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required skills:

• Expert knowledge in lighting/shading/rendering, modeling, texturing
• 5+ years of experience with Maya
• Strong knowledge of Houdini and Mari
• Team leading experience
• Very good in working with deadlines
• Strong problem solving ability
• Perfect eye for details/realism and feature film experience
• Very good English skills
• Knowledge in animation, FX and matte painting is a plus
• Knowledge in Zbrush, Photoshop, Nuke, scripting in Python and RenderMan
• A great sense of humor is a plus  

• Project planning and communicating with the client
• Organizing the workflow and your team ensuring that all members meet their deadlines
• Reviewing the work and giving technical and creative guidance to artists
• Help when help is needed and keep a cool head when the office seems to burn
• This position requires you to work on-site

required skills:

• Perfect eye for detail and realism
• Strong problem solving ability
• Advanced knowledge of 3D space compositing and multi channel EXR workflow
• Very good demo reel
• Nuke scripting and customization in Python
• Team leading ability
• General knowledge of Maya and/or 3D Studio Max

required skills:

• 5+ years of experience with Nuke
• Nuke scripting and customization in Python
• Experience with deep compositing
• Basic knowledge of matchmoving software and workflow
• Team leading experience
• Advanced knowledge of 3D space compositing and multi channel exr workflow
• General knowledge of Maya and/or Houdini
• Very good in working with deadlines
• Strong problem solving ability
• Perfect eye for details and realism / feature film experience
• Very good English skills
• A great sense of humor is a plus  

• Project planning and communicating with the client
• Organizing the workflow and your team ensuring that all members meet their deadlines
• Reviewing the work and giving technical and creative guidance to artists
• Help when help is needed and keep a cool head when the office seems to burn
• This position requires you to work on-site  

required skills:

• Very good knowledge of React, including global state management.
• Good knowledge of Python.
• Good knowledge of database management with SQLAlchemy and Alembic.
• Good knowledge of software testing with Jest and Pytest / Bonus JavaScript.
• An interest in learning more about the processes of the VFX industry.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment.
• Experience with Docker, Jenkins, Sentry.
• Experience with Selenium.
• Basic understanding of UI/UX – design.
• Experience with Agile.
• German language skills (just a plus, not required)
• EU citizenship or an existing German work permit is required.
• (Our Tech Stack): 
• Backend: We use Python for almost everything. In short: The MySQL database is accessed via SQLAlchemy, and made available as a GraphQL endpoint over a Starlette server using the graphene ecosystem.
• Frontend: A Typescript React app with MaterialUI V5 as the styling solution.
• Noteworthy libraries we use are: react-table, Zustand for state management and Apollo as our GraphQL client.
• Our test suites are based on Pytest, jest and Selenium.
• The entire app is managed and deployed with Docker.
• Continuous Integration is done on Jenkins.  

• The successful candidate will work within a small but dedicated team of developers on our new company-wide production management software. It is set to replace our existing Python/Qt-based infrastructure with a modern browser-based application.
• The role’s focus will be on implementing new features in the frontend, as that is where the most support is needed at the moment.
• Later on, once there is a better understanding of our existing infrastructure, the role will also include working on the backend.
• We maintain a flat hierarchy in our team and expect our new teammate to contribute to our decision-making process.
• Since this is a position on a distributed team, it is important that our new teammate communicates regularly with the other team members and keeps everyone informed about their progress. We expect you to be pro-active and never hesitate to ask for help when you are stuck! Work is a team effort.    

required skills:

• 5+ years of experience within the VFX industry
• Substantial knowledge and experience in Houdini
• Proven experience in a large variety of effects, including pyro, fluids, particle, destruction, finite elements, vellum, grains and crowds
• Demonstrated leadership and experience in a supervisory role in a VFX studio
• Desire to motivate artists, provide constructive feedback and foster a collaborative spirit within your team of artists
• This position requires you to work on-site

• Lead a team of FX artists and drive them to deliver in a timely manner with high quality results
• Forecast needs and sensibly delegate shot-work to ensure shots are completed successfully by all levels of FX artists on the project
• Supervision of the technical and artistic aspects of the FX team’s output to ensure exceptional and photorealistic fx simulations are produced
• Work closely with the VFX Supervisor, VFX Producer, Head of FX and other departmental supervisors

required skills:

