Pre-Vis Artists/Animators

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

Gnomon School – Admissions Assistant

Gnomon School of Visual Effects, a private vocational school specializing in training for careers in high-end computer graphics for the entertainment industries, is seeking an Admissions Assistant.

Duties/ Responsibilities include:
• Work in conjunction and support the Admissions and Marketing departments to coordinate student recruiting events.
• Develop and maintain a database of high school, junior colleges, art schools, State Colleges and Universities. Record names, addresses, purchases, and reactions of prospects contacted.
• Contact schools, businesses or private individuals by telephone in order to solicit sales for Gnomon’s products and services.
• Assist in developing and implementing strategies to identify and recruit outstanding prospects to Gnomon. Ability to track sales progress.
• Assist to raise the visibility of Gnomon’s programs among candidates, parents and college counselors.
• Maintain a high level of confidentiality
• Explain products or services and prices, and answer questions from customers on campus or via phone.
• Conduct client or market surveys in order to obtain information about potential customers.

Qualifications:
• 1-3 years successful sales / customer service experience.
• Exceptional communication, written & verbal. Excellent people skills and enjoys constant interaction with customers.
• Ability to self-manage and problem-solve.
• Extremely self-motivated, professional, and engaging personality.
• Dependable and reliable.
• Be organized and able to multi-task.
• Specific industry or market experience in the computer arts a plus.
• Requires strong computer and internet research skills.
• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends.

Please NO PHONE CALLS. Interested applicants must submit all of the following for consideration: cover letter, resume and salary history to jobs@gnomonschool.com. This position is located in Hollywood, CA. MUST HAVE RELEVANT EXPERIENCE TO BE CONSIDERED.

R&D Animator – XSI

A widely-acclaimed post-production house, based in London, is currently looking for an R&D Animator to help them develop a flocking system for a commercial. You will be working in XSI and must be available immediately.

http://www.smoothdevil.com/index.php?page=job&job_id=823

closes: 8 May 2009

Water EFX Shoot

A post production company in Los Angeles is looking for an established VFX artist that can create a 5 sec EFX shoot of water receding in a reservoir lake. Will need wide shoot of the lake and close up shoots of water lapping on the shores. This will be composited with a 2d lake shoot.
Please have online samples only and attach link to the reel.
Best Judah.

Lead Character Rigging TD

Aardman Animations, Bristol
Position: Lead Character Rigging TD
1 Year contract – immediate start
Salary dependent on experience

Aardman Animations are looking for a talented Character Rigging Technical Director to work at our Bristol studio. This position is initially for a period of 1 year with an immediate start.

The CGI department is involved principally in the production of commercials, and occasionally broadcast and short films. It is also involved in the CG aspects of Aardman’s Features slate.

Aardman is a world leader in character animation. You will be expected to lead the department in all of its character modelling and rigging requirements including the development and support of animation tools.

You should be highly proficient in Maya (including Mel scripting skills) and must have experience in a production environment. Experience in other areas of CG production and of character animation would be a bonus.

You should be highly creative in both technical and artistic problem solving, with a positive and pro-active approach. We’d also expect you to be supportive and team focused , with strong communication skills.
Please apply by sending a written application with comprehensive CV together with a showreel (to include details of your input for each shot) to:

Amanda Ososami
HR Department
Aardman Animations Gas Ferry Road Bristol BS1 6UN

Or e mail jobs@aardman.com. A full job description and person specification is available from www.aardman.com/jobs.

The closing date for these positions is Monday 16 March 2009. No applications will be accepted after that date.

Animation Artist Needed for Short Film

Hi guys,

I’m a short film maker from Melbourne, Australia. I’ll soon be starting with an animated sci-fi short (under 2 minutes duration). I would like to collaborate with a CGI animation artist for this project. The project is non-commercial. It will give any aspiring animator an opportunity to experiment, gain experience, and bring their work to more people.

