Job Opening: Compositor, Technical Director
Location: Emeryville, California, USA
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Responsibilities:
- Partner with lighting and FX technical directors to establish and fine-tune the look of assigned shots.
- Maintains the overall look, color balance, and quality for assigned shots and sequences to create uniformity in all finished work.
- Work alongside department leadership on creative and technical solutions for larger projects.
- Develop and maintain compositing scripts used by other technical directors.
- Work with upstream departments and provide feedback on assets needed for final shot polish.
- Participate in discussions regarding cross-departmental technical needs.
- Create and support gizmos and scripts used by other technical directors.
- Work with FX, lighting, and rendering to optimize shot work.
- May need to render the necessary passes required to complete the final look.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Expert knowledge of Nuke in a production environment
- Strong understanding of VFX compositing techniques (fx integration, 3D projection, lens effect, deep compositing)
- Professional VFX experience in feature film preferred ( or 5-10 years experience in VFX feature films)
- Ability to work collaboratively with artists from other disciplines
- Experience debugging and supporting other artists’ nuke scripts
- Experience teaching and supporting large groups of the artist is a plus
- Experience developing gizmos for nuke (scripting experience in TD, python is a plus)
- Creative problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Strong understanding of lighting and a desire to learn more about lighting in a 100% CG environment
- Unix or Linux operating system
- Working knowledge of Katana (preferred) or another 3D lighting software
- Strong eye for color, composition, and lighting design with close attention to detail
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