• To lead, design and develop inspiring seasonal print collections across Womenswear, Menswear and Home categories, creating a strong and distinct handwriting for each brand and the customer. 
• The delivery and creative output of the print and pattern collections.  
• Working alongside the wider design and buying team to proactively and confidently lead and implement the print directions.  
• Interpreting the trends in a strong and compelling, yet commercial and appropriate way.  

• Well organised, flexible and able to work at pace in a multi-category and multi-brand setting.  
• Great communication skills and thrive in a supportive team environment.  
• Willing to travel overseas, and UK-wide as required to visit trade fairs and similar inspirational trips. 
• Have a real passion, energy and enthusiasm for print design, supported by proven designer experience, ideally within a similar team environment. 
• Have a detailed knowledge and experience of using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. 

Salary: Â£28,000 per annum

Contract Type: Full Time. Permanent

Location: Remote

JOB OVERVIEW

This is a fantastic job opportunity for a Digital Designer to join the Study Group Online team. As we continue to expand our digital learning portfolio, you will join at the very early stages of several exciting online projects that will have a significant positive impact across our global network. To succeed, you’ll need meticulous attention to detail, and be driven to ensure that you can deliver to deadlines across multiple projects. The job role will be varied and comes with lots of opportunities to develop as you work with a variety of different teams including creative services and Media Producers. This is a stable job role, within a new team that has been rapidly expanding. If you have an interest in developing digital learning products and want to work in a unique working environment that offers autonomy and opportunity, this is a role worth exploring.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Digital Designer is responsible for ensuring the highest quality visual design in the online courses that we produce.
• The role works with Study Group’s Creative Services team to ensure that the courses we produce align with each university's brand, and creates the style guides used by our media production team.
• The Digital Designer produces assets such as images for our videos and course screens, interactive and downloadable documents and also manages freelance designers.

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of producing end-to-end content and see a project through from inception to delivery
• Experience of being responsible for a vast range of assets used across multiple projects
• Experience of digital production (of digital learning products is desirable)
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, with an emphasis on Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, After Effects and to a lesser degree InDesign’

KEY BENEFITS

• Competitive salaries
• A 25-day holiday (For full time) allowance that is not restricted to outside of term time.
• Enhanced pension scheme, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, Wellbeing centre, and much more.

ABOUT US

Study Group is the leading provider of international education, driving success for our students and partners. We believe in a better world through education and work with universities which are as motivated by driving student success and outcomes as we are. Study Group works with leading universities across the UK, Europe, North America and Australasia. We nurture ambitious students from diverse academic backgrounds and prepare them for success at their chosen university through our on-campus International Study Centres.

ORGANISATIONAL COMPLIANCE

Study Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students, and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same dedication. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the role, including checks with past employers, an Enhanced Check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and overseas criminal records if appropriate.

Study Group processes your information in line with data protection regulations. Please see our Privacy Policy.

***We adopt a rolling recruitment process meaning that we review applications as they are submitted. To avoid disappointment, please ensure that you apply asap.*** 

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The Senior CFX Artist is responsible for simulating cloth, hair, fur, feathers as well as muscle and skin deformation across multiple types of projects. Working closely with the CFX Lead, CG-supervisor and director to ensure various simulations fits the purpose of the story as well as elevating the characters connection to its surroundings. With Houdini being the main CFX software for the studio, the Senior CFX artist will use Axis Houdini CFX pipeline and toolsets in order to create simpler set-ups as well as simulate various CFX in shot production.

The Senior CFX Artist needs to have a good understanding of fabric attributes as well as weight and scale.

Key Responsibilities 

• Set up and run Cloth, Hair, Fur, Feather and Muscles simulations.
• Work together with the CFX Lead and CFX Technical Directors to implement solutions adoptable by the whole team across multiple projects, assets, and platforms.
• Communicate with the Modelling team to ensure that the models are suitable for simulation.
• Prototype and implement new solutions, following the standard of our pipeline and contributing to its maintenance.
• Meet delivery deadlines under production constraints.
• Document and present their own work to the rest of the team and be able to mentor them.
• When required be assigned to simpler FX or Rigging tasks during production ensuring exceptional standards, building and improving animation rigs or supporting on foliage or other types of FX where tool requirements is similar to CFX

Required Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication and time management skills.
  
