Matte Painting Supervisor

1 Week ago • 8 Years + • Animation

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Matte Painting Supervisor at Skydance Animation, you'll lead and inspire a team in creating photorealistic and stylized digital matte paintings and concept art for animated feature films. Responsibilities include guiding the team, ensuring quality, managing budgets, collaborating with other departments, recruiting talent, mentoring artists, and staying current with industry trends. You will act as the primary contact for the department, participating in meetings to set creative goals and ensuring technical and budgetary requirements are met. The ideal candidate possesses a strong creative and technical background with proven leadership experience in animation production.
Must have:
  • 8+ years VFX/animation experience
  • 4+ years Lead experience in animation
  • Proficiency in Photoshop, Houdini, Nuke, Blender, Maya
  • Pipeline building experience
  • Team leadership and mentorship
  • Budget management and collaboration
Good to have:
  • Spanish (oral and written)
  • Experience with Renderman

Job Details

Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.
 
While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working, Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the world’s most collaborative art form can achieve, and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio that’s doing something different.

For information on Skydance’s privacy practices, see the Skydance EU/UK Personnel Privacy Notice located at https://skydance.com/privacy-personnel/.

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As a Matte Painting Supervisor you will have to guide and inspire the team, while maintaining a smooth relationship and working in unison with other departments for the successful production of the animated feature films.

Responsibilities

    • Leads the team in creating Photo-realistic DMP’s, stylized DMP’s and concept art. 
    • Gives guidance to the team and supervises the quality of the work. 
    • Highlights cost implications of requests or changes. 
    • Helps maintain the directory structure, naming conventions and files. 
    • Interacts with other departments to troubleshoot creative and technical issues and ensures continuity and that all elements work within a sequence. 
    • Acts as the primary contact person and is responsible for the department. 
    • Actively participates in meetings to set direction and creative goals, ensuring that technical and budgetary requirements are met. 
    • Assigns the work to each team member, according to skill sets. 
    • Gives guidance to the team, supervises the quality of the work, and works closely with production to complete deadlines. 
    • Partners with HR and TA to source and recruit the best talent in the industry. 
    • Mentors potential up-and-coming artists to guide them in their career paths. 
    • Acts as a company ambassador utilizing his/her extensive network in the industry, and plays a key role in selling the studio as a first-class place of work, maintaining ongoing relationships with key industry players, contributing to Skydance’s reputation. 
    • Keeps up on current technology trends and tools (hardware and software) that best suit the production (and the company) in the development of a stronger creative technical environment. 
    • Coordinates with other departments to develop and implement solutions for the show using procedural techniques. 

Requirements

    • 8+ years in VFX or animation industries.   
    • 4+ years of experience as a Lead in the animation industry. 
    • A strong creative/technical background as a proven leader in setting direction for production and for inspiring and motivating production staff. 
    • Professional mastering in Photoshop, Houdini with Renderman, Nuke, Blender, Maya. 
    • Experience building new pipelines. 
    • Advanced English level. 
    • Spanish oral and written is desirable. 
#Animation #LI-Hybrid

Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive, and animation divisions.

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About The Company

About Skydance Media 

Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, and interactive platforms. Its feature films include Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Annihilation, LIFE, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Star Trek Beyond, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, World War Z, Star Trek Into Darkness, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jack Reacher, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and True Grit. Skydance’s upcoming film releases include Top Gun: Maverick, Gemini Man, The Old Guard, 6 Underground and the nwe untitled Terminator film. In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance Television launched in 2013. Its current slate includes Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie on Netflix, Altered Carbon on Netflix, Jack Ryan on Amazon, and Condor on AT&T Audience Network. Skydance Interactive launched in 2016 to create and publish original and IP-based virtual reality experiences and video games. Skydance Interactive recently debuted its first original title – Archangel, a story-driven VR shooter.


About Skydance Interactive

Skydance Interactive creates and publishes original and IP-based virtual reality games. The division of Skydance Media was launched in 2016 through the acquisition of The Workshop Entertainment. Skydance Interactive’s first VR offering is Archangel, launched on July 18th 2017. Skydance Interactive in 2017 partnered with Skybound Entertainment to develop a number of original virtual reality video games based on the expansive world of The Walking Dead universe. The Walking Dead VR game will be the inaugural co-developed title from both companies. The studio is located in Marina del Rey, CA. 


About Animation

In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance’s first three animated features are Luck, Split (working title), and Powerless (working title). Luck, directed by Alessandro Carloni (Kung Fu Panda 3) and written by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger, is a comedy that pulls back the curtain on the millennia-old battle between the organizations of good luck and bad luck that secretly affects our daily lives. Split, directed by Vicky Jenson (Shrek) and written by Linda Woolverton, tells the story of Elian, a teenager who comes of age using her magical powers to defend her family when the opposing forces of light and darkness threaten to divide her kingdom. Nathan Greno (Tangled) is set to direct Powerless. The studio is located in Los Angeles, CA. 

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