Cinematic Director F/H/X

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.)