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RISE is constantly looking for talented visual effects artists and administrative staff. If you are interested in working with us, please send us your resume and latest demo reel.

Should you be wondering why it sucks not to work here?

RISE was the first feature film visual effects company in Germany to use The Foundry's Nuke as primary compositing application. Other than that, Silhouette and Mocha are still used for rotoscoping and paint work. Our main 3D packages are SideFX Houdini and Autodesk Maya, with Mantra rendering those pretty pixels. And because we tend to be bored quickly we also use Photoshop, Mari, Hiero, Mudbox, ZBrush, Topogun, Reality Capture, Geomagic Wrap, 3D Equalizer, Substance Painter and many, many proprietary RISE tools that we developed ourselves over the last years.

Please note:
You need a valid working permit for the European Union in order to apply. Unfortunately, we can't assist you in getting one for the time being.

 

CG Supervisor - Munich

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  
responsibilities:
  • 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

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Freelance Compositing Artists - Germany  

required skills:

  • At least 3-5+ years of working in a professional VFX environment
  • Perfect eye for detail and realism
  • Very good knowledge of 3D space compositing and multi-channel EXR workflow
  • Advanced knowledge of Nuke, general knowledge of Maya and/or Houdini
  • Nuke scripting and customization in Python skills
  • Familiarity with the USD pipeline is a plus.  
responsibilities:
  • Creating high quality composites and integrating all elements into the sequence
  • Matching our artificial elements to the shot plates and elevating fully artificial shots to a hyper realistic level
  • Color correcting, retouching, rotoscoping, chromakeying, degraining and regraining of the images
  • Collaborating with other artists on solving technical and creative challenges
  • Working closely with various departments to ensure high quality standards of the production    

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Compositing Supervisor - Berlin, Munich, London

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  
responsibilities:
  • 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  

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FX Lead - Berlin, Munich 

required skills:

  • Substantial knowledge and experience in Houdini and FX Simulation
  • Proven experience of 5+ years in a large variety of effects, including pyro, fluids, particles, destruction, vellum and crowds
  • Desire to motivate artists, provide constructive feedback and foster a collaborative spirit within your team of artists
  • Good organizational skills and the ability to manage a team
  • Excellent understanding of CG Mathematics, Physics and VEX Scripting
responsibilities:
  • Lead your FX project teammates to meet expectations and deliver work in a timely manner
  • Work with the FX Supervisor to create the initial setups and templates for the project’s FX tasks
  • Provide feedback and mentorship to your FX teammates, and help them find solutions to their technical issues
  • Maintain reusable resources such as documentation and tutorials for FX team reference

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FX Supervisor - Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich

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
responsibilities:
  • 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

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Production Manager - Berlin

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
responsibilities:
  • 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

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Speculative Application - All Locations

required skills:

  • Filling in an application form
responsibilities:
  • None yet

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VFX Supervisor - London, Munich 

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
responsibilities:
  • 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

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