Job ID 10000409

Location Sydney, Australia

Business Industrial Light & Magic

Date posted Mar. 26, 2024

Job Summary:

ILM is currently hiring Compositors at all levels and often in multiple locations. You may not see your specific career level advertised online, through the process you and your recruiter will work together to find the right role that combines your unique experience and career goals. 

We are hiring across all levels for this discipline 

Your role?

As a Compositor, you will combine live action and computer generated elements into visual effects shots that realise the vision and creative direction of the client and Visual Effects Supervisor. You will work with things like live action plates, 2D tracking, matte extraction, layering elements, and colour grading to create seamlessly integrated shots.

You will ideally have strong fine arts foundation skills, such as photography and photographic lighting as well as a strong sense of composition, colour and design. However people normally are successful if they have experience and examples of work in only one area, as long as you are keen to learn!

What will you be doing?

• Use your artistic and technical skills alongside the Compositing Supervisor and VFX Supervisor to evaluate your approach for assigned shots

• Create high quality complete shots that maintains the overall look, colour balance, and quality for assigned shots and sequences to create uniformity in all finished work

• Collaborate as a team member in determining various aesthetic solutions; provides feedback to other members of the production by attending dailies on a regular basis

• Work with and mentor Apprentice / Jr. Artists. Assisting them with their shots

• Work to meet defined milestones within a timeline

• Attend dailies and be active in creative problem solving

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

• You may or may not have a Degree in Computer Graphics, Fine Arts, Design or Photography

• Ideally you will have 3 years relevant experience (Feature film)

• Proven ability through a showreel of your compositing skills

• Enjoy problem-solving or creative thinking skills

• Fluent in Nuke

• Python and/or C++ experience is a plus 

• An ability to write Nuke gizmos is a plus