Freelance Senior Paint Artist

As a Senior Paint artist, you will be responsible for delivering high quality shots in a quick and efficient manner. You will be working closely with Leads, Supervisors, and Compositors to deliver outstanding VFX. You should have a great eye for composition and color and be passionate about delivering the best-looking shots possible. We are expecting you to have a thorough knowledge of Nuke and Silhouette.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Paint out wires, rigs, crew, mocap people, tracking markers and any other unwanted items from plates, using various paint techniques both procedural and frame by frame.
• Integrate the generated patches or clean plates seamlessly to the plates matching color, saturation, black and white points, motion blur, defocus etc.
• Good Understanding of grain management
• Able to deal with paint artefacts, sharpness and color issues
• 2D Tracking and planar tracking in both Silhouette and Nuke
• Able to work with Camera and UV Projections in Nuke for procedural paint outs
• Able to handle complex tasks such as multilayer projection character recreation basic element comping
• Able to break shots down into individual components with little supervision
• Take ownership and responsibility of the paint task and proactively troubleshoot potential issues
• Coordinate with other artist on same shot by taking ownership of the shot
• Understand feedback given by lead or supervisors
• Mentor and share knowledge with junior artist

What happens next? 

If you think Outpost sounds like a good fit for you, or you simply want to chat with someone about the role and our culture, get in touch today!

Equal opportunities

At Outpost we believe that our strength lies in our differences. These help us to take different perspectives, challenge norms and create a special environment based on mutual respect. Outpost is an equal opportunities employer. Employment with us is based on a person’s extraordinary talent and potential. No candidate will receive any less favourable treatment based on their age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual preference, or any other factor that has no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.