Mid/Senior Compositor

Job Description

We are looking for freelance Mid to Senior compositors who are available to join us from May until the end of September. Submit your application and please include your availability in the candidate message field. We are open to fully remote work from any location in Europe.

As a compositor at ILP you are the last in a chain of great artists, and will have the pleasure to deliver the final, awesome looking images. You take pride in owning your work from start to finish, while proactively collaborating with team members from different departments. As a compositor at ILP, you will set up comps from scratch, or at times use an agreed upon template or method, as well as share any good solutions you find with your fellow pirates. Be the rock in a stormy ocean of feedback, technical challenges and production pressures.

If you enjoy an environment where you are expected to take action and interact with whomever you need to in order to get your shots done, you will love working at ILP! You will be highly involved with and keep track of who your lighter is, and talk to them to resolve any issues with renders. If your milestone targets are hard to meet, you will catch up with the production coordinator on your show. We want our compositors to be able to add their creativity to their work and there is usually room for creative suggestions outside of the original brief.

We value artists with a humble attitude who get excited about learning new things and, most importantly, who are passionate about doing spectacular, high quality visual effects.

Your work will include:

• Evaluating creative and technical approach for assigned shots together with your supervisor

• Setting up your composites from scratch without any template

• Performing all tasks associated with the compositing process, including 2D tracking, matte extraction, layering of elements, and colour grading on moderately difficult to very difficult shots

• Communicating with the team on matters regarding your schedule and tasks

• Proactively engaging with other departments regarding the shots you are working on

• Integrating world class CG with photographic plates

• Adding elements, grading and final touches to full CG shots

• Working on some of the coolest shows in the business with some of the most talented colleagues

• Delivering great looking shots, on time

You need the following:

• 5+ years of experience from working with high end visual effects
• Excellent knowledge of Nuke, our main compositing package
• Very thorough knowledge all aspects of compositing
• Experience and habit in working in a highly organised fashion
• Great communication skills in English, both written and spoken
• Where applicable, you need to adapt ILPs documented style guides and techniques
• A humble and helpful attitude
• An excellent understanding of how to proactively and critically evaluate your own work, before presenting it to your lead or supervisor
• Excellent eye for judging photo-realism, balance and colour
• Deep compositing experience

The following are considered a plus:

• Scripting and programming for Nuke
• Colour science knowledge
• Documented leadership skills

Other software we use (knowledge of these are a bonus):

• RV
• Shotgun
• Silhouette
• Mocha
• Adobe Photoshop
• Krita
• Neat Video Reduce Noise