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Senior Flame Artist - Chicago
Framestore
Chicago, IL, United States
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Framestore is looking for a new staff Flame Artist to join their new office in Chicago, opening in April 2017. We are looking for someone who has a great reel demonstrating complex VFX work, shoot supervision experience and a passion to work on high end VFX and VR projects requiring a high level of finish. The Flame Artist should also have great relationships with clients.
This is a staff role and we will provide relocation and work visas for the right candidate.
Responsibilities:
• Work with clients in order to create their vision
• Support the Head of Production and Producers in bidding projects and helping the Creative Director pitch and win the 2D aspects of projects
• Attend shoots as a VFX shoot supervisor when required
• Supervise team of staff and freelance compositors (Flame and Nuke) and roto artists.
• Troubleshoot technical and management issues for the studio on projects.
• Provide visually creative and timely solutions to directors.
• Communicates with other VFX staff and departments on status of composite work.
• Able to manage time effectively and give accurate assessments of the workload and the time required to complete tasks.
• Able to provide preliminary and final color correction for the spots.
• Comfortable working in client attended sessions on finishing projects
Essential Skills:
• 5+ years experience on commercials and visual effects heavy projects using Flame.
• An understanding and commitment to providing superior service to commercials clients, both from a technical and creative point of view.
• A thorough understanding and experience in compositing computer graphics into live action.
• Proficiency in film and video broadcast standards and video and graphics formats
• Must be highly organised and have the ability to juggle several jobs at once in a highly efficient manner
• Very strong interpersonal and communication skills with both clients and staff at all levels
• Good understanding of colour space
• Photoshop experience
• Linux experience
• Backdraft experience
• Furnace and Sapphire experience
Desirable Skills:
• Experience with Nuke is a plus.
• Experience with Smoke is a plus.
• Experience with Hiero is a plus.
• Experience with Final Cut is a plus.
• Experience with Shotgun is a plus.