Hasta La Motion!

Two time Academy Award winner for Achievement in Visual Effects and three time recipient of the Scientific and Technical Achievement award, Rhythm & Hues is uniquely poised for the demands of the highly competitive visual effects and character animation industry. At the heart of Rhythm & Hues’ success is its more than 20 year commitment to creating quality entertainment in a quality work environment.

A few current and upcoming feature projects include amongst others, "Hop", "X-Men: First Class" and "Life of Pi".

Position: Pipeline Programmer

Department: Pipeline

Position Summary:

Work with the Pipeline group to architect and develop production tools and supporting modules in a Perl scripting language environment. Projects include studio-wide and production-specific tool development, as well as continued development of the core pipeline support modules and sub-systems. This position reports to the Pipeline Programming Lead and the Department Manager.

Required Skills:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Solid understanding of software design methodologies
• Object-oriented software design experience
• Strong scripting language experience (eg. Perl, Python)
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Excellent documentation skills
• Excellent UNIX skills
• Knowledge of relational database design and implementation

Desired Skills:

• 2+ years experience in software development
• Familiarity with computer graphics application software (eg. Maya, Houdini, Shake, etc)
• Computer animation and/or visual effects industry experience
• Web development experience

Qualified candidate please mail or email a resume & cover letter to:

Rhythm & Hues Studios
Recruiting Department
re: Pipeline Programmer position
2100 East Grand Ave, Bldg A
El Segundo, CA 90245

recruitment@rhythm.com
re: Pipeline Programmer Position

www.rhythm.com

Thanks!!

Changing Deco – 1st Test from ARDMedia on Vimeo.
It was a test video for a presentation to a Catalan company, who we wanted to show our 3D capabilities.

Un pequeño video de test para presentar a una empresa catalana, a quiénes queríamos demostrar nuestras habilidades en 3D.

I am working on a set extension and was wondering how to match the movement when I have different tracking locations (unfortunately there isn’t one point that’s always present). I tried all types of match move operations in fusions tracking node, but the object always jumps or floats a little bit during the tracker switch. I’m sure there must be a way, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Start Date: Immediate

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Tackling the Compositing of shots effectively.
• Briefing junior compositors when dividing of shots into tasks (e.g. rotoscoping) is required.
• Delivering final shots that are creative and technically excellent.
• Attend daily progress reviews to obtain feedback from supervisors.
• Work to improve knowledge of MPC’s Compositing pipeline.
• Work with production to create Compositing schedules and project targets.
• Work with the Compositing HOD to define the Compositing pipeline required for the show and identify any additions or modifications to our existing toolset required to realise this pipeline.
• Supervise compositing of CG elements to match live-action footage to maintain consistent shot quality and look.
• Report on the progress of the lighting work on the show to the Lighting HOD, with particular regard to the following:
• If the team are meeting deadlines
• Technical issues
• Production issues
• R&D requests
• Team morale

Requirements:

• Previous experience with a high-level film based Compositing system using Shake and Nuke.
• Excellent understanding of techniques and technologies related to CG rendering and compositing.
• Excellent understanding of the whole digital film pipeline from scanner to film recorder.
• Proven technical and creative ability in a broadcast or feature-film production environment.
• General understanding of linux/unix-based operating systems.
• Ability to take direction and structure working practices so that design changes can be efficiently made.
• Desire to learn from other and to take on increasingly challenging shots.
• Excellent team building, communication and problem solving skills
• Excellent knowledge of node-based compositing software
• Proven technical and creative ability in a large feature-film VFX production environment

Salary: Competitive remuneration package
Location: London
Application Closing Date: Ongoing recruitment
This is an exciting opportunity to work in the dynamic world of visual effects. If you are interested please apply online to jobs@moving-picture.com