A Little About Us
Luma Pictures is an artist centric feature film VFX studio located two blocks from the beach in Santa Monica, California. We maintain a unique culture with an amazingly talented staff and are always on the lookout for exceptional people for full time and project positions.
Currently Open Positions
FX Artist
Responsibilities
- Light and render FX passes for specific shots using developed FX rigs
- Develop rigs/techniques to implement and optimize approved looks
- Produce look tests based on provided reference materials
- Creation of tools and scripts to facilitate workflow
Qualifications
- Artist should be familiar with more than one of the following applications:
- Maya
- Houdini
- Realflow
- Krakatoa
- Fume
- Python scripting experience is a plus
- Understanding multi pass 3D compositing is a plus
- Artists must be able to take direction and work in a team focused environment, good communication skills are a must
- Strong time management skills and extremely organized.
- Solid work ethic and a positive attitude in the face of challenging situations.
- Los Angeles Residents or willingness to relocate preferred - Relocation assistance may be available subject to negotiation
Paint/Roto Artist
Responsibilities
- 2D tracking
- Matte extraction
- Rig removal/paint fixes
- 3d camera projections
- Clean plate creation
- Grain matching
- Spline based roto creation
Qualifications
- Artist should have at least one year of experience working on feature films or HD Teleproduction
- Artists must know Nuke, Shake, Combustion, and/or Motor
- Los Angeles residents preferred
System Administrator
Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be able to contribute to many aspects of our production network; including user support, OS management and scripting. The precise tasks can vary depending on what you bring to the table, but some of the outstanding responsibilities are:
-manage and troubleshoot hardware and software issues on user workstations running Mac, Linux and occasionally Windows
-BASH and/or Python scripting to increase production in our area of supporting the artists
-assisting with other items such as power issues, building issues, and other general Issues
-ethernet cabling, power cabling, server setups and take downs, deployments
Qualifications
-advanced knowledge of OSX, CentOS/RHEL, Fedora including software management and deployment
-advanced knowledge of and experience with networking concepts and network implementations, including routing, VLANs, firewalls, traffic inspection
-advanced knowledge of DNS, LDAP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSH, RDP and other common protocols
-proactive, curious, energetic, troubleshooter
-strong desire and ability to learn and apply new knowledge and techniques
-able to lift a server or other similarly weighted item from time to time, independently
-extremely proficient with gnu/linux rpm-based distributions
-knowledge of apache httpd virtual hosts files
-ability to lead in advanced troubleshooting without guidance for hardware, software and networking issues
-advanced knowledge of hardware RAID, software RAID, lvm, ext3/4, NFS, CIFS/SMB, AFP
-advanced knowledge of hardware including RAID cards, clustered storage such as equallogic, sun fire, isilon or avamar
-advanced knowledge of network troubleshooting techniques using nmap, tcpdump, wireshark, iperf, iptraf, nettop, traceroute, etc
-advanced knowledge of linux network commands including NetworkManager, host, nslookup, dig, ifconfig, ip, route, netstat, ping, iptables, etc
-solid understanding of packet flow, tcp and udp transmissions
-advanced knowledge of sysv, init scripts and the startup and login process for linux and osx systems
-advanced knowledge of virtualization concepts and implementations
-knowledge of rpm repository mirroring and rpmbuild, for custom repos
-advancecd knowledge of security concepts ranging from file permissions to best practices and backdoor prevention
-knowledge of VPN technologies including site-to-site VPN tunnels
Pluses
-advanced knowledge of xenserver administration, including p2v
-knowledge of openldap or opendirectory
-knowledge of systemd
-familiar with visual effects shops, pipelines or similar
-experience with bluecoat systems or other hardware ssl proxy web filters
-wireless networking experience
-video card experience (drivers, troubleshooting, Xorg, etc)
-puppet management system knowledge
-mcollective knowledge
-cobbler knowledge
-fortigate/fortiap experience
-procurve experience
What we look for
- strong work ethic
- positive attitude
- relentless attention to detail
- strong problem solving and communication skills
- excellent time management skills
- desire to learn and innovate
Pluses
- Los Angeles area residents
- 2+ years feature film experience preferred
- program or script experience in any language(s)
Online applications should include
- cover letter
- resume
- reel breakdown
- link to online reel/portfolio
Or snail mail as a Quicktime file on data DVD to:
Attn: Recruiting [position]
Luma Pictures
1424 2nd St
Santa Monica CA 90401


