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