Senior/Lead Environments Artist

This is a Full Time Job

Position Requirements:

• Ability to create photo-realistic environments, matte paints and landscapes exhibiting a strong foundation in traditional and digital art skills with an emphasis on landscapes.
• Tasks: integrating added imagery into shots, preserving an unified sense of lighting, perspective, and color. Also responsible for creating original 2D and 3D content that may comprise a whole environment or parts of it.
• Combines painting skills in animation software, with knowledge of photography, practical and digital modeling, and design, to create 2D (and 2.5D) paintings for digital environments.
• Works closely with the VFX Supervisor and Head of Environment to ensure that plates meet planned concept design requirements.
• A good eye for detail.



Job Qualifications:

• 3 years of production experience.
• Very good Adobe Photoshop Knowledge.
• Some experience of Nuke is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of camera focal lengths, good sense of composition and an
understanding of different out-put requirements. Requires knowledge of 2D and 3D
animation, software, and motion.
• Strong knowledge and ability in perspective, value matching 35 mm photography, flatbed
scanning, and motion.
• Thorough knowledge of advanced matte painting techniques including color space, digital
paint techniques and Photoshop file management (file format, bit depth resolution or
appropriate layering of elements).
• A good understanding and application of basic perspective as a basis for a form
building/correcting strategy in the creation of the digital environments.
• Technical proficiency in photography with an emphasis on composition, depth, lighting
and color.