Luma Pictures – Jr Lighter

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– Jr Lighting artist

Luma Pictures is looking for Lighters

LUMA PICTURES is an artist-run feature film VFX studio located a few blocks from the beach off of Abbot Kinney in Venice, California. We maintain a unique culture with an amazingly talented staff that consistently cranks out top notch work. We are currently searching for stellar Jr Lighters to fill a few choice spots on an upcoming, high profile productions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
– Lighting look development for integration of CG elements into Live Action
– Lighting look development for full CG shots
– Creation of tools and scripts to facilitate workflow
– Develop methodologies for reduction of render time and improving quality of results

QUALIFICATIONS:
– Artist must know Maya and MentalRay extremely well
– Understanding multi pass 3D compositing required
– Knowledge of Renderman or Air a plus
– Artists must be able to take direction and work in a team focused environment, good communication skills are a must
– Strong time management skills and extremely organized.
– Solid work ethic and a positive attitude in the face of challenging situations.
– Los Angeles Residents or willingness to relocate preferred • Relocation assistance may be available subject to negotiation

SUBMISSIONS: If you think you fit the bill and want a quick response, email your resume, a link to your online reel/portfolio and a shot breakdown to jobs10@luma-pictures.com. Please make the email subject "ATTN: Recruiting – Lighters". Do not attach images or movie files to your email because they will get filtered out. If you prefer to send hard copies, you can submit them to:

Attention: Recruiting – Lighters
Luma Pictures
248 Westminster Ave
Venice, CA 90291

Submitted materials will not be returned and no phone calls please.
www.luma-pictures.com
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CIS Hollywood seeks System Administrator/Production Support

CIS Hollywood seeks System Administrator/Production Support team member for current and upcoming projects.

Summary:
Primary responsibilities to include basic system administration, workstation, server and render farm configuration work, etc.

Secondary responsibilities include working with the pipeline team to develop production tools and supporting modules in a Python and C++ language environment.

Responsibilities:
Maintain IT infrastructure.
Supporting production with tools, scripting, software installation and maintenance.

Requirements:
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Expert knowledge of Linux.
Admin experience with MacOSX and Windows.
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2+ years experience in post-production.

Strong programming/ scripting experience with bash/tcsh, Python, Perl, C/C++.
Knowledge of SQL databases.
Web support experience with PHP, Java, HTML, Apache, SSL.
Excellent communication, documentation and problem-solving skills

Desired Skills:
Knowledge of 2D and 3D CG apps.
Pipeline integration/programming experience with Maya, Houdini and Nuke(Mel, Pymel, hscript, hou.py etc.) Shotgun/Tank configuration experience

This position is for the Hollywood facility.
There is no relocation budget attached to this position

Submission Requirements:
Please send cover letter, resume portfolios and/or demo reel (DVD or web link only) with shot breakdown list to:

CIS Hollywood
Attn: Recruiting
1144 N. Las Palmas Ave.
Hollywood, CA. 90038
OR
Email, web links and resume to: resumes@cishollywood.com
Please include position for which you are applying in the subject line and resume in the body of the email.

No attachments will be opened.
Candidates are reviewed weekly and resumes are kept on file for at least one year as a resource to fill future job openings.

Our staff is very busy on productions, so please do not stop by or call unless we have contacted you for an interview.

CIS Visual Effects Group is an award winning international visual effects entity with facilities in Hollywood and Vancouver. The CIS Visual Effects Group is a wholly-owned affiliate of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. For more information please visit:

www.cisvfxgroup.com

Nuke roto trackin question

Hi

Nuke noob question
Ive been trying to follow along with a tut from this site, and I keep runnin into an issue. The tut says to create a track, and then attach it to a garbage mask, but every time I do this, it moves the garbage mask off.

See attached. The tut doesn’t really explain this well, or at least it didn’t happen for him. Im using 6.1…with the root tool. Hes using 5.2, with the bezier tool. Is that my problem?

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Blue Source & A52 for LEGO: The Brick Thief

Following up their last successful short film for LEGO, Blue Source returns to A52 and RPS to collaborate on yet another whimsical, stop-motion, mixed-media tale.

