Supervisor

Job Summary

Specific Functions/Activities Summary

• Partner with producers and key creatives to ensure the portfolio of work on all projects is accomplished efficiently, to the required quality standards, and within the schedule.


• Work with DP and Creative Director to plan practical shoots as necessary to work seamlessly with post-production; ensure an on-location presence during shooting to assure technical guidelines are followed for post-production.


• Prepare the visual effects production breakdown including developing methodology and approach to show in order to accomplish work efficiently and within show budget.


• Maintain communications between the Director and the production team. Runs dailies, give crew direction on shots and assets, aesthetic direction and feedback


• Strong understanding of directory structure, file formats, naming conventions, scripts, automation tools, automated dailies


• Maintain a high level of proficiency in current tools and methodologies - both proprietary and 3rd party applications available on the market.


• Lead the crew, provide mentoring, individual training and professional guidance as needed.


• Develop knowledge of the individual skills sets of digital and production artists.


• Participate in show and annual performance reviews for the artists.


• Aware of the impact creative decisions have on a show's schedule & budget, and be willing to change the creative choices, when possible, to stay on schedule budget.

Qualifications

• 10 + years hands-on digital production experience as a supervisor in a feature film production environment.


• A demonstrable blend of technical and artistic skills, preferably with experience as a Technical Director or Digital Artist.


• Extensive knowledge of production and CG pipelines


• Thorough understanding of film production and on-set experience


• Reel demonstrating robust high end Feature Film experience.


• Must be attentive to the production team, the other supervisors and the coordinators;


• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Fine Art, or equivalent work experience.


• Experience with Mystika, Shake, Nuke, and asset manager, Shotgun or proprietary equivalent.


• Experience with Maya, 3dsMax, XSI, Adobe Photoshop or proprietary equivalent.


• Excellent project management skills


• Excellent communication, organization and interpersonal skills


• Strong knowledge and understanding of Lighting, Compositing, Digital Matte Painting, Texturing and Modeling.


• Must be willing and able to travel to location for on-set work.

Education

• Candidates who have completed 60 credits of college-level coursework (representing 2 years), or have shown similar self-development through certifications, trade school coursework, etc. are preferred.