashians, and other less relevant cultural trends
• Positive, forward-thinker who contributes to office culture and morale. And can tell a joke or two! Or, at least laugh at ours
• Does not wear socks to bed

Art Director Role:

• A conceptual thinker who can design real good
• A keen eye and technical ability to create well-crafted layouts and artwork using the entire Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience in briefing, supervising and supporting studio on individual projects
• Good multi-tasker, working on several campaigns at once, under pressure and on tight deadlines, who never complains about it! (well, maybe you and your partner can take turns complaining, but never at the same time…)
• Up to date on all current design and cultural trends
• Understands the production process including casting, partnering with production. companies and directors, as well as working with typographers, designers and printers
• Works well with Client Services and Strategic Planning teams to help build marketing and creative strategies for a variety of brand campaigns
• Excellent at explaining and fighting to design options, decisions, and strategies across the organization – usually to non-designers (they need all the help they can get.)
• Great at developing and translating brand identities across multiple platforms
• A passion for experimentation with new tools and processes as well as researching new approaches and techniques
• Doesn’t heat up fish in the microwave at work because that’s an abomination

DonerNorth is an equal opportunity employer. We are a culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion.

In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, a request for accommodation will be considered throughout the hiring process.

We thank all applicants but must advise that only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

DonerNorth

We need the best. This isn’t a tactic or an enticement, this is a gate. Our clients expect next level shit, and we aim to deliver more than they expect. Our company culture is built on “great is not good enough. Always aim for awesome.” Period. Better, smarter, faster. If you think you fit this description reach out. tension

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