Lead Compositing

Job Description

Mikros Animation is a global CGI animation studio located in Paris, Montreal, Los Angeles, Bangalore and London, dedicated to feature films and episodic content. Since its inception, Mikros Animation has always put creativity and CG artistry at the heart of its animation and production activities, allowing our artists to work across a great variety of stories with a high level of stylized craft. So far, Mikros Animation has contributed to ten released feature animations and to numerous high-quality animated series, for the world's best-known animation studios, either as creative studio, line producer or executive producer. Mikros Animation has also produced more than 250 hours of programming, broadcast by notable channels including Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, TF1, France TV, Gulli, M6, Gloob, and Super RTL. Our animated episodic content airs and streams globally, in over 180 countries.

At Mikros Animation, we believe great animation is about making real connections with real people. By partnering with filmmakers to unite their creative visions, with our industry-leading craftsmanship and artistry, we create characters that connect with audiences on an authentic and emotional level to bring powerful stories to life.

Under the responsibility of the Compositing Supervisor and the Sup Image CG, your main tasks will be:
• To be the leader and referent of the compositing team
• Provide strong artistic and technical expertise
• Ensure the follow-up of tools according to needs
• Supervise the work of your team (about 6 artists)
• Ensure that the requested retakes are properly taken into account and monitor them
• Comply with the quotas given by the production

Qualifications
• Mastery of Nuke is essential
• Knowledge of Katana, Arnold and Shotgun appreciated
• Experience as an essential lead Compositing lead
• Knowledge of Python scripting would be a plus
• Be a force of proposal and know how to adapt
• Be a team leader!!!!! Lead, train and support your team of artists, be a source of inspiration, build and maintain a good state of mind within the department
• Experience in animated feature film(s) is required, in VFX is a plus
• Strong knowledge of 3D and the production line of a desired animated film
• Rigour, autonomy and organizational ability are pronounced
• Good level of English required

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dybo00-18-222-205-211-42 in your application.