Lead Compositor

Description

About us

Nerd Corps Entertainment, established in 2002, is one of North America’s largest privately owned animation studios, boasting a diverse portfolio of award-winning original properties such as Slugterra, League of Super Evil, Storm Hawks and Rated A for Awesome. With six shows in production, there is always a genre or character to keep you interested and challenged. But we’re more than just an animation studio. Our 400 creatives build stories, worlds, and experiences for kids that cut across platforms from television to online, games, toys, mobile—wherever kids are spending time. We handle all stages of our process in-house, from the IP creation and development to post-production, finance, sales and distribution, licensing and consumer products, and interactive development, making us a rarity in the industry. Our studio near Vancouver’s trendy Commercial Drive is a vibrant mixture of rookies and veterans, where those fresh out of college can continue learning from mid-career and senior artists, and where every level of experience can make the most of their talent on some of the best kids shows and games in the world.

Leo, Gemini, Emmy…been there, won that.

Come work for an award-winning studio and make cartoons, not war.

Department: VFX

Location: Vancouver

About the position

As the lead compositor you will work in collaboration with the pipeline and VFX supervisors and play an integral role in the development and implementation of compositing as our studio migrates from XSI to Nuke. You will work with the studio’s supervisors and our software team to perfect and compose the lighting and render workflow as well as guide the compositing team to deliver the best looking shows.

Responsibilities

• Work in collaboration with the VFX supervisor, series directors and lead compositors
• Interface with other departments to ensure the seamless combination of work from other disciplines
• Assist with training and mentorship of compositors
• Responsible for the quality of work of the team as a whole
• Composite shots to a finished standard
• Develop the structure of compositing scripts in Nuke
• Balance the creative and technical aspect of each shot

Crew Management

• 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 crew
• Foster and enable cross departmental communication and collaborative environment
• Work with production team to identify appropriate staffing levels and needs
• Foster a healthy and creative work environment

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role in the animation/film/tv industry
• Excellent communication skills, organization and team awareness
• Thorough understanding of the animation production process, mainly from shading to compositing stages
• Strong knowledge of rendering and lighting in Maya
• Strong understanding of shading
• Experienced in Mentalray and/or Renderman and/or Arnold (user level)
• Basic knowledge of Python is an asset
• Artistic ability to look-dev assets and sets

THANK YOU to all those who express interest in being a part of the Nerd Corps team. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we receive, we may be unable to reply to all applicants. If we feel that you may be a good match for one of our current openings you will be contacted.