Mar 31

Filmgate looking for Matte Painter

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Filmgate are seeking a talented full time Matte Painter to work closely within the visual effects team in Göteborg, Sweden, to create a wide variety of digital environments for upcoming feature film projects. Our film pipeline is heavily based around The Foundry’s Nuke and Autodesk’s Maya. You will also be working with 3D projections in these packages. Any additional experience within the 3D department is a huge plus. A minimum of a 2 year experience in a similar environment is required for this position.

Send showreel, CV and any questions to jobs@filmgate.se or by post to:
Filmgate
Järntorget 3
SE-413 04 Göteborg
SWEDEN

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Mar 31

3d Artists

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An international Branding & Design consultancy based near Amsterdam is currently looking for talented 3d Artists to join its graphics/visualization team.

These positions require talented and motivated persons who are capable of producing high quality renderings for a given deadline.

http://www.smoothdevil.com/index.php?page=job&job_id=771

closes: 25 May 2009

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Mar 30

Naughty Dog (www.naughtydog.com) is Hiring!! Technical Environment Artist Wanted for

Posted in: The Job Lot
Naughty Dog
Santa Monica, CA
www.naughtydog.com

Naughty Dog is the developer of critically acclaimed and top-selling titles including the Crash Bandicoot franchise, Jak and Daxter franchise and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. We’re a relatively small team with a highly decentralized and collaborative work environment – we value feedback about any aspect of our game development from any of our team members. We’re a tightly knit group and you can frequently find us participating in yoga sessions in the office, spending lunch playing out on the court basketball, foosball in our lunchroom or around town in our frequent group evenings out. Since Naughty Dog is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment America, we also get a lot of the perks that comes from being in the Sony family – movie screenings on the Sony Pictures lots and discounts on electronics, music, movies and PlayStation hardware and software. Of course, you just can’t beat our location. Naughty Dog is based near the ocean – and beaches – in Santa Monica, California, where beautiful weather and fair temperatures grace us year-round.

Press for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PSX3)
http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3172597
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/950/950589p1.html
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/uncharted2amongthieves/news.html?sid=6204070&om_act=convert&om_clk=picks& tag=picks;title;2

Technical Environment Artist
Responsibilities

  • Work with the environment art team to deliver high quality assets, environment detailing and support environment pipeline efficiency.
  • Responsible for the creation and implementation of high quality environment assets to the project’s specifications.
  • Take responsibility for producing own work to a high standard and to any agreed schedules.
  • Be able to provide technical support and guidance to other environment team members when required.
  • Present ideas and artwork in such a way as to communicate ideas clearly, explaining artistic and technical issues.


Requirements & Skills

  • Exceptional modeling and texture skills at a high level of quality both at high and low resolutions for games.
  • Experience working with multi-pass shader effects (diffuse maps, specular maps, bump maps, normal maps, etc).
  • Excellent knowledge of 3D modeling software – Maya or equivalent.
  • Excellent knowledge of 2D software – Photoshop or equivalent.
  • A strong knowledge and ability to work to specific budgetary requirements and develop ways to achieve the best results within those limits.
  • Mel Script knowledge.
  • 3+ years experience in modeling and texturing environments using Maya and Photoshop (or equivalent 3D and 2D programs).
  • Must have good people skills and have the ability to excel in a creative and positive manner with the rest of the team.
  • Excellent organizational skills and the ability to self manage and meet deadlines.
  • Solid traditional art skills are a benefit

Please include a demo reel or examples of professional work (Online Preferred), a breakdown of your contributions to the shot, and an accompanying resume.

Contact:
candace_walker@naughtydog.com
Candace Walker
Recruiter @ Naughty Dog

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Mar 27

Lighters

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C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures located in downtown Toronto is currently looking for experienced Lighters to work on a live action visual effects feature film.

The company was founded in 1994 and is one of Canada‘s leading digital visual effects and animation studios. Over a decade later, C.O.R.E. has successfully built three divisions: C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, C.O.R.E. Toons and C.O.R.E. Feature Animation. Over the years, with the underlying philosophy that a studio designed by artists for artists fosters the best creative environment, C.O.R.E. has produced award-winning work for more than 55 Feature Films, 24 Television Series and 24 Movies of the Week.

C.O.R.E. offers an exciting work environment; our open work structure allows for creativity and fun at the same time. The continuous flow of interesting new projects that are awarded from major studios and production companies makes working at C.O.R.E. a unique and fulfilling experience.

Qualifications and Skills:
·Excellent ability to work in Houdini
·Strong knowledge of industry standard lighting techniques and terminology
·Ability to work in a node based compositing package such as Shake
·Excellent ability to setup and render complex shots
·Ability to work with directory structures, databases, specific naming conventions and file management
·Knowledge of Hscript, Mel, Python, or other scripting languages/protocols
·Excellent knowledge of Mantra
·Post grad diploma in animation preferred
·Training/knowledge in 3D animation
·2-5 years of professional experience
·Must be legally authorized to work in Canada

Job Duties and Responsibilities:
·Create required quotas of finished shots per week
·Required to check in with Directors, review notes and instruction regularly
·Post completed work internally and communicate progress to managers
·Setup lighting rigs for sets and characters under tight deadlines
·Assist Lighting TD”s when needed
·Additional duties as required

Qualified applicants can send their resumes, demo reels in DVD-R format including shot breakdown to:

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures Recruiting
461 King St. West
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1K7

We would like to thank all applicants for their interest however only those under consideration will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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Mar 27

Modeling & Texture Artists

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C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures located in downtown Toronto has immediate openings for experienced Modeling/Texturing Artists to work on a live action visual effects feature film.

