After Effects Comp Artist
Lighthouse Studios
- Kilkenny
- Contract
- Full-time
- Create and composite digital FX, highlights and tones within the current compositing pipeline.
- Collaborate with teams’ FX artists and supervisors to achieve consistent and high-quality results.
- Manage renders and set up shots technically.
- Integrate all layers including animation, environment, lighting and AFX-related materials to create the final shots.
- Ensure and maintain the expected quality, style and schedule across the production.
- Meet production deadlines and maintain regular communication with leads and supervisors.
- Collaborate with other team members to improve methods, workflows and techniques.
- Identify and report any issues that arise that may affect timelines or delivery schedules.
- Work very closely with the animation supervisor, layout supervisor and compositing supervisor on direction of each scene.
- Export background elements from Adobe Photoshop, and animation sequences from Toon Boom Harmony.
- Layer each sequence/scene you are provided with using After Effects.
- Add camera-moves, masks, filters, blurs, colour-adjustments, colour grading,texture work, time-effects and anything else that generally falls under the umbrella of 2D compositing.
- Analyse and troubleshoot common technical issues in conjunction with the compositing Lead/Supervisor to solve problems within scenes.
- Archive relevant comp material for partial reuse in the future.
- Other duties as may be required with early compositing and scene prep.
- Minimum 2 year of animation or live-action composition experience is required
- VFX, mogfx & 2D tv or film experience, Multiplaning and advance lighting
- Experience using After Effects is required
- Comfortable in the adobe CC suite
- Experience using Toom boom, Nuke or other node based compositing software is considered an asset
- Minimum 2 year of animation or live-action composition experience is required
- Must be a team player