Hasta La Motion!

Job Duties: Tracking
Genre(s): Visual Effects
Location: Culver City
Start Date: Late January 2011
Emmy Award nominated visual effects company in Culver City, CA has immediate availability for a 3D Motion Tracker. This individual must be available to work on-site or potentially relocate to our offices in Michigan. The candidate must have a keen eye for design, product modeling and brand experience for broadcast, industrial and film work.

The Tracking Artist is responsible for extracting the camera and / or the object’s motion from a live action plate to be used in a 3d or 2d environment.

Experience/Skills:

• It is essential that you have an understanding of camera and rigid-body tracking and the use of survey data when generating camera or objects tracks
• It is essential that you have experience using 3de and Maya (other manual use within tracking packages will be taken into consideration – Boujou, Matchmover, Syntheyes and Pftrack)
• It would be advantageous to have experience of 3d rotoAnimation matching a digital model to a live action plate
• It would be advantageous to have an understanding of 2d tracking using shake or nuke and have the general ability to produce low level comps to QC matchmoves, low res geometry, for line-up, shadow maps, etc for generating survey data from Image Modeller and real world camera attributes e.g. apertures, lenses and distortion
• You must be able to work well within a team environment and take direction from Cinesite’s Producers and Supervisors as appropriate
• Previous film industry experience is preferred

Along with your CV please submit a showreel demonstrating previous tracking experience. Please include a shot breakdown.

Please visit our website for more information:

www.ieeffects.com

or

Please submit your CV and showreel to: jobs@ieeffects.com