Cg Supervisor

2 days ago

Sydney, Australia Blockhead VFX Full time

Blockhead is looking to fill a CG Supervisor role out of our **Sydney studio** and join our growing team. Working closely with our Auckland based CG Supervisor, Vfx supervisors and Head of 2D you will help develop the CG department both creatively and technically.

We value work/life balance and getting home for our evenings and weekends. We are open to flexible working conditions and strongly believe creativity comes from human diversity.

The CG Supervisor oversees the workflow, and overall creative success of the 3D department, including personally working on shots and troubleshooting technical issues on a regular basis. The CG Supervisor represents the 3D team to a diverse group of internal and external clients, helping manage the team’s workload, and priorities.

**CG Supervisor Duties**:

- Partner with Production to ensure department resources are balanced across all projects.
- Monitor workload and assignments across the 3D team, balancing the volume of work with artists’ creative strengths to provide clients with the best possible result.
- Coordinate with Production teams to manage artists and ensure a consistently high quality of work from the department.
- Advise department supervisors on best practices and participate in breaking down and bidding 3D work for projects.
- Suggest efficient techniques to keep bids competitive and minimise unnecessary production needs and labour.
- Work on shots personally, while maintaining sufficient bandwidth for the other duties of the role. Focus on covering other team members, and tackling short but challenging projects.
- Proactively anticipate issues with existing workflow, technology and staffing, and present solutions to management with sufficient time for action to be taken.
- Cultivate a team-oriented approach across the department and company as a whole. Address any interpersonal conflicts promptly and in a collaborative manner.
- Establish and advise on priorities for the 3D render farm and Render Wrangler.
- In collaboration with studio leadership, participate in hiring, onboarding and training.
- Prepare and document workflows and best practices, organising them to be readily accessible to staff.
- Communicate a consistent and compelling picture of the company’s position as a world-class VFX.

**Ideal Skills**:

- 10+ years in 3D; comfortable leading CG Generalist teams as well as artists specialising in all areas of 3D.
- Highly proficient in Maya and or Houdini.
- Basic familiarity with compositing workflows and tools.
- Strong understanding of lighting principles, colour theory, and latest techniques in 3D computer graphics.
- Role model in conflict resolution and ability to provide insight into complex situations for their team.
- Highly organised individual who enjoys the creative process and managing a team.

**About Us**

Blockhead is one of the world’s leading VFX studios with bases in Sydney and Auckland. Throughout its 13-year history, Blockhead has been at the forefront of creating engaging stories using the latest in movie and gaming technology. Whether a Netflix blockbuster movie, an Amazon TV Series, or one of the biggest brands in the world, Blockhead has created talking creatures, missions to space, recreated historical events, and simulated alternate realities.

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