Digital Paint Artist

2 weeks ago


Vancouver, Canada Industrial Light & Magic Full time

**Position Summary**:
The Digital Paint Artist restores background plates and creates digital articulate mattes.

**What You’ll Do**:

- Demonstrates a strong eye for color and grain structures with the ability to match saturation, hues and black points from multiple sources to create a cohesive final montage
- Able to break shots down into individual components with little supervision
- Easily assimilates feedback given by supervisors
- Researches appropriate references including continuity with like shots. Proactively communicates this information to team
- Demonstrates a keen eye for recognizing paint artifacts, sharpness and color issues
- Able to handle complex shots with heavy motion blur, lots of layers, etc.
- Ability to use a combination of techniques when dealing with tricky wire removals and clean plates
- Demonstrates a basic ability to do “paint on comp” work to a high level of quality
- Working knowledge of color correction and Grain pipeline in Nuke.
- Ability to use layout and DM cameras in Nuke
- Ability to export track points between multiple toolsets
- Working knowledge of stereo compositing pipeline
- Demonstrates excellent troubleshooting skills
- Takes ownership and responsibility of shot. Proactively offers options and finds own solutions for production problems
- Actively works across departments in shot groups. Provides updates to production and other artists on shot progress

**What We’re Looking For**:

- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Drawing, Animation or equivalent artistic background and education required
- Minimum 3 years’ production experience in computer graphics, animation or video
- Professional experience with Silhouette and Nuke
- Ability to write Nuke gizmos and/or plugins is a plus
- Python and/or C++ experience a plus
- Computer proficiency including UNIX operating system; the ability to learn software and adapt scripts
- Must have an understanding of how their work fits into the pipeline and its effect on upstream and downstream departments
- Must have a willingness to learn new tools, a proven ability to be detail-oriented, and problem solving skills
- Adaptability and willingness to work under tight deadlines and to work efficiently within a production environment

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