Flame Artist - London, United Kingdom - The Mill

The Mill

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Company Description

The Mill is a global creative partner for agencies, production companies and brands, working across all media channels and platforms.

We are trusted specialists in visual effects, creative technologies and content production Our projects include the creation of digital products and virtual experiences, as well as world class visual effects and video production.

We are a vibrant network of talented artists, producers, directors, and creative technologists from multinational backgrounds.

We nurture innovation, flexibility, and diverse ideas across our studios in London, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Berlin and Bangalore.

We are all united by one single ambition:
To create extraordinary and memorable work that captivates and excites audiences.

We are The Mill. We create the extraordinary.

Job Description:

In this role the individual will have the confidence and ability to deal with clients, coordinating and guiding them through a group creative process, often with a great deal of diplomacy to achieve when working closely to the Senior Flame Artist, often working side by side on projects.

Although the individual is initially not expected to have their own client base, they are expected to build one by developing and working in tandem with young creative talent and on their own jobs.

Overtime the individual will become invaluable as a source of work to the Mill through the relationships that they build with their clients, often to the point where a client will only want to work with.

Responsibilities

To create visual effects for commercials from simple conforms through to managing complete jobs involving numerous complex compositions using both 2D and 3D elements.

The Junior Flame Artist will require the same creative and technical attributes as a Senior Artist and responsibilities will include:

Attending preproduction meetings
Managing large and complex workloads to deliver by deadlines.
Compiling clean ups of shots in addition to advising the production team by offering advice on technology and available processes for projects with lower budget requirements.
Building a strong client base by sourcing and developing relationships with young creative talent and clients on projects.
Working closely with the joint Heads of 2D and Senior Flame Artists to research, develop and implement new technology, and creative ideas.
Must be confident and ability to develop ideas, provide solutions to complex technical and creative issues.
Communicate with clients independently as they are required to manage the job in the Senior's absence and respond to external client queries.
Coordinating information from other departments such as 3D and other office locations (London, LA, and NY) to collate and deliver to the relevant senior creatives in a suitable format.
Research, develop, implement, and adapt new and current ideas and techniques.

Qualifications:

A degree in media or equivalent professional experience

Expert knowledge in complex visual effects packages such as: Nuke, Mocha, and Flame to complete rotoscoping, matt painting, keying, and colour correcting.
Assistant Flame Artists must be highly visually creative, can think laterally, have an acute sense for visual aesthetics, an indepth knowledge of the Discreet software and hardware they use, an indepth understanding of the technology used in the whole postproduction process including current technical specifications, video and data formats and a broad knowledge of film, video and shooting techniques for special effects compositing.
Excellent people and project management skills, an innate awareness of client requirements and the ability to communicate creative ideas and coordinate and guide those clients through a creative process with a great deal of diplomacy to achieve a result which is satisfactory to all.
Extensive and current knowledge of creative techniques and the ability to adapt them to fit the most visually complex of projects.