Fusion Compositor - Vancouver

[Brad Reinke]

Prime Focus VFX delivers world-class visual effects to major feature film projects. Combining extensive experience in post visual effects production, look development and custom R&D solutions, Prime Focus offers clients a vast range of VFX services. We provide a local presence for production and post-production with integrated, collaborative offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver and Winnipeg, New York, London, and Mumbai India.

We have an immediate need for a project hire Fusion artist to join our team in our Vancouver office. This is a project hire position with roll over potential. While Vancouver residents are a plus, all applicants are being considered. Relocation will be provided for the right candidate.

A Fusion Artist at Frantic Films is responsible for creating and fine-tuning complex comps of CG and live-action elements to create image sequences for final delivery. Limited mentoring of junior compositors may also be involved.

Duties and Responsibilities will include:
• Break scenes down into distinct visual components (such as ambient occlusion, diffuse, specular, reflections, etc.), output render layers for those components, and composite together the multiple rendered layers

• Perform visual and analytical problem solving in both 3 dimensional and 2 dimensional space
• Work with a production team and visual effects supervisor to create the desired look for environments and characters that may reflect any of a wide variety of styles

Skills:
• A good eye for lighting, detail and overall composition.
• A strong understanding of how things should look and feel given specific artistic direction or reference
• Understanding of practical movie set lighting and ability to incorporate and match those lighting setups in computer graphics
• Extensive experience compositing with Fusion is essential
• Experience with mental ray a plus
• Experience with traditional drawing, painting, photography, and/or color theory a plus
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills are required
• A creative problem solver who is organized and critical of his or her own work.
• A history of consistent high-end aesthetic and technical execution
• Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4 years of experience in a production environment using Fusion.

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Prime Focus VFX is an equal opportunity employer.
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