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Compositing Supervisor,Effects Technical Directors (Houdini)

Cloth Technical Director

Senior Look Dev Artists

Senior VFX Coordinator

Senior Rigger / Character TD

Compositors Mid & Senior

Compositors

Compositing Supervisor

Position Overview

The Compositing Supervisor will supervise, monitor, direct and influence all aspects of high-end, feature film compositing across multiple projects. This position is directly responsible for ensuring the disciplines of compositing, roto & paint are able to seamlessly integrate multi-pass cg assets into live action plates. Your primary focus is on ensuring your leads are supported in managing their own teams' performance while representing your department's interest across the wider production environment.

You are an established leader who is respected by your peers and those you have previously reported to. You are inclusive in discussion, an excellent time manager and forward thinker who delivers to schedule and to brief. You keep your cool under the weight of delivery frequency. You adjust and tune your team as required. With your eye constantly on the ball, you are able to spot team strengths and weaknesses. By maintaining a collaborative approach, you will foster a team where knowledge sharing is prized and results in widespread performance improvement. You will ensure team members are fully briefed, engaged and utilised to their full potential.

Naturally you possess an expert level of understanding of composition, colour theory & image properties. With extensive high-profile feature film credits under your belt, you are likely to have established your career in similar supervisory or leadership roles with recognised VFX houses across the globe. You know who you are!

Responsibilities

Ensure RSP delivers quality shots on time and on budget.
Set quality expectations for your department.
Manage lead performance issues by regularly meeting with those reporting directly to you.
Help leads resolve issues they face in dealing with their own crew, resolving conflicts as required.
Work with VFX Supervisor and VFX Producer to build client confidence early.
Work with production, pipeline, lighting, environment & effects teams on efficiency measures to improve all aspects of delivery.
Reduce waste by clarifying goals and improving internal processes related to compositing.
Establish quality control standards and approve compositing team output assessing consistency and quality, ensuring all deliveries are in line with technical and creative delivery requirements.
Contribute to and lead company wide creative and technical discussion, with a view to raising the quality level of the final image.
Supervise compositing training agenda, by identifying areas of potential improvements.
Lead by example, be accountable and hold others to account.
Promote a collaborative and enjoyable workplace influencing morale, fostering purposeful discussions and a positive work ethic.

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum 7 years professional experience creating high-end effects for live-action feature films.
Expert user of Nuke.
Excellent self organisation, communication and crew management skills.
Thorough understanding of the VFX pipeline [mono & stereo] covering the entire post-production process.
Some experience with creating templates, scripts and tool development.
Have a proven record of resolving the most difficult of compositing challenges.
Thorough understanding of the math behind comp operations.
Able to work in a Linux based operating system using command line tools.
Working knowledge of other disciplines such as tracking, layout, environment, effects and lighting as well as other industry standard software such as maya, houdini and 3dequaliser.
Real world understanding of physics, math, proportion, depth and colour.
Understanding of naturalistic light and motion with a focus on dynamics and natural phenomenon.
Superior level of attention to detail and strong eye for aesthetic composition.
Maintain a calm and professional demeanour in a delivery focused work environment.
Technical and creative problem solving with a can-do mindset.

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Effects Technical Directors (Houdini)

Position Overview

Reporting directly to RSP’s effects leads, you will be responsible for creating wide ranging natural phenomena for a variety of live action feature films. Applicants presenting highly realistic effects work in their portfolio, will be reviewed with priority. RSP is a Houdini based effects facility operating in a Linux system environment. All candidates must be have deep experience with Houdini and be comfortable with Linux.

You are a professional artist who works collaboratively with your team and those working in other departments. You are an excellent time manager and forward thinker who delivers to schedule and to brief. Using Houdini, you have previously been responsible for creating wide ranging naturalistic effects simulation including destruction, water, fire, procedural environments and character effects.

Your ability to own your delivery is highly regarded by your previous supervisors. As a professional effects artist and effects technical director, you provide confidence to the production team because you maintain absolute clarity in what is expected of you. You are the artist who seeks to understand and subsequently nail the brief.

