THE COMPANY
Our client is a global production company with a reputation for
delivering the highest quality advertising and marketing campaigns for some off
the most well known brands in the world.
THE ROLE
The company is now looking to appoint a Senior
Nuke Supervisor to manage and develop the Nuke Department creatively and
technically, ensuring output from the team is of the highest possible standard
and completed on time and within budget.
You will
oversee the work coming through the department, managing the team and also
work as a hands on senior Nuke Artist.
Working with the Head of 2D, Lead MGFX, Tech
department and Senior Broadcast Team, you will establish what the team’s
technical needs are and ensure the output of the VFX department is developing
technically and creatively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Line managing staff and freelancers (training,
performance management, recruitment, holiday, sickness etc)
- Allocating work to team and overseeing
workload
- Attending shoots physical and virtually
- Researching advances in visual effects
technology to help with the development of the department
- Taking part in briefings with Producers on
upcoming projects
- Testing new hardware/software, problem
solving and troubleshooting. Updating Nuke Python environment
- Planning, developing and documenting new workflows
and best practises.
THE PERSON:
With a significant
background in Nuke and experience in managing and developing a team, you will
have an excellent knowledge of post production workflows and an deep
understanding of Nuke Studio, Flame,
After Effects, Resolve, Maya, C4D.
Specialising in advertising
and branded content, you will have an excellent technical understanding of render technologies (real-time
& non-real-time), Windows, Mac & Linux Nuke Environments, Python
scripting.
You will be skilled at managing and
developing a team of people and have a strong working knowledge of cameras,
lenses, lighting, file formats (2d, 3d, artwork, photography), green and blue
screen, high speed photography, client attend sessions, 3D assets; geometry,
scenes, rigs, scanned data, Edit / VFX conforms, 2D Workflows; acquisition,
offline, conform, online, grade, delivery, and grading; Resolve, Baselight
If your skills & experience fit the above requirements and you would
like to take the next step, please apply online attaching your CV in WORD
format.
What to EXPECT
- Searchlight
only advertises active roles.
- Your
details will be sent directly to the Consultant who is handling this role.
If this role isn’t quite right,
but you would like us to have your CV on file, please send it to sroffice@searchlight.com
Searchlight
strives to promote equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications regardless
of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity,
socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
To learn more about Searchlight,
see: www.searchlight.com
