Job Highlights:

• Compensation: Competitive salary ($25-$30/Hour)
• Company: Disney
• Position: Part-time Remote Set Extension Artist
• Start Date: Immediate openings available
• Location: Remote (Olympia, USA)

Description:

Responsibilities:

• Execute layered, pre-lit, view-dependent artworks flawlessly integrated with fully CG environments
• Collaborate with the lighting team and Production Designers to elaborate and expand the environments carefully for the scenes we are creating
• Create foundations, scenes, and environments in a 3D world using digital painting and delivering projects like Maya, Photoshop, Nuke, Houdini, Clarisse, and more
• Extrapolate artistic direction: plan, building style, lighting, and illustrations, which adhere to the Production Designers' overall vision
• Support the technical aspects of the work created
• Work together with the Art Department, Layout, Animation, Visual Effects, and Lighting teams
• Decipher concept art and color keys into adapted, yet sensible final picture
• Plan environment for a shot given extrapolation of more summarized concept art
• Arrange entire shot extension without prior knowledge
• Displaying depending on the situation, particularly complex landscape aging
• Surface and shader aging depending on the situation
• Lighting of self-produced 3D assets as well as existing show assets using Dlight, Maya, and Hyperion
• Production of fully accepted high-resolution HDR digital matte paintings
• Making of fully composited set extension in Nuke using 3D projections, creative compositing, and after-production motion blur and DOF
• Take artistic direction from various sources and collaborate with multiple departments to achieve the final shot
• Deliver final frames to the lighting department

Requirements:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• Proficient experience required, motion experience preferred
• High skill level in painting, piece, perspective, and color theory
• Grasps a 2.5D workflow with multiple projection cameras with extensive knowledge of both 2D and 3D workflows and perspectives
• Great creative abilities with an eagerness to learn new workflows
• Broad knowledge of Macintosh OSX and Linux and software like Photoshop, Maya, Nuke, and other renderers
• Ability to work iteratively in a fluid and fast-paced environment, take direction effectively, and participate as a member of a highly collaborative team
• Ideal candidates would have secondary art skills or come from a generalist background
• Broad knowledge of real lighting and materials
• Ideal foundation in custom drawing and painting
• A broad understanding of shot and painting arrangement, with ideal knowledge of cinematography
• Strong understanding of photography and its terminology
• Ability to tackle complex issues in a very creative manner

How to Apply:

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