•  At least 3 years of experience in a professional VFX environment
• Perfect eye for detail and realism
• Advanced knowledge of lighting and shading for multi-pass output
• Comfortable in working with EXR multi-channel files
• Advanced knowledge in both traditional lighting and HDRI based lightin
• Experience with Houdini
• Familiarity with USD and Solaris is a plus
• Basic knowledge in one or more of these render engines is a plus: Mantra, Karma, Renderman
• Knowledge of creating tools in Houdini and Python is a plus
• Good knowledge of Nuke for creating complex slap compositions

• Creating lighting set up in a virtual scene, as well as technical recreation of lighting of the film set
• Rendering shots and sequences with technical optimization of the scene
• Creation of renders in consultation with the compositing department
• Shot-specific reworking and optimization of shaders in consultation with LookDev artists

required skills:

•  3+ years of experience in the VFX industry
•  Good knowledge of Python
•  Good knowledge of PySide/PyQt
•  Good knowledge of 3dequalizer
•  Good knowledge of Maya
•  Understanding of lens and camera workflows in a VFX environment Nice to haves:
•  Experience with other DCCs like Mari, Houdini, Nuke
•  Experience with sqlalchemy
•  Experience with webdevelopment (react, fastAPI)
•  Experience with unittesting and TDD

•  Design and create tools for artists with Python and PySide/PyQt
• Automate workflows with Python in 3dequalizer
•  Design new workflows in coorporation with the head of 3D
•  Support users and debug their problems

required skills:

• 3+ years of experience within the VFX industry
• Knowledge of the industry’s terminology
• Self-organizing, problem solving, and great with juggling multiple tasks
• Collaborative team spirit and assertiveness without being bossy
• Ability and willingness to lead a small coordination team
• Instinct to forecast workload in order to set short-term goals and ensure meeting final deadlines
• Positive and proactive attitude to ensure a good atmosphere within the team
• Experience with Excel, FileMaker, Shotgun, DaVinci is a plus
• Good German and English skills
• Experience in bidding is appreciated

• Manage workflow with the Producer and Facility Resource Manager to balance production schedule and employee resources in a multi-show environment
•  Together with the Producer, develop, adapt and implement production strategies as needed to ensure the smooth and timely delivery of a show
•  Together with the Producer, help to maintain the overall production schedule and department quotas to hit the targets outlined by the Producer
•  Assist the Producer to regularly monitor and suggest improvements to the production workflow pertaining to scheduling, information flow and resource management
•  Update production crew list and resource planning documents
•  Assist the Producer when needed with the daily interaction with clients on production-related needs and deliveries
•  Oversee Coordinators in managing artist assignments and production requirements from beginning to end of production
•  Responsible for watching over the day-to-day operations of the show within the facility
•  Oversee the coordination of dailies and reviews, ensuring accurate notes are taken and production priorities are distributed and followed through
•  Oversee client deliveries of all temps and finals
•  Create and maintain weekly status reports to track Asset and Shot progress to ensure compliance with (weekly) deadlines
•  Understand elements impacting Departments to foresee/prevent challenges in the project schedule
•  Facilitate inter-departmental meetings to encourage good communication and structured workflow
•  Participate in client meetings when needed
•  Anticipate special project requirements (software, hardware, server space, render capacity, resources) and ensuring information is communicated to IT/Systems and Producer as early as possible
•  Communicate with external vendors for outsourcing purposes
•  Mentor Production Coordinators and Production Assistants in their respective areas
•  Other duties and responsibilities consistent with your position may be assigned to you from time to time

required skills:

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required skills:

•  Basic knowledge of the industry's terminology
•  The ability to organize yourself and multi-task
•  Good team working ability and assertiveness without being bossy
•  Working well with deadlines
•  Good problem solving ability
•  Positive and proactive attitude to ensure a good atmosphere within the team
•  Good German and English skills
•  Experience with Excel, FileMaker, Shotgun, DaVinci is a plus  

