Senior Roto-Paint Artist Jobs

About Pixomondo
PXO creates industry-leading Virtual Production and Visual Effects for premium Film and Episodic content. With over 20 industry awards and nominations, PXO, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company, is a trusted partner for storytellers and showrunners worldwide. The company has been creating iconic work since 2001, from Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning Hugo and HBO’s Emmy winning Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, through to Amazon’s The Boys, Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and many more.
In Virtual Production, PXO helps clients to realize their creative vision, from production through to post-production. Using interactive technology and proprietary software and solutions, PXO brings ideas to life by virtually immersing filmmakers in the worlds they imagined, throughout every stage of the creative process. The company’s latest LED volume work includes House of the Dragon, Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Netflix’s upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender.
PXO has seven studios and three LED volumes in the US, UK, Germany and Canada.
The Roto Paint Artist will play a critical role in the successful delivery of high-quality roto and paint work on our projects. The successful candidate will work closely with our team to create accurate mattes and remove unwanted elements from shot plates.
Primary Responsibilities

• Modify and remove isolated elements for digitally composited sequences using procedural and hand painting methods
• Perform background repair and wire removal
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of rotoscoping techniques and 2D animation skills
• Remove unwanted elements such as wires, rigs or tracking markers from shot plates
• Paint final comps before film-out to resolve last-minute problems
• Create accurate mattes to extract specific elements from shot plates
• Perform plate clean-up by removing unwanted artifacts and compositing them with a clean plate created by the artist using tracking software and scripting

Job Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Nuke
• Strong team player with a positive attitude
• Detail-oriented with excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience with hand paint and procedural comp/paint a plus
• Able to work under tight deadlines
• Dependable, flexible, and able to take direction well
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• At least 2+ year(s) of industry roto and paint experience
• Ability to work efficiently within a production environment
• Willingness to learn new tools and adapt to new software

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