Previs Supervisor
6 days ago
About the Role:
As our first Previs Supervisor in Sydney, you will be responsible for collaborating closely with Directors, VFX Supervisors, and other key creative leadership to design and deliver sequences ensuring their vision is met through dynamic camera movement, animation, composition, staging, lighting, and editing across multiple projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Producer and Production Management team to bid and deliver previs on time and on budget across all projects.
- Partner with Talent Management to mentor, train, and support Previs Artists on the team; motivate and provide feedback to Artists; understand how to develop Artists' abilities; set goals and deadlines for the team.
- Build a Previs team in Sydney, working with recruitment to help grow your team.
- Main Focus Areas:
- Storyboarding: Development of either hand-drawn or Maya-based storyboards.
- Asset Dev: Modeling, texturing, shading of assets.
- Set Dressing: Preparation of environments for animation and layout.
- Rigging: Development of in-shot pipeline-compatible rig solutions.
- Animation & Layout: Designing and animating shots over an entire sequence.
- Lighting & Rendering: Preparation of low-tech, fast-render aesthetic solutions.
- Tool Dev: Creation of tools to assist the Previs team.
- Editing: Compiling of sequences & sound design within Adobe Premiere.
- Compositing: Compositing abilities to facilitate a post-process look dev pass.
- Partner with technology and CG departments to streamline workflow and pipeline.
- Troubleshoot assets and shots, continually looking for and suggesting improvements to increase overall efficiency and productivity.
- Maintain or exceed consistent levels of productivity while meeting deadlines and producing high-quality work.
- Demonstrate flexibility with iterative processes.
About You:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Visualization, or a Computer Animation required.
- 5+ years of leadership experience in visual effects film.
- 7+ years of experience in visual effects film.
- Extensive experience in visual effects for film, including recent management experience.
- Experience in animation, Previs, and/or layout.
- Well-versed in film grammar, composition, and editorial decisions.
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with Linux and Maya.
- A reel demonstrating strong creative and technical ability in photo-realistic 3D with a focus on animation, Previs, or layout; basic competency in modeling, texturing, lighting, camera, layout, compositing, and rendering.
- Nice to have:
- Basic knowledge of Nuke, Mari, Arnold, V-Ray, ZBrush, and Photoshop.
- Experience in modeling, rigging, texturing, and lighting.
About Us:
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is the leading effects facility in the world, serving the motion picture, commercial production, and attraction industries. Founded in 1975 by George Lucas, ILM has created visual effects for over 325 feature films and has played a key role in seven of the top 10 worldwide box-office hits of all time. ILM has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film.
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family.
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