Hasta La Motion!

Flame Artist

Sauce is a well established Wellington based production and post production company. We run a tight team of designers, editors, producers and directors and offer services across the board for film and television. Our offices in Thorndon Quay are situated only minutes from Wellington’s thriving commercial centre. We offer a friendly and creative team environment with great conditions and an atmosphere of support and collaboration.

The successful applicant will already be living in Australia or New Zealand or be able to present themselves at our head offices in Wellington for an interview.

We are currently seeking an intermediate Flame artist to join us here at Sauce. The ideal candidate will have the following skills:

• Great personal manner with strengths in putting clients at ease and being able to interpret their needs quickly and effectively.
• A minimum of 3 years experience in an online Flame role.
• A strong knowledge of rotoscoping, compositing, grading and finishing.
• A strong design sense including typography, colour and an understanding of professional design trends.
• Ability to work both solo and as part of the design team.
• Able to assess workflow requirements and accurately predict timelines and necessary resources to achieve desired outcomes.
• Ability to lead other Autodesk artists in team projects.

Other skills of value are:

• Lustre grading experience.
• Smoke Experience
• DI Understanding.
• Familiarity with Adobe™ Photoshop, After Effects, illustrator and similar software.
• A strong motion graphics/design background.
• Knowledge of Film compositing and VFX design and creation.

Our ideal candidate will want to be part of our growing team, be able to lead when necessary as well as being able to follow a tight brief when called for. You will be happy to share your knowledge with our design team and want to contribute your ideas in an open forum.

Sauce offers a comfortable working environment, an energetic group of colleagues and a competitive industry rate commensurate with experience.

You will have a CV showing your previous professional roles and a list of referees from those roles that we can contact. The successful applicant will be a currently living in Wellington or are prepared to relocate. You should already be able to work in New Zealand with proof that you are holding all valid visas and work permits prior to apply for this position or your application will not be considered.

All applications in the first instance by email to Marten Coombe, VFX Producer via email jobs@sauce.co.nz.

Role based in Guildford
Paying circa. £170 per day
6 Month Contract
Job Description:
Experienced camera operator for animating cameras for game content. Candidates must have experience of gameplay cameras and in game cinematics, and ideally TV/film, and be accustomed to working with a director in a high-pressured production environment.
The role involves both creation of camera animation from scratch and working with camera motion data captured on motion capture shoots. An understanding of film language and camera terminology, framing and camera moves is essential.

Responsibilities:
· Animating cameras in Motion Builder:
o From pre-visualisation (layouts) and block out to final cameras
o Editing captured camera motion data from mo-cap shoots
o Maintaining exported camera data for animation team and game designers/scripters
· Generate camera ideas and contribute to creative direction
· Manage camera updates and consistency between Motion Builder and Softimage
· Editing preview material

Requirements:
· Experience of animating cameras in a games, and film or TV environment
· Comprehensive understanding of camera terminology, grammar and aesthetic:
o Film language
o Camera positioning
o Understand whose story is being told, visually, at any one time
o Excellent eye for composition
· Experience of working with director, ability to work independently and with a team of content creators
· Editing experience
· Fast, efficient and flexible
· Good communication, team player
· Creative and passionate about cutting edge AAA games

Specific Skills:
· Motion Builder and other major animation package – Softimage, Maya, 3dsMax
· Editing software – Final Cut Pro, Premiere etc.

Additional Information:
· Experience of/familiarity with physical camera rigs and terminology
· Knowledge of Motion Builder ideal, but training can be given

EXPERIENCED NUKE COMPOSITORS

• Minimum 3 years live action and cg visual effects compositing experience
• Should possess a keen eye for color and color matching
• Should have strong aptitude for technical workflow challenges such as directory structure, file formats, naming conventions, scripts, automation tools, automated dailies, etc.
• Should have strong knowledge of compositing workflow and the compositing application interface
• Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to multitask
• Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines
• Australian or New Zealand citizenship/permanent residency

Hi,

We are currently in need for a few digital matte painters to create some photorealistic war torn environments set at night (similar to Green Zone and Black Hawk Down). You will be provided a base render to paint on top and work from and tons of texture references and material.

Ability to break up the matte painting so that it can be passed over to compositor to use in 3D compositing (nuke) to create camera projections on objects and parallax is important.

This is a paid gig, although not as high as usual studios rate.

Please email reels etc to: haz.director@googlemail.com

Thanks,

HaZ

3D FX Artist
Position Overview
We are looking for an exceptionally skilled and motivated team-player with a proven track record (or serious raw talent). The right candidate should be able to demonstrate excellent creative, technical and visual skill. They will be an accomplished Artist with a passion for visual effects with the ability to produce high quality, efficient, game content including full screen and post process effects, spot effects, particle systems and atmospherics.

As well as the ‘industry standard’ software, they will be working with and help develop proprietary tools in both 2d and 3d environments.

Required:
Visual flare and talent
Experience with FX design and creation
Expert knowledge of Max
Expert knowledge of Photoshop & After Effects
Knowledge of working with physics middleware
Self motivated, good communicator, good attitude, team-player
Love of visual FX

Ideal:
Proven experience implementing game visual effects
Formal art training
All round Art ability
Love of games

robert.clarkin@amiqus.com