PIXOMONDO Los Angeles, Senior Nuke Roto/Paint Artist

[PixomondoLLC]

Senior Paint Artist
Location: Santa Monica, CA

Start Date: asap

PIXOMONDO is currently seeking a Senior 5+ years Nuke Paint Artist who is responsible for creating mattes that accurately reflect the motion of a particular object over a series of frames. Painting, may also be required to remove unwanted artifacts, reconstruct a background or digitally correct a render or composite for feature film


Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Experience with Nuke ONLY
• Demonstrate excellent rotoscoping skills:
• Sophisticated shape creation and editing.
• Shape animation (by hand and w/ nukes new trackers and 3D cameras).
• Shape compositing, fill modes, opacity settings.
• Compositing roto, plate and color correction nodes to produce, render, and review color-overlay for roto check.
• Demonstrate paint skills:
• Advanced Knowledge of 3D projection, Planar Tracking
• Marker removal paint.
• Rig removal paint.
• Plate restoration.
• \"Crane removal*\" (*Catchall for the ever-increasing amount of production gear, crew, etc. left in the frame.)
• Stereo Plate prep (C-match, V-Align, Disparity-Map).
• 2-3+ years Stereo paint is a must
• Photoshop experience is a must

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

• 5+ years paint and experience minimum industry experience on feature films
• Hand paint and \"procedural\" or \"comp\" paint is a must.
• Excellent knowledge in Nuke. 6.2 and higher
• Handle extremely difficult paint tasks.
• Stereo production experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Fast and efficient.
• Team player with great attitude.
• Dependable and flexible.
• Takes direction well.
• Exercises close attention to detail.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines
• Strong Communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work within a strong team environment, and willingness to share his/her knowledge

To Apply for this Position:

• Include your current resume, reel breakdown and a link to your demo reel.
• Local applicants only, relocation costs not covered for these positions. Must be eligible to work in the US.
• Make sure your resume also includes your name, address, phone, and email.
• Submit an email with the Subject “Senior Paint Artist, LA” to losangeles@pixomondo.com
• Please no walk in applicants.

For more information please go to: www.pixomondo.com