About the job
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Key Responsibilities
- Create high-quality models and UVs for use in production; implement improvements/changes based on review feedback and Supervisor/Lead direction
- Design and implement high level conceptual to practical modeling
- Proactively recommend ongoing pipeline improvements
- Identify potential issues, provide solutions, and escalate as needed
- Maintain a positive relationship with all stakeholder departments
- Work within the defined pipeline
- Ensure continuity and support other asset departments such as Texture, Surfacing/Lookdev, Generalist, and Rigging
Qualifications
- Minimum three (3) years of VFX experience modeling photorealistic assets for live-action feature films
- Expert in Maya; could teach a class on how to use it and troubleshoot
- Excellent technical troubleshooting skills and problem-solving abilities
- Demonstrated ability to take design from ambiguous to full design implementation
- Strong understanding of rigging process and displacement map workflow
- Eye for detail and able to QA own work to ensure the highest quality before handing off assets
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills; experience working under tight deadlines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Team player who is able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Excellent knowledge of Zbrush and/or Mudbox
- Experience working on hard surface and organic modeling is a plus
- Mari and Substance Painter knowledge is a plus
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
About The Company
Scanline VFX is an award-winning, global leader in the visual effects industry with studios in 7 core locations including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich, Seoul, Stuttgart, and Vancouver. From humble beginnings over 30 years ago, we’ve grown to a team of over 1,200 made up of diverse nationalities from around the world. We believe in the power of storytelling and are committed to helping filmmakers realize their artistic vision. Underpinned by a commitment to innovation, collaboration and long-standing partnerships, we continue to develop innovative tools, techniques and technologies, to offer filmmakers the ultimate in creative freedom. Eyeline Studios, Scanline’s virtual production division, is rethinking the future of real-time filmmaking by providing content creators with unmatched flexibility.
Netflix’s investment in Scanline’s pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows Scanline to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in VFX. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, Scanline continues to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients outside of Netflix.
Established in 1989 in Munich, Scanline became well-known for our ability to create photorealistic natural phenomena such as fire, smoke and water, having developed our proprietary fluid simulation software, Flowline. Scanline was the sole developer of Flowline and in 2008, and was the recipient of a Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award® for the software.
