Paint & Roto Supervisor

1 Month ago • 8 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Paint & Roto Supervisor oversees the daily operations of the digital paint and roto team at ILM Sydney, ensuring high-quality work aligned with project creative direction. Responsibilities include assigning tasks based on team skill sets, providing artistic feedback and technical guidance, troubleshooting issues, and managing third-party vendors. The role requires strong communication, leadership, and mentoring skills, with a focus on hitting targets and proactively suggesting improvements. The Supervisor works closely with production and compositing teams, contributes to shot creation, and develops creative solutions for complex shots. The position also involves participation in new hire interviews.
Must have:
  • 8+ years relevant experience
  • Proficiency in Nuke, Silhouette, Commodore
  • Strong artistic eye and color matching skills
  • Advanced hand-painting techniques
  • Excellent communication & leadership skills
  • 3D/Stereoscopic roto and paint expertise

Job Details

Job Posting Title:

Paint & Roto Supervisor

Req ID:

10113285

Job Description:

About ILM

Founded by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, with studios located in San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Sydney and Mumbai. ILM has created visual effects for over 325 feature films and has played a key role in seven of the top 10 worldwide box-office hits of all time and has contributed to 25 of the top 50. ILM has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film. At the forefront of the digital revolution, the company continues to break new ground in visual effects, VR, AR, and Immersive Cinema. You can see some of our current projects here.

Your role?

We are looking for a Paint & Roto Supervisor who reflects the innovative spirit, creative talent, production excellence, collaborative mindset and passion for great filmmaking that defines ILM.

The Supervisor’s primary responsibility is to oversee the day-to-day operations of the digital paint and roto team, ensuring that the painting of the shots is created according to the creative direction and visual style of the project. This will require partnering with other discipline supervisors and Production. Troubleshoots technical issues and provides recommendations. The Supervisor also delegates assignments and acts as the creative, technical, and morale lead for the digital paint team. This person provides constructive feedback on crew performance, makes recommendations and resolves issues. Mentoring of junior level and newly hired digital paint artists is a component of the position as well. The position also entails managing 3rd party vendors to ensure quality control and ensure that they have successfully been integrated into the working pipeline of the show. The supervisor also participates in interviews for new hires.

What will you be doing?

  • Works with Production to schedule work, and ensure that all targets are met; assigns work based on an evaluation of the team members’ skill sets. 

  • Actively works across departments in shot groups.

  • Provides updates to production and compositing team on shot progress and trouble-shoot where needed. 

  • Works with Production to determine which shots are suitable to send to Third Party Partners in different time zones, and gives direction to those partners on how to approach Roto/Paint tasks.

  • Gives artistic feedback to digital paint artists. 

  • Hits given notes, but is proactive in offering suggestions and alternate approaches.

  • Create generic scripts and templates to be used by other artists. 

  • Working on shots.

To be a contributing member of this team, you will have a mix of these skills:

  • 8+ years of relevant professional experience and a BA in Computer Graphics, Fine Arts, Design, or Photography, or related field; OR, an equivalent artistic background and experience. 

  • Minimum of 5 years production experience in computer graphics, animation or video.

  • Proficiency in softwares such as Commodore, Nuke and Silhouette. 

  • Excellent artistic eye, strong eye for color and grain structures with the ability to match saturation, hues and black points from multiple sources to create a cohesive final montage. 

  • Strong proficiency in “Paint on comp” work. 

  • Advanced skill at hand painting techniques. 

  • Ability to work with broad stroke notes and define looks for key events and shots. 

  • Able to handle complex shots with heavy motion blur, lots of layers, etc. 

  • Ability to use a combination of techniques when dealing with tricky wire removals and clean plates.

  • Technically proficient to perform all roto/paint tasks with proprietary and/or off-the-shelf software packages. 

  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal). 

  • Strong interpersonal and organization skills. 

  • Willingness to learn new tools, proven ability to be detail oriented, possess problem solving skills.

  • Ability to troubleshoot, problem solve and suggest effective approaches to tasks. 

  • Demonstrates a strong proficiency with 3D/Stereoscopic roto and paint work. 

  • Solid understanding of image pipeline from capture to delivery. Practical use of this knowledge to maintain the highest quality image possible. (i.e. concatenating transforms, color corrections, etc).

JoinILM

This position is with Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC, which is part of a business segment we call Industrial Light & Magic.

Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Job Posting Segment:

ILM Sydney

Job Posting Primary Business:

ILM Sydney

Primary Job Posting Category:

Digital Paint - Studios

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Sydney, Australia

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2025-02-11

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