Senior Maya Generalist - London, United Kingdom - Hogarth Worldwide

Hogarth Worldwide
Hogarth Worldwide
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Description
Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company.

Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world's top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson.

With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.


The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.


Our global team of over 6,000 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today's content experience.


A Hybrid working model


Now offices are fully open we have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations, something we hope will provide everyone much more flexibility to their working week.

The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for 60% of the time for most people.

Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team to find out more information.


Department Summary
Gramercy Park Studios is an integrated facility born to bring ideas to life in an adaptable and creative environment.

Our award winning talent in VFX, Colour Grading, Editing, Sound Design and Production sit under one roof to provide end to end services for the advertising and creative industries.


We collaborate with our clients to craft campaigns across multiple platforms and disciplines, adopting an innovative and agile approach to creative and post-production processes.


What does a Senior Maya Generalist do?


We are looking for an 'all-rounder' to join our VFX team with a good working knowledge across a small-scale, Maya animation pipeline.

Ideally, they will have some experience with character/creature animation using advance skeleton rigs, lighting, texturing and rendering.

They will be responsible for managing a character/creature-based project and supplying scenes & assets to the character animators, and integrating their output back into a master scene for lookdev & rendering.

There will also be some general 3D production for TVCs across a broad range of clients and some mentoring of the junior artists.


Responsibilities

  • Interpreting Agency briefs for an ongoing, fast turnaround, character series, whilst enhancing the workflow and tools to optimize this production pipeline
  • To be able to Manage projects, all of the assets and be able to allocate tasks to modelers and character animators and bring all of this together for final lookdev & rendering
  • The Senior Maya generalist will have a keen eye for character/creature movement and to be able to constructively feedback to the animators to rectify any issues or enhance their output, before submitting to the client for approval
  • Work alongside our friendly CGI and Motion team, across various clients and productions

Reporting Lines and Key Stakeholders
The role reports to the head of CGI and Motion at Gramercy Park Studios.


Essential Software Knowledge:


  • Maya

Essential Skills:


  • Previz
  • Poly Modelling
  • Layout
  • Character rigging using Advanced Skeleton
  • Some experience of character animation
  • General Animation
  • Particles/Fluids
  • Texturing
  • Lighting & multipass rendering with Redshift/Arnold

Desired Skills:


  • Mocap/Lipsync onto characters (MocapX)
  • Bifrost/Fluids
  • Basic compositing
  • Knowledge of USD Pipeline would be an advantage.

Desired Software Knowledge:


  • Houdini
  • 3dsMax
  • Vray
  • Nuke
  • After Effects
  • Photoshop
  • Shotgrid/Flow

Requirements:


  • You will need a great eye for detail and have a good understanding of character animation/rigging tools and workflows within Maya and Redshift
  • Have an understanding of compositing and delivering multipass renders to Nuke and Flame
  • Experience of Fluids would also be a very welcome bonus
  • Happy to mentor and share their industry experience and skills, with our junior artists
  • Experience working with clients

Hogarth Values

Heart and Soul:
We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.


Hands on:
We don't wait for things to happen, we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don't have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.


Honest:
We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.


Happy family:
We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don't lose perspective or our sense of humour.


Hungry:
We are an inquisitive community. We want to crea
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