Senior Digimatte Artist II - Temp Job Vancouver BC Canada,Entertainment & Gaming

Job Description:

Blizzard award-winning Cinematics Department has a new opening for a Senior Digimatte Artist II. As a Digimatte Artist on the team, youre responsible for crafting fully rendered environment driven shots across all our various IPs and visual styles. This work ranges from creating fully rendered one-off 3D shots to landscapes, set extensions, projection painting and sky domes. Your wheelhouse should be that of a well-rounded generalist skillset, with an emphasis in traditional and digital art fundamentals, specifically in image composition, perspective, lighting, texturing, and color theory.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA. However, we understand each persons circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore other possible options, including remote work arrangements.

This is a 12-Month temporary position.

What You Bring to the Table:

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

Create, extend, project, and/or improve environment shots using a combination of 2.5D and 3D Digimatte skills, workflows, and methodologies.

Possess a critical eye for the development of 3D assets involving Look Dev (modeling, sculpting, texturing, baking LODs, and lighting), to execute the finishing of final rendered shots of various artistic styles.

Skilled at integrating and compositing 2D photo references and 3D rendered elements together to achieve finished photo-real rendered frames.

Collaborate with team members in the execution of an element of, or an entire finaled shot.

Robust understanding of cameras, lenses and how they affect your shot composition.

Comfortable managing complex scenes and optimizing them for maximum render efficiencies.

Minimum Requirements

Experience

10+ years experience working within AAA game cinematics and/or the VFX/Animation Industry

Experience with Houdini, 3ds Max & Nuke in a professional environment (Game Studio, VFX/Animation Studio)

Experience with Maya, VRay, Redshift, Zbrush, Mudbox, Speed Tree, GrowFX, Forest Pack, World Machine, Gaea, Photoshop, Substance and Quixel Studio

Knowledge & Skills

Ability to work independently from providedshot concept

Be able to effectively communicate about the work you are producing

Effectively communicate with artists, supervisors, and production to highlight any concerns while offering solutions to achieve our collective vision and goals

Extra Points

Experience leading projects, representing the team in dailies, and working with creative leadership teams across multiple IPs to help execute the show vision within scope and budget

Familiarity with the Blizzard IPs and associated lore

Passion for painting, sculpting, photography, and filmmaking

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and Star Craft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industrys most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards.

Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via ®, Xbox, Play Station, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush and Bubble Witch. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire…


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