In terms of style, it can either be 2D or 3D, or maybe involve a bit of both, but more importantly I’m looking at a dark and wet/rainy look. Nothing fancy though.

If you are interesting in discussing this project further, then drop me a private message.

Cheers 🙂

Help for the rotoscoping of “Kaydara”

Hello everyone,

I am Savitri Joly-Gonfard and I am finishing the post-production of "Kaydara" along with Raphaël Hernandez.
Kaydara is a sort of "Film-Thesis" of 50min based on "The Matrix" world. This film can be called an "amateur" one since we did not get any money to produce it.
"Ratrix Hero" composed the first 6min of the film: http://www.ratrixhero.com/
The film is almost done but as I am writting we still have about 300 shots that have to go under the "rotoscoping" process (it is the only thing left since the compositing is done) with the software After Effects.
Being only two working on the film, there is no doubt that there are longs weeks (not to say months) ahead of us to finish this work.

So I am calling for help to anyone who would like to give us a hand. Because if many people help us for the rotoscoping it can be done quite fast!!
A shot last for about 3sec= 75 images.

This work is not very creative and i could only thank you by putting your name in the credits since we do not have any money for this project.

If you are interested , you can reach me at : koumacwars@yahoo.fr

Kind Regards,

Savitri.

Lien making of Kaydara :

[youtube]http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=iCL7DPxMKFQ[/youtube]

Lien ratrix sur youtube :

[youtube]http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=f6pileozqWw[/youtube]

Lien bande annonce Kaydara :

[youtube]http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ht8E8exIM[/youtube]

Site officiel Ratrix hero :
http://www.ratrixhero.com/

VFX Facility in Vancouver looking for 3D Maya Leads

Entity FX North is seeking 3D Maya Leads with a minimum 5 years experience in visual effects for Television and Feature Films.

Requirements include but are not limited to:
* Responsible for leading a team to keep the job on time and on budget, and have the ability to find solutions in order to achieve that goal
* Experience with particle effects and conceptual R&D
* Must be able to create previz / shot design for shots or sequences
* Must have 3D tracking knowledge and experience.
* Minimum 3 years experience in a Maya production environment
* Experience working with artists and having a good working knowledge of 2D and 3D packages
* Must be a team player and perform well under tight deadlines
* Television experience a must

Please send resume and current reel with shot breakdown to:
Recruiting
Entity FX North
#401-1040 Hamilton St.
Vancouver, BC V6B 2R9

Or your resume in the body of the email, or attached in document format, and a link to your demo reel emailed to

resumesnorth@entityfx.com

**No phone calls.

After Effects Motion Tracker

Image Metrics provides superior facial animation solutions to the interactive entertainment, film and television industries. Developed by a team of computer vision Ph.D.s, Image Metrics’ solutions rapidly re-create facial performances without markers or makeup, achieving levels of realism and fidelity that are unparalleled in computer graphics. Image Metrics’ solutions enjoy widespread adoption by some of the best-known production studios in the entertainment world, including Digital Domain, Rockstar Games and Sony Computer Entertainment.

Candidates must have a solid understanding of, and experience using Adobe AfterEffects software. The position needs dedicated and self-motivated people who are looking for an entry level position into the visual effects industry. You must be analytical and detail oriented to perform this important pipeline process.

This role is a full-time position based on a 40 hour working week, but overtime may be offered.

Rate for this position is $16 per hour.

The position requires the candidate to work from our Santa Monica studio.

Please respond to resumes@image-metrics.com with a resume and link to a demo reel. Alternatively you can mail hard copies to: 1918 Main St. Floor 2, Santa Monica CA 90405

3D Artist Needed.

Hello.

We currently seeking artist to help us in a big project for Corona. We need to create several cg animals. An Eagle, a hawk and one parrot. The look need to be photorealistic.

We are a small studio in mexico. Our reel can be found here:
http://www.thefilterfx.com

For more information you can contact me at the following email:
ivan@thefilterfx.com.