The company was founded in 1994 and is one of Canada‘s leading digital visual effects and animation studios. Over a decade later, C.O.R.E. has successfully built three divisions: C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, C.O.R.E. Toons and C.O.R.E. Feature Animation. Over the years, with the underlying philosophy that a studio designed by artists for artists fosters the best creative environment, C.O.R.E. has produced award-winning work for more than 55 Feature Films, 24 Television Series and 24 Movies of the Week.

C.O.R.E. offers an exciting work environment; our open work structure allows for creativity and fun at the same time. The continuous flow of interesting new projects that are awarded from major studios and production companies makes working at C.O.R.E. a unique and fulfilling experience.

Qualifications and Skills:
·Excellent working knowledge of Houdini
·Ability to work with common operating systems like Windows and PC based workstations
·Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix a plus.
·Excellent understanding of efficient modeling and texturing processes
· Ability to understand/interpret the creative requirements in order to create an accurate representation within a defined timeline
·Accredited Post secondary school compositing course or equivalent
·3-5 years of experience
·Must be legally authorized to work in Canada

Job Duties:
·Work with other modelers, texture artists, technical directors, riggers, matte painters, lighters and other cg artists to create photo real assets and all dependencies within a defined production pipeline
·Building geometry, uv unwrapping, painting photo real textures, groom fur/feathers, and define surfaces
·Ability to work with cyber scanned or library models as well as creating geometry from scratch is required
·Responsible for performing research relating to manufacturing process to achieve highest level of realism
·Must be able to illustrate examples of fur grooming work
·Take creative direction from Leads/VFX Supervisor
·Additional duties as required

Qualified applicants can send their resumes, demo reels in DVD-R format including shot breakdown to:
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures Recruiting
461 King St. West
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1K7

We would like to thank all applicants for their interest however only those under consideration will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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Mar 27

Character Animators

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C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures located in downtown Toronto is currently looking for experienced Character Animators to work on a live action visual effects feature film.

The company was founded in 1994 and is one of Canada‘s leading digital visual effects and animation studios. Over a decade later, C.O.R.E. has successfully built three divisions: C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, C.O.R.E. Toons and C.O.R.E. Feature Animation. Over the years, with the underlying philosophy that a studio designed by artists for artists fosters the best creative environment, C.O.R.E. has produced award-winning work for more than 55 Feature Films, 24 Television Series and 24 Movies of the Week.

C.O.R.E. offers an exciting work environment; our open work structure allows for creativity and fun at the same time. The continuous flow of interesting new projects that are awarded from major studios and production companies makes working at C.O.R.E. a unique and fulfilling experience.

Qualifications and Skills:
·Excellent knowledge of animating in Houdini
·May be required to create dynamic simulations
·Excellent sense of timing and composition
·Must be able to create realistic believable movement
·Ability to assess shot requirements, flag potential problems, and facilitate solutions
·University/College degree in animation or fine arts
·3-5 years of experience
·Must be legally authorized to work in Canada

Job Duties:
·Create physically believable animation to be passed on to lighting and rendering
·Work with other animators, technical directors, modelers, riggers and cg artists
·Make timely corrections to work when required
·Take creative direction from leads and/or VFX Supervisor
·Additional duties as required

Qualified applicants can send their resumes, demo reels in DVD-R format including shot breakdown to:

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures Recruiting
461 King St. West
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1K7

We would like to thank all applicants for their interest however only those under consideration will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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Mar 27

Texture Artist

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A London based studio are looking for a Texture Artist to create realistic fabrics and surfaces finishes for 3D characters animated in Maya. It would be an advantage to have additional skills in lighting and rendering.

http://www.smoothdevil.com/index.php?page=job&job_id=862

closes: 24 May 2009

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Mar 26

DreamWorks Animation is Hiring FX and Hair/Cloth Artists and Riggers!

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DreamWorks Animation is looking for Senior FX Artists and Developers, Hair/Cloth Artists and Developers and Riggers. We have openings at our Glendale, CA and Redwood City, CA location.

To apply, please send your reel, resume and reel breakdown to the address below.

DreamWorks Animation
Recruiting Department
1000 Flower Street
Glendale, CA 91208
Attn: (name of the position to which you are applying)

Please visit us at: www.dreamworksanimation.com

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Mar 25

Editor/Compositor

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SPIN VFX TORONTO IS RECRUITING FOR MAJOR STUDIO FEATURE FILM

SPIN VFX TORONTO is accepting applications for:

– Pre-Vis Artists/Animators
– Modeler/Texture artists
– Editor/Compositor

Software: Maya, Final Cut Pro

Qualified applicants should have a minimum of 2 years PHOTO REAL CG feature film experience.

These are contract positions that could lead to full time for the right individual. Contract is for 2-3 months, commening early April.

To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume with a link to your online website/portfolio to toronto-resume@spinpro.com.

Hardcopy reel submissions to:

SPIN VFX TORONTO
ATTN: RECRUITMENT DEPT.
620 KING ST. WEST
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
M5V 1M6

www.spinpro.com

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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Mar 25

Modeler/Texture artists

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SPIN VFX TORONTO IS RECRUITING FOR MAJOR STUDIO FEATURE FILM

SPIN VFX TORONTO is accepting applications for:

– Pre-Vis Artists/Animators
– Modeler/Texture artists
– Editor/Compositor

Software: Maya, Final Cut Pro

Qualified applicants should have a minimum of 2 years PHOTO REAL CG feature film experience.

These are contract positions that could lead to full time for the right individual. Contract is for 2-3 months, commening early April.

To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume with a link to your online website/portfolio to toronto-resume@spinpro.com.

Hardcopy reel submissions to:

SPIN VFX TORONTO
ATTN: RECRUITMENT DEPT.
620 KING ST. WEST
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
M5V 1M6

www.spinpro.com

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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