Studio: Jellyfish Pictures
Job Opening: Paint and Roto Artists – VFX
Location: India / Remote
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Analyze shots for components breakdown with minimal supervision
- Understand feedback given by supervisors
- Create roto mattes for Compositors to use and has a comprehensive understanding of how these mattes will be used
- Demonstrate the ability to use different techniques to remove rigs and tracking markers
- Strong eye for color and understand grain structure and successfully de-grains scans and re-grains paint work for further use
- Extensive understanding of 2D and 3D tracking and is able to create accurate, steady tracks
- Create foreground mattes for Animators to use within Maya
- Reconstruct plates or part of the plates even if the elements do not exist
- Research appropriate references and respect sequence continuity to ensure cohesive delivery
- Use expressions within Nuke to help aid paint work
- Understanding of the 3D environment within Nuke and is able to use geo data to
- project clean plates and understand how to use UV projections
- Demonstrate a willingness to learn new techniques and software and to share this knowledge with other artists in the department
Qualifications & Skills:
- Traditional art and design skills including a knowledge of composition and colour
- Previous use of Nuke
- An understanding of motion blur and how it affects mattes and patches
- A desire to learn new techniques and teach fellow artists
- An Arts or Science degree in a moving picture or art related subject
- Excellent organisational and communication skills
- Team-working abilities
- The ability to take criticism and feedback
- Good problem solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other artists
Desirable Skills:
- Prior experience in a Paint and Roto role
- 3D Maya interface experience
- Planar and point tracking software experience
- A general understanding of the VFX production and comp workflows
- A knowledge of photography and practical lighting
