Freelance Senior Paint Artist

Outpost VFX Limited; Mumbai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Outpost VFX Limited in Mumbai seeks an experienced Senior Paintartist responsible for delivering high-quality VFX shots efficiently. The ideal candidate will collaborate with Leads and Supervisors, using Nuke and Silhouette to produce outstanding results.

Responsibilities include painting out unwanted items, integrating patches seamlessly, and mentoring junior artists. The role requires a great eye for composition and detail, ensuring the best-looking shots possible while taking ownership of tasks.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of Nuke and Silhouette is required.
• Ability to perform paint tasks with attention to detail.
• Good understanding of color and composition.

Responsibilities

• Paint out wires and unwanted items from plates.
• Integrate generated patches seamlessly.
• Mentor and share knowledge with junior artists.

Skills

Nuke

Silhouette

2D Tracking

Color Management

Job description

Job Description

As a Senior Paintartist, 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

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.