Compositing Department Lead

2 weeks ago


North Lakes, Australia Pixel Zoo Pty Ltd Full time

**Compositing Department Lead**

We are currently on the lookout for a **Compositing Department Lead** to join the Pixel Zoo team This position will be based at our studio in North Lakes (Brisbane Northern Suburb).

Come join us at Queenslands largest full service animation studio. If working in a creative and supportive team environment with major brands such as Rainbow High, LOL Surprise, Baby Alive and many others peaks your interest - let us know.

Expected Tasks Include:

- Working closely with Directors, other team leads and other artists to ensure content is created as expected and to a high standard.
- Review and improve organisational effectiveness by developing processes, overseeing employees, establishing a highly motivational work environment and creating innovative approaches to improvement.
- Implement changes as directed and in accordance with the production schedule
- Mentor compositing artists in creative/technical procedures and workflows.
- Attend reviews with the Supervisors/Directors, supporting and giving advice to compositing artists as needed.
- Oversee the daily activities and capabilities of the compositing team
- Partner with management to guide artists overall professional development, providing performance feedback, mentoring, assist with resolving performance issues and maintaining positive morale amongst the team.
- Foster and enable cross departmental communication and collaborative environments
- Work with production team to identify appropriate staffing levels and needs
- Assisting with recruitment and onboarding tasks
- Improve staff retention rates
- Liaising and effectively communicating with general management to ensure resources are allocated appropriately and flagging any issues quickly
- Liaise between production managers and Director to ensure crew management is utilized to its fullest potential.
- Handle performance, productivity, attendance and timekeeping in tandem with team leaders. Reporting matters to HR and Management when needed.
- Where necessary, you will assist in additional production tasks and assist others as required
- You will ensure all work follows studio policies and guidelines

Essential Skills:

- Ability to lead a team, with good leadership skills and to delegate and prioritise work accordingly
- Strong communication skills and the ability to liaise with other department leads
- 5+ years experience in a production pipeline
- Extensive experience lighting and rendering shots within Maya using render engines such as Redshift, Arnold or VRay (Redshift preferred)
- Experience in Adobe After Effects and Premier
- Experience working on an animation series production
- Good troubleshooting skills and the ability to work independently to identify and resolve issues with rendering shots

Bonus Points for:

- Experience with Deadline render farm software
- Experience with additional Maya FX plugins such as Yeti
- Experience with RedGiant fx plugins and other industry standard plugins in Adobe AfterEffects

This position is based at our North Lakes Studio where public transport is easily available.

Salary offered will be dependent on experience.

So join us here at the Zoo and you can enjoy an informal work and pet friendly environment where we hold regular company and team events to foster ongoing connections with others.

If you believe you are a good fit for Pixel Zoo and we are a good fit for you let us know

If you have any questions about the position or Pixel Zoo, please contact us.

**Salary**: $75,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- North Lakes, QLD 4509: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- relevant: 5 years (required)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)

Work Location: One location

Expected Start Date: 13/03/2023


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