Freelance Senior Paint Artist

As a Senior Paint artist, you will be responsible for delivering high quality shots in a quick and efficient manner. You will be working closely with Leads, Supervisors, and Compositors to deliver outstanding VFX. You should have a great eye for composition and color and be passionate about delivering the best-looking shots possible. We are expecting you to have a thorough knowledge of Nuke and Silhouette.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Paint out wires, rigs, crew, mocap people, tracking markers and any other unwanted items from plates, using various paint techniques both procedural and frame by frame.
• Integrate the generated patches or clean plates seamlessly to the plates matching color, saturation, black and white points, motion blur, defocus etc.
• Good Understanding of grain management
• Able to deal with paint artefacts, sharpness and color issues
• 2D Tracking and planar tracking in both Silhouette and Nuke
• Able to work with Camera and UV Projections in Nuke for procedural paint outs
• Able to handle complex tasks such as multilayer projection character recreation basic element comping
• Able to break shots down into individual components with little supervision
• Take ownership and responsibility of the paint task and proactively troubleshoot potential issues
• Coordinate with other artist on same shot by taking ownership of the shot
• Understand feedback given by lead or supervisors
• Mentor and share knowledge with junior artist