Environments Lead
Sony Imageworks
Vancouver, BCThis was removed by the employer on 2/13/2019 11:57:00 AM PST
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Full Time Job
Sony Imageworks Vancouver is seeking an Environments Lead!
Job Description:
As an Environments Lead at SPI, you will be responsible for the design and creation of detailed large-scale full-CG and matte painted environments for live-action and animated features.
You will use a flexible generalist approach to your work, but within the context of a mature pipeline with well-defined standards.
You will lead teams of environment artists and TDs, directing their efforts and providing creative and technical support where needed.
Requirements:
• Ideally 7 years experience making environments for high-end live-action vfx feature films and/or television series.
• Experience on animated feature films a bonus but not essential.
• 2 years experience leading teams of artists.
• Environment modelling
• Natural Environments: landscapes, foliage, rocks & debris, etc.
• Urban Environments: background cities.
• Environment Texturing & Lookdev
• Procedural & painted texturing
• Generating flow/deposition/erosion/arbitrary masks to modulate texturing/lookdev
• Basic lookdev setup
• Environment dressing/layout
• Scattering tools & manual layout
• Matte Painting
• Painting/photocollage
• Multi-camera projections on geometry
• Software
• Photoshop, Nuke, Maya, Speedtree
• Houdini Landscape Tools, Terragen, WorldMachine, Vue or similar.
Nice to have:
• Experience working within a large-scale vfx pipeline
• Software: Mari, Substance Designer/Painter, Houdini, Katana/Arnold
• Administrative skills
• Budgeting
• Crewing
• Soft skills
• Good leadership ability
• Good client interaction