Who are we looking for?
Are you interested in further developing yourself in programming and creatively devising a graphic software package? Are you someone who gets excited about coding for projects such as games, visual effects or animations, and likes to work within a dynamic creative design process? Then we would like to invite you for an internship interview!
What are you going to do?
During your internship you will work with our team on our innovative animation software package Lightbender. You will receive ownership and guidance in developing various program components that are in line with your interests and learning objectives. Think of software design, writing shaders, programming for character rigging and deformations, rendering, user interface, logic and more.
Why this internship?
At Lightbender you will be able to further develop yourself as a technician in the creative industry under experienced guidance. You will learn new design patterns and further familiarize yourself with the C programming language. In addition, we can create all the neccesary space for you to work on the learning objectives that you have in mind, because there are many aspects in Lightbender where your input is very welcome.
But who or what is Kalio?
Kalio is an animation studio located in Amsterdam at the Amsteldijk 40D. While overlooking the iconic canals, we work with talent from all over the world to develop animation series and films for children. Kalio's vision is to create mythology for the 21st century. A Kalio story is magical, adventurous and action-packed and rooted in real human emotion.
Subsequently, we develop the innovative animation software Lightbender with Jeroen Koffeman, not only to bring our own stories to life, but also to realize our vision of what high-end top quality 2D character animation can be.
The studio is led by founder Arthur van Merwijk and producer Coen Balkestein.
We look forward to reviewing your portfolio and welcoming you to our team.
Intended objective
As the development of our software is now in it's beta phase and showing very promising results we are expanding the team and starting to add different feautures. This creates space for you as an intern to join the team and help co-develop the software with us, and as there's still many things to be added and designed there's still a lot of freedom on which part you can focus, leaving you to explore and work on your personal learning objectives within our software.
Desired end result of the assignment
The desired result we have in mind is a close collaborative workrelationship in which you feel free to take the initiative to propose new ideas and to conduct research that is of significance to the development of our software. In the best cast scenario you have ownership of your own features in the software that you continuely test together with the creative and technical team in a dynamic design cycle, creating many iterations untill their initial idea starts to flourish.
Usefull knowledge, skills, experience, competencies and attitude
Within an intern we are looking for the following:
- Previous coding experience, this can be any language eventhough the software is written in C++.
- An interest in coding for graphic software/applications, this can be quite broad ranging from games to apps to design programmes.
- An interest in working in a dynamic and fast changing project where different features are quickly added, tested and iterated.
- That you can work independently to conduct research and excecute tasks while being available to communicate with the team to share updates and give a heads up whenever an obstacle or question occurs.
- That you don't mind working in our office. We are however open to partly working from home if so desired by you.
Interested or questions?
Shoot us a message at our contact info on our website: https://kaliostories.com/