Paint & Roto Artist - London, United Kingdom - Black Kite Studios

Black Kite Studios

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Black Kite is an independent creative studio offering world-class visual effects and design. We are a talent-first, technology-inspired studio.

Our community is home to a collective of top-tier talent. A group of artists, creators, designers, producers and technologists that have come together to make exceptional artistic visual content.

THE ROLE

We are looking for experienced Paint & Roto Artists, who want to join a highly collaborative, creative team and have fun along the way.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Paint & Roto Artist at Black Kite Studios, you will create accurate mattes for extracting specific elements from plates; remove unwanted elements and artifacts, such as wires, rigs or tracking markers; and reconstruct plates or part of the plates even if the elements do not exist.

You will work really closely with our Compositing team & VFX Supervisors, gaining a deep understanding of what is required to make each shot and sequence work.

ABOUT YOU

You have previous experience working as a Paint & Roto artist in the VFX industry.
You have strong working knowledge of Nuke.
You have working knowledge of blue & green screen, roto, mattes and tracking technologies.
You understand the 3D environment within Nuke and can use geodata to project. clean plates and understand how to use UV projections.
You have a good eye for colour and understand grain structure.
You understand motion blur and how it affects mattes and patches.
You can accurately bid on how long paint and roto shots will take to complete.
You are willing to learn new techniques and software and like to share this knowledge with other artists.
You are a highly motivated, ambitious individual.
You have great communication skills.
You have excellent attention to detail.
You are dependable and flexible. You have strong problem solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other artists.

WHY US?

We believe in talent, creativity and innovation.

We believe that creativity is the differentiator, it sits at the very heart of everything we do and the reason why Black Kite was born.

We back ourselves to grow and be the best, to always improve, but never lose sight of our values and principles.

We care about our people.
At Black kite we look out for each other and believe in doing things the right way. We place importance on a code of shared ethics and treating people fairly and with respect.
We believe in the power of team work and togetherness to achieve the extraordinary.
We are big on ambition. We are excited about the future.