Studio: Rising Sun Pictures
Job Opening: Compositing Supervisor
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Type: Full-Time
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 Head of 2D, VFX & CG Supervisor to build client confidence early
- Work with production, pipeline, lighting, environment & effects teams to ensure all aspects of delivery are efficient.
- 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 company wide creative and technical discussion, with a view to raising the quality level of the final image.
- Contribute to 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.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 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.
- 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.
- Problem solving with a can-do mindset
