Senior CG Environment Look Development Artist
All applicants must be residents of British Columbia, Canada.
Must be legally entitled to work in Canada ie. Citizen, PR, Open Work Permit.
At this time, we’re pleased to offer this role as an option to work from home OR
work from our Vancouver studio in the beautiful Gastown area, close to the
Waterfront Station in Downtown. (Remote is not available outside of BC; there is
no hybrid)
About Zoic
Zoic Studios is a Visual Effects company that specializes in high end visual
effects for television, film, and advertising. Our mantra is Visual Evolution -
we focus on every part of the process, from the final picture to the pipeline
used to create them.
Are you looking for your next creative and technical challenge? Come join our
team!
Why Join Zoic?
- We are an Artist owned and operated VFX studio.
- We love what we do and always stay curious about new technology and
techniques.
- We respect work/life balance in a hectic industry.
- We work with a team from all walks of life and backgrounds.
We are excited to share an incredible stop-motion animated feature project that
promises creativity, collaboration, and a fantastic chance to showcase your
skills!
Summary of Position
The Sr CG Environment Look Development Artist is responsible for generating
textures and surfaces in the production of high quality, accurate, photo-real,
and stylized CG environment assets.
Job Functions
- Digitally create and implement CG assets for stop motion visual effects,
ensuring color and surfacing of CG assets reflect the vision and requirements
of the given project.
- Create and refine materials to achieve the final look of environment assets
and terrain, and build custom looks and materials for specialty assets.
- Build and maintain show shading networks, master materials, and templates to
support CG artists with final look development.
- Work within a physically-based shading context, balancing and validating
material responses across multiple assets.
- Work alongside the Lead CG Look Dev Artist to ensure that assets and terrains
and shots meet show standards.
- Work with the Environments team to address supervisors’ and directors’
shading notes and provide training, as needed.
- Support workflows for publishing and moving data between assets and
lighting.
- Troubleshoot production problems, such as common rendering and lighting
technical issues, and create methods to minimize their impact.
- Assist in the development of new tools and techniques to improve the asset
development process.
Qualifications
- 5+ years' experience in live-action or photoreal feature film production.
- Advanced Katana experience.
- Proficient in Renderman (or equivalent), Mari, and Substance Painter and
Designer.
- Experience working in a USD pipeline.
- Proficient Look Development, R&D, and lighting skills from both an artistic
and technical perspective.
- Strong aesthetic sense and keen eye for detail.
- Technical understanding of color space.
- Efficient UV layout experience using a UDIM workflow.
- Basic compositing skills in Nuke.
- Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills to balance
priorities under the pressure of a deadline-driven production.
- Ability to take direction and implement feedback.
- Basic understanding of plate and image-based lighting, as well as full CG
lighting, preferred.
- Basic understanding of multi-pass rendering and 3D scene layout, preferred.
- Houdini, Maya, and Zbrush knowledge, a plus.
Additional information
- British Columbia Employees Pay Range: $45 - $65 (The actual base salary
offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation,
the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of
relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other
professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location of the position)
- Zoic does not cover relocation costs.
- Any and all WFH positions require the candidate to have a reliable internet
connection via ethernet and work on Pacific Standard Time.
- This job description contains the basic requirements for the position and is
NOT intended to be a complete list of responsibilities; other duties may be
assigned.
- Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we regret that only those
selected to interview will be contacted.
