Hasta La Motion!

MPC is one of the world’s leading post production facilities creating high-end digital visual effects for the television and feature film industries. Developing new visual effects techniques and creating cutting edge productivity tools is vital to MPC’s continued success. This is the responsibility of the Software team, where MPC seeks to appoint a Production Assistant to help support the team’s day to day activities.

If you like the idea of working with a group of highly motivated technology specialists, helping to run a very busy department, we’re looking for a quick learner who is super organised, pro-active and keen. The ideal applicant has excellent communication skills, good attention to detail and loads of common sense.

Responsibilities to include:

·Coordination of meetings and diary management
·Meeting minutes and followup on action points
·Liaison with other departments and production teams
·Keeping holiday/absence records and coordinating cover when members of the team are away
·Managing the timesheeting process for the team
·Coordinating seating, introductions and training for new starters
·Managing a schedule of presentations and training sessions
·Managing and updating the team’s intranet pages
·Coordination of delegates and presentations for industry conferences
·General administration eg: stationery orders, reporting maintenance issues
·General team communications and social events, usually involving cake

Applicants will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

·Strong organisation and communication skills
·Good Microsoft Office skills

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the dynamic world of visual effects. If you are interested please apply online.

http://www.moving-picture.com/index….rticle&id=1060

from the Animation Guild. Good reading for newbies and pros alike to find out what you should be making. This only aplies to union houses which are basically just the big animation houses but I doubt the overall wages are very different at other shops.

• Light and render CG elements to match live action footage using MPC’s standardized toolset.
• Manage render scene’s, elements and assets.
• Composite rendered CG elements and live action for daily progress reviews.
• Technically and creatively maintain consistent shot quality and look for sequences as specified by lighting supervisor and CG supervisor.
• Develop shots in collaboration with shot compositor.
• Deliver renders according to agreed deadlines and schedules and specifications.
• Support lighting lead with technical and creative supervision.
• Support lighting and rendering pipeline for shots and sequences.
• Look development of rendered CG objects across shots and sequences.
• Monitor daily progress together with lead lighting TD and supervisors.
• Maintain daily routines, review processes and development cycles.
• Work with production to create schedules and project targets.
• Reports to lead lighter & supervisors.

Experience and Skills:

• Thorough understanding of techniques and technologies related to CG rendering and compositing.
• Good team leading ability’s
• Good communication skills.
• Proven experience in leading / managing a team of artists.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Shading and lighting & rendering terminology.
• Very good understanding of production pipelines.
• Very good knowledge of a renderer such as Mental Ray or Renderman.
• Very good knowledge of a compositing software.
• Proven production experience in a large feature film production environment.
• Thorough understanding of computer graphics and the visual effects process.
• General understanding of linux / unix based operating systems
• Some understanding of programming / software development.
• TCL, MEL, Perl and Python, programming also an advantage.
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.

http://www.moving-picture.com/index….rticle&id=1060

I see that art uses RYB color model and displays RGB..

According to RYB color model complementary color of Red would be green..But according to RGB it is Cyan..How does the theory work here..
Or do we just follow RYB everywhere for visual harmony…