Visualisation Lead - London, United Kingdom - Cinesite

Cinesite

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

FLEXIBILITY:
Cinesite has transitioned to a flexible way of working, embracing workplace shifts spurred by the pandemic.

**Job Description

Managing ongoing and incoming work that affects the Visualisation Asset department
Tracking task progression of other team members and assisting said tasks when necessary
Liaising with supervisors and other team leads to ensure smooth running of the department
Assisting with creating required hard surface and environmental assets when appropriate
Developing said assets to work seamlessly within the company pipeline
Thorough knowledge and understanding of internal documentation and processes
Mindful of best practices to maintain quality control of assets in the pipeline
Understanding and interpreting Art Department plans and conceptual illustrations
Assisting with Bidding and other light production level tasks
Using a variety of techniques to compose and animate sequences, delivering high quality storytelling animations, and well composed shots to a client brief
Creating shots and sequences from storyboards and/or script pages to enhance story
Animating cameras, creatures, props, and vehicles through both keyframe animation and utilising motion capture data
Creating techvis for onset reference and postvis following a shoot
Generating scene layouts within an environment, including position and timing of assets and camera placement
Contributing creatively with ideas to enhance the storytelling, action and visual aspect of shots and sequences Working with basic FX animation

**Requirements

5+ years production experience in a VFX and/or visualisation
Able to work at one of the major UK film studios (work may be based in London, or at the UK studios all based around the M25)
Comprehensive knowledge of animation in Maya including use of animation layers
Comprehensive knowledge of Unreal including the sequencer and blueprints
Understanding of physical limits in realworld cinematography
Basic knowledge of physical shoot setups, and familiarity with onset equipment
Team orientated and able to take direction from Supervisor
Adaptable and flexible and accepting of changes
Good communication and organisational skills
Creative problem solver with good attention to detail
Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines, whilst maintaining high quality results
Experience with the following are desirable:
Basic particle animation
Generalist 3d skills i.e. simple modelling / texturing
Virtual camera systems
Motion Capture Suits Running realtime virtual production sessions with clients

**What can we offer?

Cinesite offers a positive, creative environment where the world's leading animation and effects artists are encouraged and supported to develop and produce challenging, cutting-edge, award-winning work.

We work as a collective, where excellence, expertise and expression are valued by all; where we collaborate with some of the world's leading creative thinkers and produce work to which we are proud to put our name.