Responsibilities

Create and deliver effects; including rigid body dynamics, fluid simulations, cloth simulations and generic particle effects, that match the creative and technical brief.
Tightly adhere to production schedule and deliver to key milestones, presenting your work-in-progress daily.
Work with animation, lighting & compositing as necessary in order to meet FX animation objectives.
Adapt your effects as the brief evolves.
Diagnose and resolve issues with your own Houdini and Python scripts.
Review and QA your work for internal and external delivery ensuring it hits creative and technical notes.
Assemble and / or modify complex shaders.
Create consistent lighting and effects render passes for compositing.
Create effects composites in order to demonstrate the effect relative to the plate.
Work in a manner that allows other effects team members to pick up your work if necessary.
Contribute to creative and technical conversations, with a view to raising the quality level of the final image.
Expect additional delegated tasks from effects supervisor and leads.
Manage your workload. Advise your lead of any obstacles which may affect delivery quality, timeliness or budget.
Promote a collaborative and enjoyable workplace influencing morale, fostering purposeful discussions and a positive work ethic.

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum 5 years professional experience creating high-end effects for live-action feature films.
Expert user of Houdini.
Complex shading and render experience using Houdini’s Mantra.
Utilitarian knowledge of other discipline software such as Maya, Nuke and industry standard tracking software.
Strong coding experience using Python and hscript.
Maintain a calm and professional demeanour in a delivery focused work environment.
Real world understanding of physics, math, proportion, depth and colour.
Understanding of naturalistic light and motion with a focus on dynamics and natural phenomenon.
Superior level of attention to detail and strong eye for aesthetic composition.
Expert organisational skills.
Technical and creative problem solving with a can-do mindset.

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Cloth Technical Director

Position Overview

Reporting directly to the Animation Supervisor, this position will be required to create cloth simulations across a range of 3d assets including digi-doubles, sails, flags, hero vehicles, etc. Your strong understanding of physical movement and the effect of natural environmental forces, ensure your simulations hit the creative brief.

As an accomplished and professional artist, you have excellent animation sensibilities and well developed creative eye. You will have achieved previous success at a number of high profile VFX studios in roles such as Cloth Technical, Character TD, Effects Animator, etc. You are adaptable, in that you can work varying in-house rigging systems. You may be currently creating high-end game cinematics and be looking to extend your career into visual effects.

Demonstrated experience with Maya rigging & animation tools and high end cloth systems is a fundamental pre-requisite for successful applicants.

Responsibilities

Deliver dynamic cloth simulations across a wide range of CG assets required for live action footage augmentation & transition.
Create & adjust highly adjustable, physically plausible cloth rigs.
Work closely with other Cloth TD's Modellers and Animators to achieve prescribed delivery.
Demonstrate progress through the regular submission of work in progress and daily updates.
Clearly communicate with production any delays or obstacles that may impact your delivery.
Provide thorough QA and sanity checks of rigs before they reach your internal client.

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum 2 years high-end cloth simulation experience using native, commercial and self developed rigging tools within a Maya working environment.
Experience with simulating digital hair advantageous, but not essential in this role.
Strong experience scripting in Mel & Python.
Artistic and real-world understanding of dynamics, proportion, depth, scale, and physical space.
Expert people management/leadership and organisational skills.
Maintain a calm and professional demeanour in a deadline focused work environment.
Technical and creative problem solving with a service oriented mindset.
Visual Effects, Fine Art, Computer Science, Physics or Mathematics or related tertiary qualification may be required for international applicants.

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Senior Look Dev Artists

Position Overview

Working across a number of live action projects, Look Dev Artists will be required to develop and realise the creative brief, creating the final look of a range of assets. Applicants presenting photo realistic work will be reviewed and responded to with priority.

Your previously held positions are likely to have included Senior Texture Artist, Lighting TD, Shader Writer, etc.

