Cinesite Studios Recruiting Senior Roto/Prep Artist - VFX
WORKING FROM HOME: All Cinesite’s employees are currently working from home and we plan to continue working remotely until it is safe for us to return to our Soho office in central London. We expect all applicants to have a reliable broadband connection with a bandwidth of 20Mbps or higher.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
The creation of accurate roto
Cleanup tasks, including but not limited to, rig removal, marker removal, cleaning green or blue screens, artifacts removal, beauty work/cosmetic fixes
Complete complex cleanup tasks in Nuke
Complete basic compositing tasks in Nuke
Communicating with peers and other departments to ensure efficient delivery of your task
The ability to "Quality Check" yours and others work
Composites finaling ( with paint )
We’d like to talk to you if you have the following:
Punctuality
Knowledge of Nuke essential
Knowledge of Silhouette preferred
Passionate with a "can do" attitude
A solid and confident understanding of Paint and Roto techniques
The ability to work fast and accurately
Excellent communication skills
The ability to work well alongside other Rotoscopy/Prep artists and departments
Min 2 years Previous film industry experience, due to the complexity of the work (preferred)
Being efficient at "frame by frame" painting in Silhouette is an advantage
The ability to use Silhouette for rotoscoping as required is preferred
An understanding of Compositing: keying, CG, cameras, using geometry, creating cameras, depth-maps, vectors, grading
The ability to bid ( time ) your own shots
An understanding of the VFX pipeline
An ability to voice and predict issues that may occur
The ability to complete Junior composting tasks
What can we offer?
Cinesite offers a positive, creative environment where the world’s leading animation and effects artists are encouraged and supported to develop and produce challenging, cutting-edge , award-winning work.
We work as a collective, where excellence, expertise and expression are valued by all; where we collaborate with some of the world’s leading creative thinkers and produce work to which we are proud to put our name.
If you want to be part of the Cinesite story, please submit your application as an online submission via this website. If your candidacy is successful, you will be contacted shortly. If your application is not retained for this position, it will stay on file for future opportunities.