Senior Previs Artists

Description

Position Description:

The Pre-viz Artist reports to the Pre-viz Supervisor, the Pre-viz Lead, and the Assistant Production Manager. His/her first priority is to create dynamic, creative and inspiring cinematic expressions for the film that support the narrative, adhere to the Director's vision (as represented by the story reel) and works within Production assumptions.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Director and Pre-vis Supervisor to create cinematic sequences in the 3-D environment that both interpret and enhance the their unique vision for the story.

• Must be able to work from storyboards and/or create sequences from script treatments.

• Able to analyze, trouble-shoot and creatively solve cinematic problems that inevitably arise in the course of production.

• Able to pitch and effectively communicate these solutions and ideas to the Director, Pre-vis Supervisor and creative team.

• Work with the Director, the Pre-vis/Shot Prep Supervisor and the CG Supervisor to refine sequence and shot iterations until approved.

• Adhere to Pipeline protocols for the Pre-vis/Shot prep department, as established by Production Engineering.

• Identify and flag any pipeline or department work-flow problems that may arise.

• Adhere to the production schedule for the department.

• Attend department meetings with to keep up to date on story reel changes and department requirements.

• Communicate in a timely fashion with APM and Production for all inter-department issues.

• Attend all sequence reviews, launches and approvals with the Director and Production. Maintain detailed and accurate notes.

• Provide a clean, legible final file and appropriate notes to the next department (Shot-prep).

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer Science or computer animation or equivalent work experience.

• 10+ years of experience creating cinematic pre-visualizations or rough layout for CG animation, with multiple feature film experience.

• A strong interest in Previs/Layout, story telling and Stereoscopy.

• Strong knowledge of cinematic language and the fundamentals of image structure, staging, lensing and composition.

• Strong knowledge of story structure.

• Some exposure to modeling, lighting, texturing and animation is preferred.

• Demonstrated experience working in the Maya environment and solid knowledge of the basic tools of the CG Pre-vis artist.