Lead Environment Generalist

2 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada Scanline VFX Full time

The Lead Environment Generalist is responsible for leading the Environment team and contributing to photo-realistic 2D and 3D environments and concepts. They work directly on tasks as well as providing guidance to team members.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Assess the most efficient methodology per environment brief. Approaches will vary from 2.5D Matte Painting projection setups, through full 3D asset builds, using both bespoke and procedural methods
- Evaluate the schedule and assign tasks to appropriate team members
- Provide confident leadership and mentorship to the Environments team
- Acquire photographic reference materials for accurate photo-real work
- Perform tasks related to integrating imagery into shots and preserving a unified sense of lighting, perspective, and color
- Create 2D paintings and 3D builds using photography, assets and reference material
- Communicate clearly and effectively with show production and creative colleagues
- Able to troubleshoot problems effectively either through technical know-how or via communication
- Ability to train and mentor junior artists to be productive members of the team
- Work closely with the VFX Supervisors to ensure high quality work is done smoothly and efficiently
- Provide artistic and technical direction to team members as well as receiving from supervisors
- Adept at translating notes from the client or VFX Supe into clear direction for the artist

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum five (5) years of previous experience as a Digital Matte Painter or Environment Artist for live action feature and/or television
- Proven team leadership and supervision skills
- Strong understanding of 3D packages such as Maya, Max and Houdini, and 2D packages such as Photoshop and Nuke
- Proficient with supplementary packages such as SpeedTree, Gaea, Substance and ZBrush
- Skilled at environment assembly, asset generation including modeling and texturing, scattering, set dressing
- Strong understanding of Nuke, 3D environment layout, Maya, and camera projections
- Knowledge of Lighting is a plus
- Strong time management and organisation of scene files, documentation and publishes

**About Us**

Scanline VFX is an award-winning leader in the visual effects industry with 7 studios worldwide, including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Seoul, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Vancouver. Since our beginning in 1989, we strive to set the highest standard of quality in everything we do. Through innovation, we generate solutions for our clients and raise the bar — both within our workplace and throughout our industry.

We look for explorers, people who are willing to go to new places and are open to testing, learning and iterating as they go. We believe great ideas come from everyone, so we actively encourage team members to ask questions and present their ideas.

**Eyeline Studios**

Eyeline Studios, our virtual production division, is rethinking the future of real-time filmmaking by providing content creators with unmatched flexibility. Learn more.

**Powered by Netflix**

Netflix’s investment in our pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows us to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in visual effects. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, we continue to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients.

**Come as you are**

We will only consider applicants based in British Columbia, or those willing to relocate.

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