Roto/Prep Lead required at The Embassy

RotoPrep Lead required at The Embassy

Studio: The Embassy

Job Opening: Roto/Prep Lead

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Type: Full-Time

Responsibilities:

  • Liaise with the Comp/3D Supervisors to understand the requirements for a project
  • Provide Roto brief drawings and descriptions to send to outsource vendors, with the
  • Handles roto prep tasks when needed
  • Ability to talk through any briefs with outsource vendors as required.
  • Lead live meetings with outsource vendors to discuss schedules, briefings and kickbacks
  • Act as the key contact for production and supervisors, ensuring clear communication,
  • Handle creative challenges, solutions and changes in production & scheduling
  • Assist in the bidding process for roto and prep tasks
  • Accountable for briefing and QC’ing incoming external work and internal work
  • Make adjustments and refine roto and prep of varying degrees of difficulty.
  • Publish QC approved roto and prep into the system

Qualifications & Skills:

  • 4+ years as a Roto/Prep Artist in the VFX industry, supplemented with several years’ experience leading a team
  • Experienced in generating detailed Roto to create mattes for compositing tasks
  • Possesses a wide range of Paint skills using hand paint and procedural techniques such as projections
  • Strongly versed in Nuke, Hiero and Silhouette
  • Be comfortable with degrain and regrain procedures
  • Excellent grasp of the whole filmmaking process from pre- through post-production
  • Possess great interpersonal skills; team-oriented, friendly and a people’s person
  • Be deadline driven and pro-active in finding solutions
  • Legal authorization to work in Canada
  • Knowledge of Shotgun or similar show databases is an asset

Apply for the Job Online: To apply, visit https://the-embassy-vfx-inc.hiringthing.com/job/286499/roto-prep-lead