Responsibilities

Interpret the visual brief as delivered from the Art Department and Supervisors.
Assemble shader networks that meet their creative & technical brief.
Adjust existing shaders & Looks as required by sequence supervisors and leads.
Work with Lighters to ensure shaders can be rendered without issue.
Work within, maintain and update the existing shader library as appropriate.
Regularly demonstrate your work in progress.
Review your work prior to submission, ensuring it hits creative and technical notes, adjusting where necessary.
Communicate with Shader Writers & Texture Artists to ensure a visual outcomes.
Strong understanding of colour/bit depth/resolution and how they affect the shader process.
Actively mentor and develop less experienced team members.

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum 2-4 years Look Development & Lighting experience.
Fine art background.
Previous experience assembling and modifying shaders & looks in Houdini's VOPS ideal.
Strong experience with Physically Based Rendering.
Professional user of Houdini and Mantra.
Some experience with scripting/programming languages (python, MEL, PERL, C, C++, shell scripting).
Some exposure with Photoshop, Nuke, Mari, Z-Brush & Mudbox is desirable, but not essential. Note: RSP operates in a Linux system environment and uses Shotgun.
Maintain a calm and professional demeanour in a delivery focused work environment.
Real world understanding of key principles in colour & light.
Expert organisational and time-management skills.
Technical and creative problem solving with a can-do mindset.

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Senior VFX Coordinator

Position Overview

Reporting directly to the Production Manager, RSP's Senior VFX Coordinators are an integral part of the company's visual effects success as they drive and monitor asset and shot production to delivery. Your written and oral communication excellence and proactive nature set you apart from others. You take responsibility for your assignments, following up and reporting clearly across multiple VFX disciplines and projects.

Your previous titles may include Line Producing, Senior Coordinating, Production Managing, etc. You are an expert multi-tasker, time manager and communicator. You are focussed on creating an environment that allows people and teams to quickly reach weekly and rolling deadlines. With a solid work ethic, you represent company values with integrity and honesty, delivering results that exceed expectation.

This role will share joint responsibility for the leadership and management of a small team of coordinators. This position differs from the VFX Coordination positions in that Senior VFX Coordinators schedule and define major milestones with supervisors and leeds. Schedules created will feed into the master resource schedule defined by the Production Manager.

Responsibilities

Seeking input from show supervisors, create and set project schedules & deliveries on a departmental and show basis within allocated resources and timeframes.
Coordinate and track the progress of deliverables and targets against overall project plans.
Communicate variations from the resource plan and propose solutions to the Production Manager.
Resolve any impasse between departments, communicating resolutions as necessesary.
Accurately update and maintain information systems with a focus on Shotgun.
Consistently QA the input and output of more junior coordinators.
Work with supervisors to develop lead and team performance.
Empower supervisors to be responsible for their workload rather than becoming a chief note taker
Maintain strong project knowledge, without having everything rest on your shoulders - ensure all information is readily available
Manage production petty cash, cab & freight charges and catering expense reports.
Attend team and client dailies and briefing sessions, taking accurate notes and quickly communicating detail to appropriate users.
Continually check in with your own team assisting them to overcome impasse and interdepartmental blockers.
Work with Editorial to ensure the successful, QA’d delivery of work to the client.
Set delivery priorities for render wranglers, providing guidance on render farm targets.
Look ahead to upcoming show delivery requirements, meeting with key leads ensuring crew are briefed accordingly.
Manage any reference materials for artists as required.
Be proactive to ensure nothing is overlooked.
Mentor and actively develop junior production crew members and those under your direct sphere of influence.
Promote a collaborative and enjoyable workplace influencing morale, discussion and work ethic.

Required skills and experience

Minimum 4-years feature-film post-production [VFX vendor side] experience.
Practical understanding of the entire production pipeline process.
Extensive production experience with Shotgun.
Multi-disciplinary understanding derived from working within Effects, Lighting, Compositing and Asset Teams.
Familiarity working in Mac and Linux environments with command line experience.
Sound experience scheduling complex and multi-faceted projects.
Maintain a calm and professional demeanour in a deadline focused work environment.
Expert time management and prioritisation skills.
Sharpened tactical and creative problem solving sensibilities with a can-do mindset.

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Senior Rigger / Character TD

Position Overview

Reporting directly to the Asset Supervisor, the Senior Rigger / Character TD will be required to quickly and accurately create rigs for organic and hard surface models, specifically digital doubles. Your precise work and strong understanding of physical expression and movement allows animators to easily complete believable movement.

