Hasta La Motion!

PIXOMONDO is an international visual effects company with a global network of 9 facilities in the US, China, Germany, UK and Canada. We are recruiting for key positions in our Burbank office, where we would like to welcome anyone with the right experience to work in a fresh and international environment.

Matchmove requirements:
• Minimum 2 years experience as a matchmove artist, preferably on feature film or television projects.
• Solid knowledge of Boujou and/or SynthEyes…and stereoscopic production experience is a big plus!
• A reel showing a strong artistic sensibility, and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and desire to deliver consistently high quality work, and encourage those around you to the same standards.

Matte Painter Requirements:
• Ability to create photo-real environments and landscapes exhibiting a strong foundation in photo-realistic traditional and digital art skills with an emphasis on landscapes. Performs tasks related to integrating added imagery into a shots, preserving a unified sense of lighting, perspective, and color. Also responsible for creating original 2D and 3D content that may comprise part or all of an environment.
• Combines painting skills in animation software, with a knowledge of photography, practical and digital modeling, and design, to create 2D and 3D paintings for digital environments.
• Works closely with the Supervisor to ensure that plates meet planned concept design requirements.
• Must have strong artistic background, and a sharp eye for detail

Compositing Supervisor Nuke Requirements:
• Feature Film demo reel that shows strong artistic skills including a strong sense of color, lighting, perspective, scale, and composition.
• Stereoscopic experience.
• Traditional art portfolio demonstrating traditional art skills is a plus.
• Expert knowledge of Nuke is required.
• Experience with 3D Studio Max is a plus.
• Scripting or programming experience is a plus.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrate the ability to prioritize and manage time well.
• Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in dealing directly with clients.
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Ability to work within a strong team environment
• Creative problem solving skills
To Apply for these Positions:
Must be eligible to work in the US. Relocation costs not covered for these positions.
Include a link to your demo reel, breakdown, current resume and your rate.
Make sure your resume also includes your name, address, phone and email.

Other positions available on our website. http://www.pixomondo.com/web/hiring/index.htm

TELETOON studios – is looking for an animator or compositor who is willing to do freelance rotoscope work.

The job requires lifting character animations from various children animated shows. The length of each sequence varies from :02s to :10s long. Turn around of each sequence is quick – 72hrs from receiving the hi-res files.

We will deliver hi-res animation QT file – you can work from home! We will require both an animation QT file with alpha and a .png sequence as final delivery

We will compensate based on either an hourly rate or by sequence. Work can start immediately.

Please send resume and/or reel to:
Rubina Cokar
rubinac@teletoonstudios.com
Subject line: Roto Freelance Work

Thanks!

VISUAL EFFECTS IN NEW ORLEANS IN TIME FOR MARDI GRAS
Multiple Positions.

If you have to be away from home, this is the place to be!

Factory VFX, located in the heart of New Orleans is now accepting resumes for the following positions:

3D-Stereo Compositors
Primary responsibilities and skill-sets:

• Perform all tasks associated with the compositing process: incorporating roto, matte extraction, layering of elements, color correction, 2D and 3D tracking.
• Integrate cg elements and matte paintings into live action or CG Animated plates.
• Take creative direction from leads and/or stereographer.
• Present work clearly in dailies and respond to supervisors in a timely fashion.
• Work with other 3D Artists to convert 2D media into high quality Stereoscopic 3D in a timely manner.

• Must have thorough knowledge and ability to use After Effects or node based compositing system, as well as Photoshop.
• Familiar with Rotoscoping, particularly Silhouette and Mocha Pro.
• Excellent understanding of stereography.
• Ability to understand and interpret the creative requirements in order to create an accurate representation of stereoscopy.
• Ability to take direction and structure working practice so that design changes can be efficiently made.
• Desire to learn from others and to take on increasingly challenging shots.
• Must have excellent communication skills.
• Must be able to accurately view 3D images.
• 2-4+ years of previous experience in VFX compositing, 6+ months of stereo conversion experience.

