Studio: Framestore
Job Opening: Paint & Roto Lead
Location: Vancouver, QC, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Creating roto mattes for Compositors to use and having a comprehensive understanding of how these mattes will be used
- Leading a team of artists and being responsible for the quality check of the team’s output
- Liaising with production to help ensure an efficient schedule and distribution of work
- Working with the comp supervisor to prepare briefs and ensure quality
- Using patches and frame-by-frame painting techniques to remove rigs and tracking markers
- De-graining plates to be used for paint and compositing
- Creating foreground mattes for Animators to use within Maya
- Creating and reconstructing a picture that doesn’t exist
- Bidding the duration required for the various Paint and Roto tasks on a show
- Learning and developing specific Framestore gizmos and workflows
Qualifications & Skills:
- Traditional art and design skills including knowledge of composition and colour
- Previous use of Nuke
- Prior experience in a Paint and Roto role
- Prior knowledge of a Linux based operating system
- An understanding of motion blur and how it affects mattes and patches
- Prior use of a roto-scoping package, ideally Silhouette
- 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
- An understanding of the 3D environment within Nuke, being able to use geo data to project clean plates and understanding how to use UV projections
- Using expressions within Nuke to help aid paint work
Desirable Skills:
- 3D Maya interface experience
- An understanding of Python scripting and how to use this to create and edit Framestore gizmos
- Planar and point tracking software experience
- A general understanding of the VFX production and comp workflows
- A knowledge of photography and practical lighting