Agency: Pereira & O’Dell
PJ Pereira – Chief Creative Officer
Kash Sree – Executive Creative Director
Jason Apaliski – ACD/Art Director
Jaime Robinson – ACD/Writer
Sara Krider – Producer
Jeff Ferro – Director of Production
Gary Theut – Director of Client Services
Skylar Fogel – Account Executive

Production company: MJZ
Blue Source – Director
Betsy Oliver – Line Producer
Eric Stern – Executive producer
David Zander – Excutive Producer
Eduardo Martinez – Director of Photography
Veronica Falcon – Choreographer
Nicolas Scabini – Art Director

Editorial: Rock Paper Scissors
Damion Clayton – Editor
Carol Lynn Weaver – Executive Producer
Aaron Morris – Assistant Editors
Justin Kumpata – Producer

VFX: a52
Andy Hall/ Andy McKenna – VFX Supervisors
Chris Janney – CG Lead
Erin Clark, Joe Chiechi, Abel Salazar, Steven Baker, John Cherniack, Kirk Shintani,
Adam Newman – CG Artists
Andy McKenna, Brendan Crockett, Andy Barrios – 2D VFX Artists
Pete King – Producer
Jennifer Sofio Hall – Executive Producer

Music: Stimmung
David Winer – Composer
Ceinwyn Clark – Executive Producer
Sound Design:
Damion Clayton – Sound Designer
David Winer – Sound Designer
Peter Rincon – Sound Designer

Mix: POP Sound
Peter Rincon- Sound Mixer
Susie Boyajan – Excutive Producer

Posted on Motionographer

Senior Generalist

counterfeit | fx
Is a recently formed visual effects house. We provide the international market with high end, theatre-ready visual fx services.
For our first projects we brought together talents with past experiences at ILM,Framestore, MPC and others.
We are looking for freelancers and staffers to expand our core team to create breathtaking images that will lead the audience to believe the unbelievable. We are based in Milan, Italy.

Senior Generalist:
Position Summary:

Will be responsible for look developing cg assets and lighting for high end commercials.

Under the direction of a visual fx supervisor he/she will be able to meet the production needs, with a positive attitude and creative flair.

Will work in an artist oriented and friendly environment.

The ideal candidate will be a good all-rounder, with excellent skills in:
Texturing/Lighting/Shading

Must show an exceptional artistic eye, and have good technical skills.

Problem solving and strong communication skills are key.

Being able to realistically assess time needed for a given task a very big plus.

Must be a team player and enjoy mentoring junior level talent.

Must be able to work well under pressure and open to work flexible hours.

Requirements:

  • 3+ years vfx production.
  • Develop technical and aesthetic approaches to define the visual design of each shot.
  • Strong knowledge of Maya and Mental Ray render.
  • Ability to write custom Mental Ray shaders a very big plus.
  • Solid knowledge of at least one composting application (Nuke preferrable).
  • Good Linux Skills.
  • TCL,Perl,Python scripting experience preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Design, Computer Graphic Arts, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred

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If You or someone you know is interested in this position please submit a resume/cv and website/downloadable showreel to enrico@counterfeitfx.com
quoting: Sr. Digital Artist , or send your showreel on DVD to:
Counterfeit | fx Attn. Recruiting, Via Cadolini 32 20137 Milano, Italy

How to remain calm, despite notebook..

A glorious parade of laptop destroying fun, driven by some helpful hints about using Chrome notebooks

Spot: Auto Designer’s Mind

Blind and jelly Enter an Auto Designer\’s Mind for Audi and BBH and create this beautiful and creative spot. Must Watch for all…

Compositors and matte painters

Hi we are a group of two we need someone who can composite and matte paint.This is just a group project which we are making on our own interest to learn the pipeline and also to make a good showreel.We are students and we are doing an effect shot in houdini and maya.simulations are almost ready.
please drop a mail at vvvvfx@gmail.com if you are interested in our endeavour.Thanks

PS
we would acknowledge your works and you can also use if for your demo reel

BitTorrent’s Wave Becomes a Tsunami with 100 Million Active Users

Dependent entirely on how you feel about piracy, it will either tickle you previously undefined shades of pink or break your heart to learn that BitTorrent has reported that its tools BitTorrent, Mainline and µTorrent now have an active userbase of 100 million per month.

It seems like only yesterday we were forced a peek at Bram Cohen’s attractive* face as he panhandled for donations every time we closed the original BT client. Flash forward and 20 million are logging on per day from 220 nations to share files. Legally, of course.

What makes these figures ever-more impressive is that they don’t include the users of the nigh-countless unofficial clients, of which many of you likely are.

It’s a wonder BitTorrent is comfortable even revealing these numbers (especially considering the aforementioned hundreds of millions more users), considering the service’s reputation as the essential piracy tool. BitTorrent does have initiatives to promote the legal sharing of files (via its Artist Spotlight Program and such), but let’s be honest… what’s in your BT queue right now?

http://www.techi.com/2011/01/bittorr…-active-users/

Diego Maclean: The Art of Drowning

Some incredible drawing and animation from Vancouver based, Brazilian illustrator/animator Diego Maclean: The Art of Drowning