As an accomplished and professional rigger, you will have achieved success while working at a number of high profile VFX studios, working with different rigging systems and tools. You are the rigger who is called upon to complete work on digi-double close ups.

Demonstrated experience with Maya is a fundamental pre-requisite for successful applicants.

The strength of your creative eye, excellent communication, collaboration and leadership skills are all highly regarded by your peers. You provide confidence to production you have absolute clarity in what is expected of you and conduct yourself with professionalism.

Responsibilities

High Ability to deliver dynamic character solutions for a full range of CG shots plus live action footage augmentation / transitions.
Create adjustable, anatomically correct human and facial rigs with intuitive animation controls, to tight delivery and quality standards.
Ensure muscle systems deform the model cleanly and accurately.
Build a wide catalogue of blend shapes.
Work closely with modellers and animators to define the purpose of the rig.
Ensure rigging controls are fully adjustable as per feedback, being mindful of the models parameters and limitations.
Demonstrate rigging progress through the regular submission of work in progress and daily updates.
Complete basic modelling & animation tasks as required, to achieve and rigging objectives.
Clearly communicate with production any delays or obstacles that may impact your delivery.
Provide thorough QA and sanity checks of rigs before they hit your internal client.

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum 5-years high-end rigging experience using native, commercial and self developed rigging tools within Maya.
Strong experience scripting in python.
Thorough understanding of human anatomical features, subtleties, quirks and limitations.
Maintain a calm and professional demeanour in a deadline focused work environment.
Real world understanding of proportion, depth, scale, and physical space.
Expert people management/leadership and organisational skills.
Technical and creative problem solving with a can-do mindset.
Computer Science, Physics or Mathematics or related tertiary qualification may be required for international applicants.

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Compositors Mid & Senior

Position Overview

Reporting directly to RSP’s compositing leads, you will be responsible for creating multi-layered composites for live action feature films. Applicants presenting highly realistic composites (over stylised composites) in their portfolio, will have their application reviewed with priority. RSP is a Nuke based effects facility operating in a Linux system environment. All candidates must have extensive experience with Nuke and be comfortable working in Linux.

You are a professional artist who works collaboratively with your team and those working in other departments. You are an excellent time manager and forward thinker who delivers to schedule and to brief. You have previously been responsible for creating complex composites that incorporate naturalistic effects simulation, environments and matte painting and native live action elements.

Your ability to own your delivery is highly regarded by your previous supervisors. As a professional compositor, you continually provide confidence to your production team through regular updates. You maintain clarity and focus when crunch time hits and know what is expected of you. You maintain a good working relationship with artists that are delivering to you from other departments and are proactive in resolving issues that may delay deliveries.

Responsibilities

Create complex multi-layered composites from mixed sources.
Use your well-developed understanding of colour space [film formats] and expert eye, to achieve stunning and complex composites.
Work with lighting team members as necessary in order to meet compositing objectives.
Adapt your comp setups as the brief evolves.
Review and QA your work for internal and external delivery ensuring it hits creative and technical notes.
Assemble and / or modify other compositors work.
Ensure continuity is upheld across shots and sequences.
Develop and maintain a working relationship with 2d and 3d artists and technicians.
Work in a manner that allows other compositing team members to pick up your work if necessary.
Contribute to creative and technical conversations, with a view to raising the quality level of the final image.
Manage your workload. Advise your lead of any obstacles which may affect delivery quality, timeliness or budget.
Promote a collaborative and enjoyable workplace influencing morale, fostering purposeful discussions and a positive work ethic.

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum 5 years creating high-end composites for live-action feature films.
Expert user of Nuke.
Utilitarian knowledge of other discipline software such as Maya, Houdini and industry standard tracking software.
Superior level of attention to detail and strong eye for aesthetic composition.
Real world understanding of physics, math, proportion, depth, light and colour.
Maintain a calm and professional demeanour in a delivery focused work environment.
Expert organisational skills.
Technical and creative problem solving with a can-do mindset.

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