Compositors
Primary responsibilities and skill-sets:

• Able to composite shots effectively.
• Good understanding of color, photography, film, and light.
• Experience with digital film pipelines.
• Ability to take direction and implement needed design changes.
• Desire to learn from and teach others to expand skill-sets.
• Previous rotoscoping/painting experience a plus.
• Able to composite shots effectively.
• Node based or After Effects compositing ideal.
• Stereoscopic expertise a plus.
• 2-4 years of previous experience in feature film compositing required.

Rotoscope/Paint Artist
Primary responsibilities and skill-sets:

• Frame by frame rotoscoping to live-action plate elements.
• The ability to create photo-real clean plates and track them onto live action plates.
• Ability to effectively hand-paint on live action plates when needed.
• An understanding of HD and Film grain and how to replicate it on clean plates.
• Solid tracking skills in a 3D or 2D tracking package. Knowledge how to export and use this data in a compositing package.
• A creative and proactive attitude to the task at hand.
• To organize their time, collaborate, and effectively communicate with their supervisors and colleagues.
• To stay positive and creative in the chaos of the production environment.
• An understanding of movement essential.
• Must have some technical understanding of a 3d software package.
• Must have a great eye for detail.
• Experience in Silhouette Fx critical, After Effects, and node based compositing, a plus.
• Stereoscopic expertise a plus.

Senior Match-Movers
Primary responsibilities and skill-sets:

• Must be able to reproduce exact camera moves within a computer environment.
• Understanding of photography and the effects of different lenses on perspectives.
• Artist, animator or camera operator experience is a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of Maya.
• Must have the ability to work under tight deadlines, and possess excellent problem solving skills.
• Good written and oral communication skills including strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience in gathering information on location for Match movers.
• Maintains an expert level of knowledge about current developments in match-move tools for computer graphics, especially in areas that relate to the film industry.
• Must have a willingness to improve skills, be detail-oriented and to work efficiently within a production environment.
• Stereoscopic expertise a plus.

Please contact Liz Crawford @ lizc@factoryvfx.com with your resume and a link to your online demo reel.

Thank you. Factory VFX is an E.O.E.

Description

MPC’s dynamic production team is always looking for new talent to join their team, if visual effects is your passion we want to hear from you. Currently we dont have any live positions for the below but we would still love you to get in touch for any future positions in which will come up.

* Production Assistant
* Production Coordinator
* Production Manager
* Producer

With a full schedule of exciting shows for 2011 if your interested in joining the team please apply and we look forward to hearing from you.

Please apply below:
http://www.moving-picture.com/index….jobslondonfilm

Description

* Tackling the Compositing of shots effectively.
* Briefing junior compositors when dividing of shots into tasks (e.g. rotoscoping) is required.
* Delivering final shots that are creative and technically excellent.
* Attend daily progress reviews to obtain feedback from supervisors.
* Work to improve knowledge of MPC’s Compositing pipeline.
* Work with production to create Compositing schedules and project targets.
* Work with the Compositing HOD to define the Compositing pipeline required for the show and identify any additions or modifications to our existing toolset required to realise this pipeline.
* Supervise compositing of CG elements to match live-action footage to maintain consistent shot quality and look.
* Report on the progress of the lighting work on the show to the Lighting HOD, with particular regard to the following:
* If the team are meeting deadlines
* Technical issues
* Production issues
* R&D requests
* Team morale

Requirements:

* Previous experience with a high-level film based Compositing system using Shake and Nuke.
* Excellent understanding of techniques and technologies related to CG rendering and compositing.
* Excellent understanding of the whole digital film pipeline from scanner to film recorder.
* Proven technical and creative ability in a broadcast or feature-film production environment.
* General understanding of linux/unix-based operating systems.
* Ability to take direction and structure working practices so that design changes can be efficiently made.
* Desire to learn from other and to take on increasingly challenging shots.
* Excellent team building, communication and problem solving skills
* Excellent knowledge of node-based compositing software
* Proven technical and creative ability in a large feature-film VFX production environment

Please apply to the link below:
http://www.moving-picture.com/index….jobslondonfilm