Studio: Framestore
Job Opening:Â Layout and Matchmove TD
Location: London, United Kingdom
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Camera/assets staging/blocking
- Overseeing Previs and Postvis ingestion
- Setup and maintenance of Conforms
- Restaging of cameras and assets when needed
- Shot content maintenance for animation
- Overseeing Motion Capture Ingestion/distribution
- Matchmove objects/characters to match the action in the live-action plates
- camera tracking, character matchmoving, solving lens distortion, deformation matching of surfaces, solving native stereo plates
- Adapt to tracking techniques established by the Layout Supervisor
- Manages notes from Supervisor’s and ensure they are addressed
- Ensure quality control and check tracked cameras to meet studio standards
Qualifications & Skills:
- Strong Maya knowledge with excellent problem solving skills and a solid understanding of the visual effects pipeline
- Good attention to detail and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues in order to maintain continuity within the sequence
- Strong demonstrable experience in sequence and shot composition
- Good working knowledge of cinematography in a virtual environment
- Previous experience of scene layout to match previs or storyboard reference (preferred)
- Excellent understanding of practical cameras and camera techniques
- Previous experience in camera tracking and animation blocking
- Excellent technical problem solving skills – Basic mel and python scripting is ideal but not required
- Ability to work under pressure on potentially short turn around times
- Ability to take direction and feedback well from a supervisor
- Organisation skills and able to create tidy scenes for use in the rest of the pipeline
- Tracking and MatchMove experience in 3DEqualizer is essential
