Layout TD - VFX

Our client is a world renowned and well respected VFX house with offices in London, Munich and Montreal. From Event Horizon to Moon they are an artist-led studio with a long heritage for creating groundbreaking VFX across features and episodic.

The role: the Layout Artist is responsible for CG camera animation, tracked cameras, using cinematography principles, shot composition and character blocking to pre-visualize shots before the beginning of animation, FX, lighting and allowing down stream CG departments to use this as the foundation for shot construction.

Requiring a good attention to detail and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues in order to maintain continuity within the sequence.

We would like to talk to you if you have the following:

• Strong Maya knowledge with excellent problem solving skills and a solid understanding of the visual effects pipeline

• Excellent understanding of practical cameras and camera techniques.

• Excellent technical problem solving skills - these are key to the role so basic mel and python scripting is ideal but not required

• Ability to work under pressure on potentially short turn around times.

• Ability to take direction and feedback well from a supervisor.

• Ability to create organised and efficient scenes for use in the rest of the pipeline.

• Previous film industry experience (preferred)

• Previous experience in camera tracking and animation blocking is advantageous

• Previous experience of scene layout to match previs or storyboard reference (preferred)

• We welcome applications from Mid and Senior/Lead Level Layout Artists.