Creative Assistant

Strange Beast is a full-service animation production studio based in London. Our work is led by our talented roster of directors, each bringing their own unique style and distinctive tone of voice. We are proud to be part of the PASSION group – an independent production company formed in 1987.

This role is aimed either at an entry-level individual or someone with around a year’s experience working within the industry – an individual with a passion for animation, who is curious about both creative and production career pathways.

The role

Duties & responsibilities include:

• Designing director decks and general capability decks with the guidance of our treatment designer, and updating Pitch documents and material.
• Researching and compiling image & motion references to support the pitch process.
• Supporting and coordinating New Business team activities, working closely with EPs and Creative Producer.
• Managing diaries and scheduling meetings for EPs.
• Booking rooms for all calls for office working days.
• Sending out Zoom/Teams call invites.
• Capturing notes of briefing calls and other internal/external calls.
• Helping book travel and accommodation for sales trips.
• Adding new enquiries onto our database and maintaining pertinent information.
• Creating new enquiry/pitch folders on our server and maintaining our illustration and creative contacts database.
• Working with new business production team to search, book and liaise with artists and crew during the pitch process.

The criteria

The ideal candidate:

• Has a keen interest in illustration, design & animation across all techniques
• Is highly organised
• Is a creative thinker
• Has a huge appetite to learn
• Enjoys working collaboratively

Find out more

Register and attend our information session for more about the role and the agency here: New Business Creative Assistant at Strange Beast – Information Session

When: Monday 14 October at 10am