DreamWorks Feature - Previsualization Artist

Responsibilities: “What would you say you do here?”

• Establish character blocking, camera positioning, and animate camera movement.

• Build an animatic interpretation of the story reel.

• Ensure that the vision of the Director and Art Director are incorporated into the film where possible.

• Work with existing storyboards, recreate and/or enhance story through cinematic layout of shots.

• May create rough pre-visualization models and environments to facilitate animatic work.

• Collaborate with the Editorial department to incorporate materials and animatic work into the production reel.

• Help guide the pre-visualization and layout work flow, tool and pipeline development with input and testing.

• Pre-visualize the look of the film - characters, locations, effects, look - in collaboration with the Art Department.

• Pre-visualize and layout sequences of shots that convey the story based on storyboards, story reel, and/or script pages.

• Model, surface, and rig pre-visualization and layout models, characters, environments, and effects.

• Optimize assets and scenes for real time interactive playback.

• Plan and prepare motion capture and camera capture sessions.

• Active participant at virtual shoots capturing motion capture data.

• Active participant at camera capture session capturing camera motion.

• Work in pre-visualization and layout on lighting, effects, rough character animation/blocking, camera motion, and rough editing.

• Motion edit motion capture and keyframe animation of characters.

• Deliver shot data to Final Layout Department that meet the need of production.

Basic Qualifications: “What do I need to have in order to do this job?”

• 3 years of computer graphics pre-visualization production experience

• Experience with motion capture based pre-visualization workflow

• Expertise in programs such as Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Motion Builder, Adobe Photoshop

• Expertise with editing software

• Moderate to advanced modeling, surfacing and rigging skills

• Moderate to advanced skills in effects animation

Desired Qualifications: “What can I offer?”

• Film background and/or film education 

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-DreamWorks worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence.

Salary Range: $89,752 - $130,000

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