ILM’s Paint & Roto department is one of ILMs most unique departments, where we aim to provide artists with long, creative careers. This department covers a wide range of work from creating digital articulate mattes and performing plate clean-up, modifying and removing isolated elements for digitally composited sequences, painting comps before film-out to resolve last minute problems and maintaining up to date knowledge of rotoscoping and how to make shapes animate.

Requirements and responsibilities:

• An understanding of 2D motion and animation for both rotoscoping and organic hand painting.
• Breaking down and rebuilding various segments within a plate through the creation and implementation of self-made elements.
• General plate prep, wire and target removal, clean plate projections, and dynamic recreation through frame by frame hand paint.
• A strong eye for colour, lighting, perspective, lens and grain structure, and all round aesthetic skills in judging photo-realism.
• 2D tracking and the ability to utilize multipoint tracks and planar trackers.
• Knowledge of basic compositing techniques, including de-graining and re-graining, keying, and basic color correcting.

Education / Experience:

• Prior experience in basic 2D paint tasks in Silhouette or other related software.
• Prior experience with Nuke or similar compositing packages.
• Prior experience with 2D image processing softwares such as Photoshop, Krita, or Gimp.
• Prior experience with 3D Animation tools such as Maya.
• Knowledge and interest in photography and digital manipulation.
• Artistic knowledge of composition and color.
• Strong interest in film and cinematography.

Required Skills / Competencies:

• Ability to work efficiently and under tight deadlines within a production environment
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn new tools, techniques, and software
• Strong proactive communicator and open to constructive feedback
• Basic knowledge of linux based operating system
• Basic knowledge of VFX terminology
• High attention to detail and Aesthetics