Visualisation Artist – Virtual Production

Responsibilities:

• Creative Collaboration: Work closely with content creators and creative leads to understand their vision and requirements, ensuring alignment with the overall creative direction
• Cinematic Previsualisation: Design, create, assemble, and deliver effective cinematic previsualisations of key sequences, focusing on shot composition, staging, lighting, and camera work
• Editing and Animatics: Utilise basic editing, rendering, and compositing skills to create animatics that effectively communicate the flow and timing of sequences
• Environment and Asset Creation: Deconstruct initial mood boards and concepts into aesthetically appealing environments, utilising your expertise in Unreal Engine and 3D asset creation
• Technical Feasibility: Ensure the technical feasibility of ideas and collaborate with technical teams to solve challenges, iterating on changes and offering creative input to enhance sequence continuity and consistency
• Workflow Management: Ensure all production workflows and deadlines are met, delivering a final product that is high-quality and within budget
• Pipeline Development: Collaborate with other technologists and teams across Qube to develop and improve the pipeline and toolset, establishing best practices and standards for Qube's Virtual Production initiatives
• Industry Evangelism: Advocate for and drive the adoption of previsualisation techniques within the media and entertainment industry
  

What we are looking for:

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in previsualisation or related fields within a virtual environment
• Unreal Engine Expertise: Mastery of Unreal Engine, with a strong understanding of environment creation, world-building techniques, and 3D asset creation using PBR workflows
• Cinematic Composition: An expert eye for cinematic composition and lighting, with a deep understanding of cinematic language, camera terminology, and visual storytelling
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in After Effects/Premiere and 3D DCC software, with basic skills in editing, rendering, and compositing to create animatics
• Staging and Animation: Expertise in staging, blocking, camera motion, and character animation, with a strong grasp of timing and performance
• Motion Capture & EPOS: Experience with EPOS for Unreal Engine and motion capture is a plus
• Basic editing, rendering and compositing skills to create animatics
• Aesthetic Judgment: A good grasp of proportion, colour, and lighting, aiding in effective visual storytelling
• Adaptability: Strong work ethic with the ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities in high-pressure, deadline-driven environments
• Portfolio: A portfolio or website demonstrating your technical and artistic abilities, including Unreal-based work, is required
• Additional Experience: Experience with virtual production workflows and technologies is a plus