HIRING now for Roland Emmerich's "2012" in our LOS ANGELES office:

CG Supervisors
Compositing Supervisor
Senior Effects TD's
Junior Effects TD's

Matte Painter
Generalist Technical Director 
Senior Compositor
Junior Compositor
Environmental Modelor
Tech Animators
Pipeline Developer
Systems Administrator
I/O Coordinators
Render Wrangler

To apply for any of our open positions, please submit a cover letter and resume with a link to your online website/portfolio to :
jobs_la (at) scanlinevfx.com

Or mail us a hard copy of your cover letter and resume, and your demo reel (DVD preferred) with a reel breakdown/shot list to:
Recruiting Department
RE: (please specify which position you are applying for)
SCANLINE VFX 
12950 Culver Blvd.
Marina Del Rey, CA 90066

We are unable to return materials, so please don't submit originals. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

Do you have skill and passion, but don't see a job that fits your qualifications?  Send in your reel and show us what you can do.





COMPUTER GRAPHICS SUPERVISOR

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Education, Experience and Skills Required:


 


COMPOSITING SUPERVISOR

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Works directly with the VFX Supervisor to determine and advise technical solutions; Directs and supervises compositing artists in the completion of final shots.

  • Advises production department on compositor assignments, scheduling, dailies workflow and standards

  • Responsible for compositing templates and standards, compositing workflow, organization, and general methodology, shot continuity, grain continuity, and compositing quality control

  • Responsible for setting up the color pipeline

  • Will be expected to spot check individual comps of other artists and evaluate quality and efficiency of teams work

  • May also fill the role of Lead Compositor

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • At least 5 years live action visual effects compositing experience

  • Excellent technical knowledge of all aspects of Color pipelines (log/linear/srgb/film-look-ups etc.)

  • After Effects knowledge required

  • Shake, Nuke, Digital Fusion all a big plus

  • Experience with Shake scripting or similar techniques a plus

  • Experience working in both Linux and Windows environment a plus

  • Experience with Render Queue Managers a plus

  • Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to multitask, be a good team leader, motivator, and, when necessary, disciplinarian

  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines


 

SENIOR EFFECTS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • At least 4-5 years technical direction experience or examples demonstrating equivalent

  • Must have completed multiple, complex FX shots on a feature VFX film.

  • Education in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering is preferred a big plus but not essential

  • Excellent understanding of real world phenomena, composition, physical motion, weight, balance, texture and form

  • Thorough knowledge of both 2D and 3D computer graphics techniques

  • Thorough understanding of the CG pipeline

  • Scripting and shading experience a plus

  • Ability to problem solve and predict potential problems with assigned tasks.

  • Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to multitask

  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines




JUNIOR EFFECTS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Will work closely with the Senior FX TD’s to use pre-defined set-ups and apply them to shots.

  • Will be trained to work in Flowline, our Academy Award winning, proprietary simulation software.

  • Great opportunity to be mentored by Senior FX TD’s and grow to higher level position

  • Work on complex visual effects animation problems such as realistic fluids, fire (smoke, etc.), debris, cloth and hair

  • Big pluses are experience in one or more of the following: Voxel and SPH based Fluids Fume FX, thinking particles, particle flow, and Havok.

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • 1 year or less technical direction experience in feature films or examples demonstrating equivalent

  • Willing to consider candidates with experience in Games and Commercials as well as recent graduates.

  • Education in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering a big plus but not essential

  • Strong knowledge of both 2D and 3D computer graphics techniques

  • Basic understanding of the CG pipeline

  • Scripting and shading experience a plus

  • Compositing experience a plus

  • Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to multitask

  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines


MATTE PAINTER

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • Minimum 3 year matte painting experience in a production environment

  • Experience with advanced matte painting techniques including, appropriate layering, scene management and reference gathering 

  • Excellent skills in Photoshop and BodyPaint 3D, open to other programs

  • Good knowledge of the basic principles of 2D texture projections in 3ds Max, Maya or similar 3D application

  • Technical experience in photography or lighting with an emphasis on color and composition

  • UV mapping workflow experience a plus

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

  • Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to multitask

  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines




GENERALIST TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • At least 2 years feature film experience or examples demonstrating equivalent

  • Proficiency with Max and basic Max script knowledge.

  • Experience with Vray a plus

  • Proven look development skills

  • Strong sense of composition, light and color

  • Ability to problem solve and predict potential problems with assigned tasks

  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team, and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines

  • Texture coordinate application, shader creation and basic compositing experience a plus



SENIOR COMPOSITOR

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • At least 3 years live action visual effects compositing experience

  • Should possess a keen eye for color and color matching

  • Experience with complex matte extractions and motion tracking

  • Should have strong aptitude for technical workflow challenges such as directory structure, file formats, naming conventions, scripts, automation tools, automated dailies, etc.

  • Should have high level knowledge of compositing workflow and the compositing application interface

  • Shake, Nuke and After Effects a plus

  • Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to multitask

  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines



 

JUNIOR COMPOSITOR

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • 1 year related work experience, or recent graduates considered

  • Knowledge of the compositing application interface.

  • Technical experience in photography or lighting with an emphasis on color and composition.

  • Must have good to excellent knowledge of After Effects

  • Shake, Nuke or Digital Fusion depending on needs of production.

  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines


 

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELOR

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • CG experience constructing polygon models and UV mapping skills

  • Experience in creating blend shapes and a familiarity with hard surface rigging

  • Expertise in organic poly modeling using Maya, Max, etc.

  • Feature film experience strongly preferred

  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines.




TECHNICAL ANIMATOR

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Believable animations of large-scale objects interacting w/ simulations and camera movements, as well as debris animation

  • Designing an animated environment that includes backgrounds, sets and objects

  • Pipeline planning, execution, and support

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • At least 2 years of experience in VFX animation

  • Expert knowledge of 3DS Max a plus.

  • Good technical knowledge of any of the major 3d packages (Maya, Max, XSI, etc.) is required

  • Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to multitask

  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines



PIPELINE DEVELOPER 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Works with the Head of Technology to architect and develop production tools and supporting modules in a Max and/or Mel scripting language environment.  Primary responsibilities include automating the use of Flowline, our proprietary, Academy Award-winning simulation software -- connecting it to our asset management system and creating an optimized workflow according to long-term and production-specific needs.

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • Design, build, and maintain software using a variety of languages, tools, and 3rd-party packages

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent

  • Excellent Max and/or Mel scripting experience in a Windows environment

  • Additional C++ experience a plus as well as basic knowledge of various 3D packages API’s

  • Knowledge of relational database design and implementation also a plus

  • Experience automating complex processes of scenes that consist of a large number of assets. 

  • Development experience with digital media formats, media viewers and media architectures as related to the computer animation and/or visual effects production.

  • Familiarity with computer graphics application software, e.g. Maya, Shake, 3ds Max, etc.

  • Understanding and experience with client-server and other multi-tiered system environments.

  • Must have prior VFX production experience with in depth understanding workflow from start to finish including but not limited to production and delivery deadlines.

  • Excellence in problem solving and documentation skills.

  • Must be able to work well with a wide range of personality types.

  • Must be detail oriented, organized, and able to handle a variety of tasks in an efficient manner.


 

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

The Systems Administrator builds infrastructure solutions to Scanline VFX’s technology needs in a variety of areas, including: storage networking; physical networking; render farm management; name services; desktop support; and desktop build and software management.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • Maintaining and extending a multiple thousand core and multiple hundred terabyte production environment

  • Minimum 2-4 years in related roll
  • BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other technical field
  • Experience administrating multiple operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS and Unix
  • Experience with distributed filesystems like Lustre, Isilon, etc., a plus
  • Experience with one or more administrative scripting languages (Perl, Python, Bash, etc.)
  • Familiarity with networking and distributed computing, including network file systems, routing and subnetting
  • Fluency with common network protocols and their implementations and management: DNS, NFS, directory services, SSH/SSL and security protocols
  • Experience with performance analysis and tuning of operating systems and networks
  • Programming experience in a procedural or functional language a plus
  • Some knowledge of 2D & 3D graphics tools, (e.g. After Effects, 3ds Max, Maya, etc.) a plus
  • Strong scientific troubleshooting & debugging skills
  • Some flexibility in work hours. The Technology Team is committed to working at a sustainable pace, but occasional real crises do arise
  • Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to multitask
  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines


 

I/O Technical Coordinator

This position will provide IO support for one or more high-profile feature projects at Scanline VFX.  The IO Technical Coordinator will work under the supervision of the VFX Producer and is responsible for preparing all appropriate digital assets inbound to production and outbound to vendors.  Individuals applying for this position should have a high attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and a flexible working schedule.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Assists in all sending and receiving of digital assets for the project

  • Initiates the editorial pipeline from the client to the artist and involves thorough tracking and documentation

  • Pre-processing of digital assets in compliance with the show’s technical pipeline specification. This could include creating dailies, QT’s, low-res proxies, applying specialized LUTs, format conversions, naming conventions, protocol.

  • Frequent communication with appropriate show personnel throughout the duration of the project regarding the status of sent and received assets

  • Effective communication with Client side counterpart

Education, Experience, and Skills Required:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent preferred

  • Previous experience in similar role handling large-scale IO projects within a visual effects studio preferred

  • Excellent working knowledge of Graphical FTP Clients.

  • Experience editing with Avid, Final Pro or some other editing software.

  • Understanding and experience with handling EDL required

  • Basic experience with After Effects, / Shake, / Nuke, / and/or Fusion a plus

  • Experience with Dailies system like Nucoda a plus

  • Strong Knowledge of color space required

  • Strong organizational and communication skills, as well as a high attention to detail

  • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines


  RENDER WRANGLER
 
The Render Wrangler is responsible for maintaining maximum render farm utilization and throughput.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Prioritize show demands under changing conditions and production deadlines

  • Manage multiple thousand CPU’s that are simulating rendering high-end VFX data

  • Ensure that overnight renders are given correct resources based on relative priorities

  • Diagnose farm problems and assist with the debugging of common technical issues

  • Document common errors and assist artists with basic technical fixes

  • Respond swiftly to unexpected events, taking appropriate corrective action and notifying affected producers and artists

  • Perform comprehensive quality-checks on dailies movies

Education, Experience and Skills Required:

  • 1 year experience in a related role

  • BA or BS degree in Computer Technology/Artistry or related field

  • Experience with Windows or Unix networks, in a support, maintenance, or admin capacity

  • Experience in film, VFX, or game graphics production environments

  • Some knowledge of 2D & 3D graphics tools, e.g. After Effects, 3D Studio Max, Maya, etc. a plus

  • Shell scripting & basic programming skills a plus

  • Excellent communication and organization skills

  • Strong troubleshooting & debugging skills

  • Ability to multitask, staying on course despite interruptions

  • Flexibile schedule a necessity, as shifts have staggered starts to ensure 24 hour coverage.

  • There occasionally may be weekend work

  • Ability to work independently (key for evening shifts) and in group settings



To apply for any of our open positions, please submit a cover letter and resume with a link to your online website/portfolio to :
jobs_la (at) scanlinevfx.com

Or mail us a hard copy of your cover letter and resume, and your demo reel (DVD preferred) with a reel breakdown/shot list to:
Recruiting Department
RE: (please specify which position you are applying for)
SCANLINE VFX 
12950 Culver Blvd.
Marina Del Rey, CA 90066

We are unable to return materials, so please don't submit originals. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

Do you have skill and passion, but don't see a job that fits your qualifications?  Send in your reel and show us what you can do.


HIRING now for international and national feature films including "2012" in our MUNICH office:


Crowd TDs (Massive)
Generalist TDs (Vray and/or Renderman)

Shading Artists (3dsmax/Vray or Renderman)

Modeling Artists (Maya and/or 3dsmax)

2D Supervisor (Shake)
3D Supervisor (3dsmax)
3D Generalists (3dsmax)
Senior Compositing Artists (Shake)
FX Artists (3dsmax, simulation tools)Project I/O
Intern for Production Management / Line Producing


If there is no position available that fits your qualifications? Please feel free to
submit an unsolicited application.


When applying, please follow our submission tips & guidelines:

A reel is not required, but if you have one, please follow the submission guidelines.
However, if you have any research projects or images you would like to share with
us, please submit them on a "reel".

All artist submissions MUST contain the following:

  1. Cover Letter which states the position you are applying for and your availability
  2. Resume
  3. Demo Reel and/or Portfolio (if applicable to the position)
  4. Demo Reel and/or Portfolio Breakdown which describes your specific
    contributions to the work.

Guidelines for reels:

  • Reels should be on DVD (we prefer PAL instead of NTSC)
  • Reels should be clearly labeled with your name and contact information
  • The length of your reel should be limited to 5 minutes and consist of the
    work you're most proud of beginning with your most recent work
  • Please include a credit list explaining what you did on your reel and what
    software (if applicable) was used to achieve the effects
  • Demo reels should be well edited and concise (less than 5 minutes).
  • Please include all traditional work (life drawings, pencil tests, etc.) either
    on your reel or with your portfolio.

We look forward to receiving your application in GERMAN or English. Please mail to: 

ScanlineVFX GmbH
Cordula Schindler
Human Resources
Bavariafilmplatz 7

82031 Gruenwald
Germany

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact Cordula Schindler
email: jobs_muc (at) scanlinevfx.com or +49 (0)89 6498470 
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