Cinematic Director F/H/X

3 Weeks ago • All levels • Videography

Job Summary

Job Description

DON’T NOD is seeking a Cinematic Director to lead the creation of cinematic content for an Action-RPG project. The role involves directing in-game cinematics, supervising the cinematic team, defining technical and artistic approaches, and validating final cinematics. Key tasks include defining the game's cinematographic vision, designing storyboards, directing motion capture, and ensuring quality and consistency with gameplay. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership, game directing experience, and knowledge of game engines like Unreal Engine 5.
Must have:
  • Directing in-game cinematics
  • Supervising and coaching the cinematic team
  • Defining technical and artistic means for cinematic creation
  • Validating cinematics
  • Defining the cinematographic vision of the game
  • Designing and supervising cinematics (storyboard, staging, animation)
  • Ensuring consistency between cinematics and gameplay
  • Directing staging and motion capture shoots
  • Supervising and checking editing and retouches
  • Writing guidelines and pipelines for project teams
  • Ensuring quality, deadlines, and budget adherence
  • Supervising the Camera Artist team
Perks:
  • Spacious and bright HQE certified premises in Paris
  • Buildings within Parc du Pont de Flandre (12,000m2 green spaces)
  • Car and motorcycle parking
  • 2 inter-company restaurants
  • Gym
  • Snack area
  • Playbox game room (consoles, books, board games)
  • Free access meeting rooms and Bubbles
  • Free hot drinks and fruits
  • CSE offers (reduced cinema tickets, gift vouchers, goodies)

Job Details

DON’T NOD is looking for a Cinematic Director F/H/X to strengthen our team on an Action-RPG project.

Reporting to the Executive Producer, your role will be to lead the creation of cinematic content for our game.

Responsibilities:

  • Directing in-game cinematics
  • Supervision and coaching of the cinematic team
  • Defining technical and artistic means for the creation and shooting of cinematic content
  • Validation of cinematics

Tasks:

  • Defining the cinematographic vision of the game, in collaboration with the project's creative direction
  • Designing and supervising cinematics: storyboard, staging, animation (…)
  • Ensuring consistency between cinematics and gameplay
  • Directing staging and motion capture shoots
  • Supervising and checking editing and retouches
  • Writing guidelines and pipelines to help project teams
  • Ensuring the quality of deliverables, adherence to deadlines and budget
  • Supervising the Camera Artist team: leading and organizing their activity, individual support

Qualifications

  • Experience as a director in video games: staging, storyboarding, actor direction, editing and directing techniques, narrative logic
  • Leadership: decision-making, ability to argue, formulating feedback and recommendations, ability to unite and build a relationship of trust with teams, team supervision and support
  • Knowledge of a game engine, ideally Unreal Engine 5
  • Communication, listening and teamwork, to collaborate effectively with all trades involved in the project
  • Adaptability and quick understanding of team challenges and constraints, solution-oriented

Additional Information

DON’T NOD offers an ideal environment not only for working but also for sharing and creating:

A pleasant working environment:

  • Spacious and bright premises, HQE (high environmental quality) certified, based in Paris
  • Buildings located within the Parc du Pont de Flandre: 12,000m2 domain of green spaces, including a car and motorcycle parking, 2 inter-company restaurants, a gym, snack area and many other services.
  • “Playbox” game room including game consoles, books and board games
  • Free access meeting rooms and Bubbles
  • Free hot drinks and fruits

Many social benefits:

  • CSE offers (reduced cinema tickets, gift vouchers, goodies, etc.)

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About The Company

DON’T NOD is an independent publisher and developer, based in Paris and Montreal, creating original narrative games in the adventure (Life is Strange, Tell Me Why, Twin Mirror), RPG (Vampyr), and action (Remember Me) genres. The studio is internationally renowned for unique narrative experiences with engaging stories and characters, and has worked with industry leading publishers: Square Enix, Microsoft, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Focus Entertainment, and Capcom. DON’T NOD creates and publishes its own IPs developed in-house, as well as using its knowledge and experience to collaborate with third-party developers whose editorial visions parallel the company’s own.


In 2020, DON’T NOD expanded internationally by creating its first branch in Montreal.


At DON’T NOD Montreal, we celebrate diversity and inclusivity within our games as well as our teams. We commit to equal opportunities and non-discrimination in our hiring process. We are respectful of the principles of equal employment opportunities, and that is why we encourage women, people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, First Nations people, people living with a disability, visible minorities, as well as any other person who can contribute to the diversity of our studio to apply for our positions.

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