• Excellent knowledge of Houdini and/or Maya.
• Experience with,Cloth, Fur, Feathers and Muscle simulation.
• Being self-reliant and able to judge and review your own work.
• Solid asset building skills, including modeling and rigging.
• Ability to problem solve and predict potential problems with assigned tasks.
• A thorough understanding of the techniques and technologies relating to CFX simulation and procedural animation.
• A familiarity with scripting e.g. vex, Python, hscript is required.

Introduction

Over the next year, we will be looking to partner with new freelance artist/animators to help expand our product base of educational games and playful apps - now being used by millions of children.

Our plan is to build a list of potential creative partners we could work with in the future. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. 

About Teach Your Monster

We make high quality educational apps for kids.  Our flagship product is Teach Your Monster to Read: a multiple BAFTA award-nominated educational app, one of the world's leading literacy products played by over 1 million children every month.

https://vimeo.com/157426386

We are now in the process of developing new apps and games for kids aged 4 and upwards, both in reading and in other areas of learning and development.

Teach Your Monster Games are a non-profit company, funded by the founder of Usborne Publishing.

Job Description

Teach Your Monster are looking for multi-skilled freelance illustrator & animators with experience in expressive creature and character design, background design as well as excellent compositional and colour skills. Artists/animators will be used to working in vector art and ideally have experience in delivering assets for games. 

Apps used in production will most likely be Illustrator, Photoshop, Unity, Animate with the possibility of using Spine, Blender or Affinity. Details will be confirmed when establishing the art pipeline.

Our teams are small (2-3 members) and work remotely but we are looking for a UK based illustrator/animators as there will be a number of on site meetings over the course of production (possibly London).

Roles will be a short term contracts of 2-3 months part-time for 3-4 days per week.

Teach Your Monster Art Style

You don't have to have made stuff for kids before, but we are looking for people that make things that are delightful, funny, with great characters and story. 

We're not looking to emulate our current art style, but are looking for artists with a sense of style and design sense that will complement the existing products. Each Teach Your Monster product will have a different artist defining the look and feel, but that each product will still fit the umbrella brand through some stylistic choices and careful curation of artists and art direction. 

Below we have identified a few qualities that we think help define a Teach Your Monster product:

• It should look like a top tier game or animated show aimed at kids, not dry or cheap which can be an issue in some educational products.
• There should be a quality to the design and world building that is fun and inspires delight in the players. They will want to spend time in the ‘world', with the characters, and return again and again.
• The style can be flexible, but to maintain some consistency it should be flat and colourful, lacking outlines and with a similar level of detail to the original game.
• Having said the above don't be constrained creatively or otherwise by what's been done before. We want to see your ideas and approach.

Below are a few images we have assembled as part of our mood board to give an idea of styles that could work under the Teach Your Monster umbrella.

Above are a few of our favourite designs from Teach Your Monster to Read. The Hungry Beast at top right is a particular favourite for it's expressiveness, boldness and colour.

Four images from our moodboard, looking at styles might complement the current product. They have been selected for their qualities — colour, shapes, character design, simplicity, etc.

What we will be doing

Over the next year, we will be creating some new products and prototypes, with the most promising projects moving through to full development.

These will be focussing on new areas of learning and development for children, which could be anything from maths to mental wellbeing.

We're looking to build contacts with the right kind of people so we have creative partners ready to collaborate with when concepts move to the development stage.

How we work with people

We work hard at Teach Monster Games to make a great culture for the people working with us:

• High autonomy - we find the best people and let them work in their own ways.
  
• Not deadline driven and against crunch.
• Team members mainly work remotely with occasional face to face meetings (mainly London).
• Flexible on when we work together hours-wise and very parent-friendly

Interested?

Send a short summary of your experience, a link to your portfolio and point us to the projects that are most relevant to us. If projects come up that look relevant to your experience, we'll be in touch!

More information about the organisation

• Find out more about our funders and priorities at The Usborne Foundation website.
• Find out more about Teach Your Monster to Read.