Hasta La Motion!

A VFX house (small boutique type) in Santa Monica is looking for a CG Generalist for our ongoing projects.

Ideal candidate mush be able to do modeling, texture-mapping, rigging, animation.
Applicants mush be highly proficient using 3DCG software such as 3dsMax, Maya.

Location – Santa Monica
Position – CG artist
Status – On-site, full time, freelance
Estimated Duration – Early 2011 to mid 2012

Please send resume and a link to your work samples to info@nicedayinc.com
Please reply with your rate.

Nice Day, Inc.

Position Summary:

MPC Vancouver is looking to recruit an experienced VFX Producer to work on an exciting feature film project due to begin in the coming months.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Producer role carries significant responsibilities both internal and external to the facility. From the bidding process through to driving a production schedule and managing a budget, being effective in this role is crucial to a well organised project
• Forming a partnership with the VFX Supervisor to carefully manage both the client relationship and internal team priorities while always ensuring the best standard of work is being produced at all times
• Representing MPC as the key client liaison on the project, handling this responsibility and relationship with diplomacy and professionalism
• Working closely with the Production Manager to create and drive a schedule of deliverables and accurate resource requirements over the project duration
• Managing show budget and finances

Requirements:

• The ideal candidate will have proven experience as a Producer on feature film projects in an established VFX facility
• Proven ability to manage and cater for client expectations is essential
• Business acumen and an ability to balance financial responsibilities and negotiations in what is at times a very demanding environment
• Thorough understanding of CG production pipelines and post production in general is essential
• Outstanding organisational skills and attention to detail coupled with exceptional people skills and the ability to work within a team environment
• Strong skills in communication – both written and verbal
• Good understanding of Filemaker Pro and Excel

Details:

• Start Date: Immediate to early 2011
• Duration: Project based
• Location: Vancouver, Canada

If this role sounds of interest the pleae get in touch, sending a copy of your resume to: vancouver-jobs@moving-picture.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

Position Summary:

MPC Vancouver is looking for an experienced Rigging TD to join the team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Uses an array of commercial and proprietary tools to create character rigs
• Design control mechanism’s that are simple and intuitive
• Work in conjunction with the modelling department and animation department to create photorealistic characters
• Integration of characters and rigs into the production pipeline
• Create User Interfaces and tools that assist animators
• Works in partnership with R&D programmers, Animators, Lighting TD’s to ensure shots are delivered to the very highest standard
• Provide support to character rigs throughout production
• Write scripts that automate character production

Requirements:

• Thorough understanding of techniques and technologies relating to character rigging and animation
• Understanding of puppet and control philosophy
• Excellent understanding of anatomy, volumes and masses, dynamics and character motion
• 3+ years proven experience in feature film/broadcast visual effects production
• Good understanding of the entire visual effects process, from shooting to modelling to texturing, animation and rendering
• Good computer skills, particularly with UNIX/Linux command line interface
• MEL programming essential
• Maya API C++ programming also a plus

Details:

• Start Date: Immediate to early 2011
• Duration: Contract
• Location: Vancouver, Canada

If this role sounds of interest then please get in touch, sending a copy of your reel and resume to: vancouver-jobs@moving-picture.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

Position Summary:

MPC Vancouver is looking for Senior Lighting/Look Dev artists to join our team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Using an array of commercial and proprietary lighting tools to match CG lighting to on-set lighting
• Producing test and final renders of all CG elements
• Creating working comps for review by the supervision team
• Assisting and developing the look of a shot or sequence with the supervision team
• Helping establish suitable work techniques for other team members
• Working with the producer and co-ordinator, lighting supervisor and CG Supervisor to establish schedules and technical requirements
• Working in partnership with compositors to ensure shots are delivered to the very highest standard

Requirements:

• Proven production lighting experience
• Thorough understanding of techniques and technologies related to CG rendering and compositing
• Excellent communication skills
• Proven technical and creative ability in a large feature-film VFX production environment
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Very good understanding of shading, lighting and rendering terminology
• Very good understanding of production pipelines
• Very good knowledge of a production renderer
• Very good knowledge of node-based compositing software
• General understanding of linux/unix-based operating systems
• Python and MEL scripting experience an advantage

Details:

• Start Date: Immediate to early 2011
• Duration: Various
• Location: Vancouver, Canada

If this role sounds of interest then please get in touch, sending a copy of your reel and resume to: vancouver-jobs@moving-picture.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

Hi
hope this question isn’t too stupid. I’ve been following this tutorial (http://magazine.creativecow.net/arti…-effects-users) about nuke and tried to add a mask to my scanline render (trying to add a mask to my 3d object flying around a corner for 3 days now. here is his setup)

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance