Job Description
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:
As a Set Extension Artist at Disney, you will utilize your expertise in computer-generated imagery (CGI) and artistic skills to create immersive and engaging environments for our films and television shows. This is a unique opportunity to join our team of talented artists and contribute to the magic of Disney.
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
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