Senior CGI Artist - Bristol, United Kingdom - Marks, part of SGS & Co

Description

We're the next generation brand design and experience agency - boutique in mindset, entrepreneurial in spirit, global in scale - uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change.

Worldwide, we're over 500 divergent talents, across 18 locations, united in a seamless end-to-end methodology with our parent company, SGS&Co. Our focus is on 'adaptive' delivery, the fuel that powers our clients to move fast, move forward and move confidently.

We are currently seeking a Senior CGI Artist to join our talented and supportive team based in Birmingham. This is an outstanding opportunity for a CGI generalist with experience of crafting highly finished brand and product visuals to join a global agency that is embarking on an exciting growth journey.

Along with possessing the required technical and creative skills, no doubt you will also be a confident and empathetic individual, and therefore be trusted to mentor and develop your fellow artists. This opportunity will offer you the scope to develop your leadership skills further, along with further opportunities for career progression as the team expands and evolves into an integrated content studio.

Furthermore, you will have the opportunity to work with an awesome household name global client – we can't say who – but they're amazing.

More importantly than any of the above, you will of course be a team player, who enjoys working in collaboration. Our hybrid working model strikes a balance between flexibility and enabling you to collaborate with your creative design and production colleagues in a supportive and nurturing environment.

In this exciting role you will:

• Visualise brand concepts & products to a very high standard

• Carry out modelling, lighting, compositing, retouching, and moving image work

• Mentor, line manage and develop the technical skills of a small team of CGI artists

• Optimise and troubleshoot any CGI related issues that may arise in the studio

• Compose own renders and other artists renders in Nuke, when needed

• Demonstrate very high levels of creative and technical skills to fulfil even the most complex creative request to an excellent standard

• Propose and explore new ideas for ways of working, whilst continuously striving to increase the quality of work and efficiency in the studio

You will have:

• Expert knowledge of Autodesk Maya, V-Ray and Nuke

• Excellent general CG skills, need to be able to come up with methods to achieve excellent results to (sometimes) obscure, creative requests

• Knowledge of most aspects of CG, ability to implement and suggest new workflows if needed

• Knowledge of the other major CG applications like Houdini, Unreal Engine, Zbrush, Blender etc.
• A keen eye for lighting in a product-centric environment

• Good knowledge of different lighting techniques and workflows

• Good knowledge of CG compositing in Nuke, comfortable rebuilding and working with multi-pass renders

When working for Marks you will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with an outstanding suite benefits including :

• 25 days holiday per annum + additional 'Me Day'

• Flexible working during summer hours

• Pension Scheme

• Voluntary SGS Europe Group Healthcare Scheme

• Life Assurance

• Healthcare Digital GP Service

• Holiday purchase scheme

• Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme

• City Bike Scheme (London only)

• Employee referral program