Asvp Visualization Supervisor

Job Description

Amazon Studios Virtual Production (ASVP) is looking for an ASVP Visualization Supervisor for our team. You will be working at the historic Culver Studios - where Gone with the Wind, King Kong, and ET were shot, to name a few. Come help move this rich tradition forward. You will interface with production to help filmmakers create Amazon Original Movies and Series for Prime Video. This includes supporting, developing, and hosting virtual production visualization services. Additional tasks include pitch-vis, virtual location scouting, tech-vis, sequence blocking, location capture, world-building, and more. You may be asked to work with the director, DP, VFX Supervisor, and Virtual Production Supervisor to help refine the creative planning, prototyping, and storytelling process.

As the Visualization Supervisor, you will guide clients through the best paths needed to depict their vision. Whether it's a matter of the client just starting their project and needing guidance on beginning a pitch-vis. Or perhaps the client already has pre-vis of a sequence and would need an efficient method of completing those shots on set. Let's say they've completed their principle of photography and are ready to go into VFX. But they are still a little foggy on the details. Post-vis would be a fast way to clear up their vision. Much of this would require strong communication skills, an understanding of pitch-vis, pre-vis, tech-vis, stunt-vis, and post-vis. All to best prepare the client to take their film on set and further.

ASVP is helping filmmakers bring their projects to life in a safe, innovative, and inspired art facility. You must be a builder at heart and a collaborator in spirit. This position will work closely with key creatives, production, and the talented technology crews of Amazon Studios Tech/AWS. We obsess over the filmmaker and the filmmaking process. This is ground zero for the development of VP filmmaking services, filmmaker tools, and the cultivation of talent behind the magic. On Day 1, we will connect globally to teams of collaborators in the cloud. Our new filmmaker workflows will ensure safety, limit exposure, add flexibility to schedules, and bring creative talent together in innovative ways.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to interpret and prioritize client needs.
• Understanding of the visualization process from start to finish, and knowing which vis-steps are necessary.
• Create, update, track and proactively maintain inward and outward-facing production resources and documents.
• Experience in working with a stunt-vis team, and knowing how to best prep them for capture and recording data.
• Able to generate technical diagrams & Quicktime's that demonstrate complex technical issues and requirements on set in a clear and concise manner.
• Serves as a bridge between individual productions and departments to make sure communication is clear and information is received in a timely manner.
• Able to manage a small team in an efficient approach to meet client needs.
• On set experience to understand and plan the best layout possible to maximize on set work.
• Execute technically difficult work while maintaining a productive and constructive attitude under the high pressure of production.
• Assist in creating pitch-vis and materials for production planning and green-lighting projects..
• Assist in creating pre-production art, pre-vis, and final pixels assets for live action VP photography.
• Contribute to the development and operation of the Amazon digital asset management system for locations, vehicles, architecture, characters, props and any other CG assets.
• Contribute to the development of custom pipelines for projects with specific creative and/or technological needs (including new technology) in collaboration with Amazon's engineering teams and existing, turn-key solutions.
• Constantly be testing new world building software, plug-ins, and methodologies.
• Maintain a high level of visual quality as well as signal quality of digital assets.
• Participate in daily and weekly reporting of production work.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• You must deal very well with production people - excellent communication, interpersonal and diplomacy skills are required.
• Understand cinematic language, camera terminology and have the ability to use motion blur, depth of field and other effects, to create realism.
• Understand shot continuity of sequence to help guide shot creation.
• Adapt quickly and accept change – often have to toss out ideas and start fresh.
• Possess an artistic eye for detail and understand the technical specifications for each project.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Communicate technical needs to Heads of Departments on shows ie. Art Dept, Camera, Stunts, SFX and VFX
• Proven techvis and/or technical planning experience
• Working knowledge of the roles of various departments on set (Camera, Art Dept, Grips, Gaffers, SFX, Stunts, video assist)
• Must be a builder, self-starter, curious, deep diver, big thinker, honest, resourceful, inventor, story-teller, have a tremendous bias for action, and work well in a small, multi-disciplinary, specialized team.
• Working knowledge of equipment used on set
• Create sequences of shots from storyboards and/or script pages to enhance story
• Animate creatures, props, and vehicles.
• Create scene lighting that complements the shot and matches the sequence.
• Understand concepts that are used heavily in previs such as the creation alpha/transparency cards and animated UV's for visual effects.
• Texture, rig, and light models quickly and efficiently.
• Design accurate models from storyboards, concept art, and/or script pages.
• Good understanding of a variety of concepts, practices, and procedures used in VFX, live-action film production, and the game industry
• DCC experience a plus: Maya, Houdini, Blender, 3DSMax, Nuke, Zbrush, Substance Painter
• Working knowledge of version control systems, eg., Perforce, Git.
• Familiarity with ACES/OCIO
• On-set experience, live television, Post-production, Game tech experience.
• VFX CG/Light/Comp department workflow experience at a VFX facility.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmw48x-3-140-198-43-42 in your application.