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Posted: June 20, 2007
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subject: Layout Supervisor (#769-MH396) , Rainmaker Entertainment Inc.

Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. is looking for Layout Supervisor (#769-MH396)

Job details:

We are recruiting for a Layout Supervisor!


 

Start: ASAP


 

Overall Accountabilities:


 


Leads layout artists in the creation of a cinematic vision for the production that supports the narrative. Serves as the creative layout lead. Manages the translation of story sketches into a 3D version of the story reel. Oversees the creation of story composition, staging and initial camera set-up. Recommends creative and technical solutions to aesthetic problems. Shepherds shots through final layout. Accountable for shot count management. Accountable for on time, on budget execution and delivery of up to date layouts throughout production.


 

Duties Include:


 

- Responsible for creating and prepping all shots on the production by gathering all model and BG elements into a data file and inserting in a CG camera, in preparation for main animation. – based upon the storyboard reel.

- Responsible for setting up, organizing and maintaining the workflow within the layout department working on the picture.

- Responsible for working with the Producers and Production coordinators to determine the priority and ordering of all camera layouts being completed and lined up for the animation department.

- Responsible for communicating with the modeling department to ensure that all necessary model assets required to complete priority and prioritized layouts are completed on schedule, allowing the layout department to hit its deadlines and targets.

- Responsible for working closely with the Animation Director and Associate Producer / Production Manager to ensure a smooth flow of shots out of layout, into animation.

- Responsible for the setup, organization, and maintenance of the layout departments file structure, ensuring that the organization and file structure within the department is allowing and working well with the animation, modeling and compositing department’s needs.

- Communication of the layout department’s requirements, issues, and status to the Producers and Production coordinators, to ensure the department runs smooth and acquires all resources, and information it requires to service the layout of the picture.

- Participation in modeling, animation, and IT daily and weekly production meetings to fully understand the requirements of the layout department on the picture, and the overall status, advances, issues and requirements of the overall production.


 

Qualifications Include:

- 2+ years production experience on a CG animated feature film or equivalent experience.

- Thorough and Expert knowledge of CG programs: Softimage 3D/XSI, Alias/Wavefront Maya, etc.

- Expert knowledge of posing, and camera composition, as commonly understood in the CG and live action filmmaking industry.

- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux,

- Excellent problem solving, organization, and communication skills.


 



Thank you in advance for your application! Due to the high volume of applications, we only contact those applicants who are short-listed for interviews.

If you are interested in this position, please apply via our corporate website. www.mainframe.ca


Or, by post to:

Suite 200-2025 West Broadway Vancouver BC V6J 1Z6 Attn: Recruiting Or, fax to: 604-714-2641


 



 

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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