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General Summary

The CG Look Development Artist is responsible for generating textures and surfaces in the production of high quality, accurate, photo-real, and stylized environment assets.

General Summary

The CG Look Development Artist is responsible for generating textures and surfaces in the production of high quality, accurate, photo-real, and stylized environment assets.

Job Functions

• Create and refine materials to achieve the final look of an asset.
• Build and maintain show shading networks.
• Work within a physically based shading context, balancing and validating material responses across multiple assets.
• Build custom looks and materials for specialty assets.
• Digitally create and implement CG assets for stop motion VFX, ensuring color and surfacing of CG assets reflect the vision and/or requirements of the given project.
• Work with the Environments team to address supervisors’ and directors’ notes.
  
  

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in live-action or photoreal feature film production.
• Proficient in Renderman (or equivalent), Katana, Mari, and Substance Painter and Designer.
• Strong aesthetic sense and keen eye for detail.
• Technical understanding of color space.
• Efficient UV layout experience using a UDIM workflow, required.
• Basic compositing skills in Nuke required.
• Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills to balance priorities in a deadline-driven production environment.
• Ability to take direction and implement feedback.
• Basic understanding of plate and image-based lighting, as well as full CG lighting, preferred.
• Basic understanding of multi-pass rendering and 3D scene layout preferred.
• Experience with Houdini, Maya, Zbrush, a plus.
  
  

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk; stand; sit; use hands to operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear both in person and by telephone. The employee must lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee works under typical office conditions and is exposed to variable indoor temperatures. The noise level is usually quiet or moderate.
  
  

Location

On-site in Hillsboro, OR, and eligible for remote work (in OR, CA or WA only).

Salary

Salary Is Commensurate With Skills And Experience.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

Please review our EMPLOYMENT DISCLAIMER and MATERIALS SUBMISSION AGREEMENT.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Animation

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