Description
Matte Painter
DescriptionIn this role the Matte Painter will be responsible for painting photo environments, elements and textures for matching into live action plates or could stand as their own matte painting plates.
Required Skills & Experience
- Expert working knowledge of photoshop
- A minimum of 3 years VFX industry experience as a digital matte painter in a feature film, tv or commercials environment
- Experience creating digital paintings of photo realistic environments based on concept art and/or photo reference
- Demonstrable experience integrating matte painting’s into 3D environments using Maya and/or Nuke is beneficial
- Possess a strong understanding of light, colour and perspective
- Possess excellent artistic communication skills as well as an excellent eye for detail
- Sound knowledge and understanding of visual effects pipelines, production and implementation, as well as the ability to work well in a team
- A good understanding of 2D and 3D workflows within a feature film environment
- Knowledge of Vue software a plus
- Maya and Nuke software a plus
Modeler / Sculpture
DescriptionIn this role you will be responsible to create models (character, set, props) by following the creative direction the designated supervisor. You must also fully comprehend the requirements on the designs thereby creating models true to their designs, whether organic or mechanical in nature.
Responsibilities:
- 1 – 3 years Modeling experience for feature films/games and/or television.
- Vast knowledge of basic expression setup
- Excellent knowledge of displacement map and normal map generation
- Excellent knowledge of material, texturing, and Maya 2011 shader use
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize
- Knowledge of keyframe animation.
- Excellent knowledge of polygonal and patch geometry modeling
Required Software Competencies
- Maya 2011
- Z-brush
- Mudbox
- Adobe Photoshop ??
- 3D Studio Max
- Nuke or Shake Compositing software
- Massive
Nuke Compositor
DescriptionIn this role you will integrate CG elements and matte paintings into live action plates. This will encompass matching color, lighting and exposure of stock elements to rendered or photographed elements, matte extractions from blue/green screen photography, transform and warp elements as needed, 2D/3D camera tracking, grain and degrain as necessary, paint fixes and rotoscoping as well as matte edge processing and integration.
Job Requirements
- 4 years of node based compositing software experience (Nuke, Shake, Fusion)
- Experience with Keylight, Primatte or Ultimatte
- Knowledge of projection mapping
- Maya knowledge a plus
- Sound aesthetic with good understanding of color, contrast and lighting design
- Knowledge of film resolution and aspect ratios
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Team player with great attitude
- Dependable and flexible
- Takes direction well
- Exercises close attention to detail
FX Artist (Houdini)
Description:
In this role you will design and animate high quality, photo-real effects (dust, fire, smoke, explosions, debris, clouds, etc.) that will meet all technical and aesthetic standards for the project. You will integrate created elements into scenes with lighting, shadows and reflections, from which you will work closely with Lighting Artist and Compositors to ensure all effects will work smoothly within the show pipeline.
Requirements:
- Degree in Animation, Arts, Fine Arts or equivalent production experience
- Working knowledge of Houdini
- Knowledge of any and/or all of the following: rigid body and particle dynamics, volume modeling and rendering, procedural geometry generation and fluid dynamics
- Strong understanding of physical dynamics and natural phenomena
- Experience with one or more other professional software packages such as Maya, Nuke is a plus
- Proficiency in shading and rendering techniques, ideally both Mantra and Renderman
- Python scripting is a plus
Contact
For general recruitment enquiries please contact: la-re8a642cruit0387cing@m26697ethod2fd50studi18bdaos.co017fcmcf
Please bear in mind that due the number of applications we receive, you will only hear back from us regarding suitable applications to open positions.