Hasta La Motion!

Intelligent Creatures is currently seeking experienced 3D Generalists for a project starting immediately.

The position requires creative vision to support the projects of Intelligent Creatures as well as hands on production skills.

Produce 3D elements and complete final shots to a very high standard for various applications that may involve some or all of the following disciplines; modeling, texturing, shading, lighting, tracking, animating, scripting, rendering. Will have a thorough knowledge and ability to use the tools that produce Digital Animation; i.e. Maya, Houdini, etc, and be able to take direction from Visual Effects Supervisor, Producer and Team-Lead.

You will have artistic flexibility, versatility, ability to match and/or adapt 3D elements to suit a range of production designs, along with the following:

– Creative problem solving.
– Driven by the desire to do innovative, high quality work.
– Must have good understanding of both technical and creative aspect of projects.
– Firm commitment to meeting deadlines.
– Use and maintain approved file structure and accepted internal workflows.
– Strong design, composition and colour skills.
– Ability to work and finish tasks unsupervised, as well as in a team setting.
– Ability to complete 3D projects according to the expectations and budgets implemented by Intelligent Creatures.
– Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing with a wide range of individuals
– Skill, knowledge and understanding of visual effects, production and implementation.

Please e-mail jobs@intelligentcreatures.com with your resumé, demo reel with breakdowns, and availability with subject line "3D Generalist".

We thank all candidates in advance for applying but only those selected will be contacted for an interview

Preference will be given to Ontario Residents.

NO PHONE CALLS OR DROP-INS PLEASE.

SPIN VFX TORONTO IS RECRUITING FOR A FEATURE FILM

Spin VFX Toronto has openings for:

Digital Nuke Compositor

Spin VFX Toronto is located at:

620 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1M6

Software utilized include:

Nuke

This is a full-time position to commence on or about July 25, 2011.

Compositors are responsible for combining live action, CG and graphic elements into a seamless final shot. Therefore a thorough knowledge of each discipline must be demonstrated.

As a digital compositing artist you must:

· have a minimum of 3 years PHOTO REAL feature film experience
· have a strong sense of colour, colourspace and attention to detail
· be able to do any required tracking (both 2D and 3D)
· possess strong roto and paint abilities
· be experienced using multi-pass CG elements
· be proficient using 2.5d approaches, projections and using the 3D environment within Nuke. This must be demonstrated on your reel.
· work in conjunction with the production team (producer, VFX Supervisor, CG supervisor) to establish schedules and technical requirements
· work in partnership with lighters and other compositors to ensure shots are delivered to the very highest standard

Requirements include,

· successful completion of a Visual Effects diploma from a recognized Institution
· strong artistic skills
· a traditional arts background with emphasis on photo-realistic character work and environments would be an asset

Salary: $55,000.00 – $75,000.00 per annum
plus company paid benefits to include Group Insurance Benefits which include, Medical, Dental, Disability, Life Insurance and Group Insurance Benefits; two weeks vacation and paid sick days

To apply for this position, please submit a cover letter and resume with a link to your online website/portfolio to:

toronto-resume@spinpro.com

Demo reels should include a shot breakdown that indicates exactly what aspects of the shot were your responsibility. If you are submitting by mail, please send info and DVD to:

Spin VFX Toronto
620 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario Canada
M5V 1M6

www.spinpro.com

Preference will be given to Canadian residents.

Due to the number of anticipated responses, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Remuneration will be discussed during the interview process.

No phone calls or drop-ins please

Video & Screencast Editor

As part of our Content Team, you turn content and information into (e)motion!

You …

• …help our community go ‘Ah, NOW I get it!’
• …love & master the art of web video production
• …are an expert in state of the art video production techniques, ranging from simple screen-casting to 3D animation and shooting with HD cameras
• …are an expert in video & audio editing in Adobe Premiere & After Effects
• …know how to create story boards
• …know how to measure the performance of a video, quantitatively and qualitatively

Your tasks:

• Pre and post-production of screencasts, video guides, product demonstrations, training videos, TV commercials and TV-style live-event coverage
• Coordinate the conversion of learning articles into high quality learning videos
• Build & lead a team of freelancers and agencies for video production, cutting, packaging and dubbing
• Support & consult your colleagues in video technology & production

Your team:

Our Gibraltar and Hamburg based superstar team of 280 full-time staff and 500 freelancers creates learning communities – for ourselves and our customers from all over the world.

