Studio: Zoic Studios
Job Opening: Rotoscope/Paint Artist
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Type: Contracted
Responsibilities:
- Review stage elements with leadership. Shot assignments will be focused on complex shots.
- Follow up with compositors to ensure requested articulate mattes and/or paint work meets all technical and creative requirements.
- Use rotoscope techniques in Nuke or Silhouette to generate mattes and splines.
- Use paint and compositing techniques in Nuke to produce clean plates, remove rigs and seams or other artifacts, etc. This may involve generating pre-comps for use by compositors or taking shots to completion.
- Attend dailies, as necessary; receive and implement feedback.
- Drive tasks to completion and ensure deadlines are met.
- Oversee quality control of approved elements, publishes and handoffs for own work as well as work from more junior team members.
- Develop and maintain training material, mentor and train more junior members of the roto/paint team.
- Communicate delays with leads and production management via e-mail, updating shotGrid accordingly.
- Absorb shot work as needed, focusing on more complex shot work.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum 3 years Rotoscope/Paint experience, preferably on feature films.
- Strong eye for composition, detail, light, and color.
- Stereoscopic experience.
- Experience in Silhouette and Nuke (Furnace and After Effects experience, a plus).
- Ability to work efficiently and independently.
- Strong time management and problem-solving skills.