•  Report to project (“show”) Producer and PM, while working with other coordinators on the project to keep the show operating in an organized and efficient manner
•  Work with Producer, Leads and Supervisors to proactively track and manage the workflow through the departments meeting internal and external deadlines
•  Together with the Producer and PM, build a daily dept schedule and set up Artist pages with current and upcoming assignments that hits the targets and quotas set by the Producer
•  Keep communication flowing from Supervisor to Leads and Crew as well as upstream and downstream departments to ensure that dependencies are on track
•  Anticipate and communicate issues to the Producer and Supervisor to resolve problems quickly
•  Organize dailies, rounds and meetings, take notes and follow up on information for Artists and Leads as necessary
•  Prepare meeting rooms for client calls
•  Take detailed, comprehensive notes and review them after dailies/notes
•  Constantly check in with Artists to ensure task delivery dates and milestones are met, while keeping overtime to a minimum. Flag any issues or concerns which have schedule implications to Producer & PM
•  Ensure RISE Base task assignments and statuses are kept up to date across shots, tasks and versions
•  Manage client deliveries on rotation with the other coordinators
•  Ingest client feedback
•  Organize client reference material and keep on top of client requests ensuring they are answered in a timely manner
•  Keep on top of all client requests
•  Manage resources and communicate coherently with other support departments (e.g., Pipeline, Editorial, HR)
•  Liaise with Editorial Department to ensure they have up-to-date line up data and sequence cuts
•  May be required to supervise, delegate work to and train Production Assistants
•  Run reviews with crew (dailies), clients, external vendors, and various meetings while ensuring technical functionality beforehand
•  Work close with IT and Pipeline Departments using ticket system
•  Ability to learn basic commands required to assist artists in file organization, submitting shots and QC-ing movies
•  Other ad hoc duties as may reasonably be expected
•  Help maintain a positive work environment by having a proactive attitude focused on collaboration with all team members

required skills:

• Experience using timeline editing software (i.e. Hiero, DaVinci, Avid, Premiere)
• Knowledge of different file formats (jpeg, tiff, mov, etc.)
• Some colourspace OCIO experience
• Excellent organizational skills
• Flexibility and reasonability
• Excellent attention to detail
• Problem solving skills
• General interest in the VFX industry and editing
• Proactive manner and be a keen collaborator
• Great sense of humour!

• Upkeeping of client edits, ongoing checking of team’s work and communication about any editorial changes         
• Ingesting plates, edit refs and count sheets
• Dealing with lensgrid data if required
• Updating the internal shot database
• Transcoding material into the VFX pipeline
• Creating minicuts for the client and VFX Supe
• Exporting EDLs for our RV context tool
• Close coordination with the Production teams
• Creation of showreels and clips for the RISE homepage and social media
• Researching reference material
• Attending daily project meetings
• Client delivery checking if required
• Operating screenings if required    

required skills:

• Extensive experience in VFX production (5+ years)
• The ability to work independently and to organize yourself and a crew of 10+ people
• Detail orientation and constant improvement of operational efficiency
• High sense of responsibility
• Extensive experience with Excel, Filemaker or MS Project
• Positive and proactive attitude to ensure a good work atmosphere
• Very good German and English skills
• A great sense of humor is a plus

•  Supporting the Executive VFX Producer with bid work
•  Overseeing the weekly targets and overall show schedule
•  Setting up shot grouping and artist assignment after each turnover
•  Preparing the bidding of new shots or changes to the current scope of work
•  Managing resources with the Resource Manager
•  Reporting back to the Executive VFX Producer about bid adjustments.
•  Maintaining the RISE database with bidding and billing
•  Manage the overall workflow of a project
•  Bid work with the VFX Supervisor
•  Responsible of bidding new shots or changes to the current scope of work
•  Plan and schedule facility resources with the VFX Supervisor and Facility Resource Manager to create an effective approach to the visual effects work across multiple offices
•  Determine the milestones and oversee general scheduling and project plan
•  Responsible of making sure the milestones schedule is respected
•  Ensure the progression of work is to the client’s satisfaction
•  Report the progress of work to the client on a weekly basis
•  Ensure all Facility Departments are aware of the production’s requirements, for example disk space and render capacities
•  Leading the Production Team and overseeing their work
•  Approval of vacation of the project team (in accordance with the project’s schedule)
•  Negotiate with external vendors for outsourcing purposes
•  Other day-to-day duties might occur
• This position requires you to work on-site

required skills:

• Minimum of 5+ years VFX post-production experience
• Experience as a VFX Supervisor
• Solid previous experience as CG or Comp Supervisor
• Creative eye and aesthetic judgment with a deep understanding of composition, cinematic design and animation timing
• On-set supervision experience
• Very good in working with deadlines
• Team leading experience
• Strong problem solving ability
• Perfect eye for details and realism
• Very good English skills
• A great sense of humor is a plus

• Understanding the entire production process and approving the work of the entire crew working on the show
• Project planning and set supervision
• Communication with the client
• Reviewing the work and giving technical and creative guidance to artists
• Organizing the workflow and your team ensuring that all members meet their deadlines
• Help when help is needed and keep a cool head when the office seems to burn
• This position requires you to work on-site