PokerStrategy.com – our prototype learning community – has more than 5 million members and is fully available in 19 languages. Join our quest to revolutionise the way people learn topics such as poker or Forex trading online!

Please email me at kyle.reynolds@pokerstrategy.com with your CV and showreel

FX TD – Mid Location: London Job Code: 27 # of openings: 10 Description Summary:
FX Technical Directors gather a variety of 3D assets produced by our Layout and Animation departments and use our cutting-edge proprietary toolset to create particle, rigid body, fluid, cloth, fur and hair simulations. Once approved, these are cached to disk. We then either apply lights and shaders using our in-house lighting toolkit to produce the final rendered image, or release the caches back into the pipeline to be lit and rendered by members of our Lighting department.

Primary responsibilities:
• Develops innovative, believable and beautiful solutions to challenging and complex problems.
• Uses an array of commercial and proprietary software tools to produce photorealistic simulations of real-world phenomena.
• Produces test and often final renders of FX elements for a shot.
• Creates working test composites for review by the supervision team.
• Works in partnership with lighters & compositors to ensure shots are delivered to the very highest standard.

Experience and skills:
• Proven experience in feature, commercials or broadcast visual effects production (or plenty of raw talent if you’re a recent graduate), with a showreel to back this up. Experience in live action FX work preferred.
• Thorough understanding of techniques and technologies relating to physical simulation in computer graphics.
• Good understanding of the entire visual effects process: shooting, layout, matchmoving, modelling, texturing, rigging, animation, FX, lighting and compositing.
• A basic understanding of physics: newtonian mechanics is the bread and butter of FX work.
• An eye for visual effects work: the ability to analyse an image and determine what needs to be done to improve it, in terms of both aesthetics and believability. The ability to blend art and science in the pursuit of superlative visual effects.
• The ability to think clearly and creatively under pressure.
• Good proficiency with Autodesk Maya, our primary 3D package.
• Strong scripting skills, in MEL, Python or preferably both. C/C++ programming and shell scripting abilities are also valuable.
• Working knowledge of Pixar’s PRMan renderer preferred, although experience with other renderers may be considered.
• Familiarity with at least one film compositing application (Shake and/or Nuke preferred), and a solid understanding of the compositing process.
• Good computer skills, particularly with the UNIX/Linux command line.

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

Based in Los Angeles, with locations in Vancouver, London and New York, Method is a leading post production facility providing a full range of visual effects services. As an artist driven company Method is built around an exceptional team of VFX professionals who have created award winning visual effects for Feature Film, Commercials and Music Videos.
Recent feature credits for Method include; “Tree of Life”, “Captain America”, “Nightmare on Elm Street”, “Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, “Let Me In”, “Fast Five”, “Life as we Know it” and “Gulliver’s Travel”.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop software to address evolving production demands
• Help maintain existing workflow and asset management tools
• Provide support to artists needing assistance to solve challenging problems
• Develop in-house software as part of a team
• Technical and user documentation
• Build relationships with key artists and production staff
• Ensure that developments are consistent with overall software strategy

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Proven experience developing in a Linux environment
• Knowledge of scripting language required
• Must know Python
• Experience of technologies relating to GUI design and content or asset management an advantage, as is knowledge of RDBMS such as MySQL
• Experience in the design of process management and collaborative workflow software across a distributed environment
• Experience of working in a complex software environment.
• Knowledge of developing with 3D packages (Maya, Houdini) is a requirment
• Previous experience of post-production, VFX and CG is highly desirable

Resumes can be sent to: method-la-recruiting@methodstudios.com