Responsibilities

• Compositing of both digital and live action elements to create groundbreaking visual effects shots for blockbuster films
• Collaborate with fellow artist and supervisors to meet challenging production deadlines in a positive work environment

Qualifications

• Must be well versed Nuke (background with Shake considered a plus)
• Should have a good understanding of 3d multi-pass rendering techniques and colorspace concepts
• Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines
• An understanding of stereo (3D) and anamorphic compositing in Nuke
• Artists must be able to take direction and work in a team focused environment, good communication skills are a must
• Relocation assistance may be available subject to negotiation

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.

Responsibilities

QUALIFICATIONS:
- Traditional art skills
- Traditional sketching skills
- Storyboarding and previz are a plus!

Responsibilities

• Coordinate various departments (Asset / Anim / Comp / Lite / FX / etc)
• Review all incoming notes for department relevance and distribute as needed
• Track/manage notes, receivables, artist tasks and assignments
• Walk the floor, gather artist needs, follow up on action items
• Manage render farm priorities
• Evaluate incoming media and discuss/qualify with supervisors
• Take notes at internal and client meetings
• Set up Cinesync sessions

Qualifications

• Strong work ethic 
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Solid time-management skills and ability to multi-task
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills
• Positive attitude and effective interpersonal skills: authoritative but approachable
• Proactive with inferring and communicating priorities from available information
• Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines

Pluses

• Understand basic compositing and editorial concepts (After Effects / Final Cut / Avid)
• Experience with databases (File Maker / Sequel Pro)
• Mastery of OSX environment
• Experience with budgeting, breakdowns

Responsibilities

• Lighting look development for integration of CG elements into Live Action
• Lighting look development for full CG shots
• Creation of tools and scripts to facilitate workflow
• Develop methodologies for reduction of render time and improving quality of results

Qualifications

• Artist must know Maya and MentalRay extremely well
• Understanding multi pass 3D compositing required
• Knowledge of Renderman or Air 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

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

Responsibilities

• Lighting look development for integration of CG elements into Live Action
• Lighting look development for full CG shots
• Look development for CG assets, including construction of clean and efficient shading networks
• Creation of tools and scripts to facilitate workflow
• Mentoring junior artists and helping them troubleshoot shots
• Develop methodologies for reduction of render time and improving quality of results

Qualifications

• Artist must be proficient in Maya, as well as all modern lighting and rendering techniques
• Knowledge of Arnold, V-ray or equivalent renderer is necessary
• Understanding multi-pass rendering and compositing is required
• Artists must be able to take direction and work in a team-focused environment, good communication skills are a must
• Must possess strong time management skills and be 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

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

Responsibilities

• Manage receipts and deliveries via FTP, hard drives and couriers
• Convert large volumes of media to various formats, codecs, resolutions
• Log incoming and outgoing files
• Track editorial issues such as shot lengths, handles, scan requests

Qualifications

• Strong work ethic
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Comfortable with spreadsheets
• Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines

Pluses

• Understand basic compositing and editorial concepts (After Effects / Final Cut / Avid)
• Basic command line knowledge
• Familiarity with various media file formats/codecs

Responsibilities

• Work with animation and modeling departments to ensure accurate camera track
• Problem solve and predict potential problems related to scene setup and continuity
• Accurately reconstruct 3D geometry based on photographs

Qualifications

• Mastery of core 3D principles rotation, translation, scale, gimbal lock
• Thorough understanding of 3D camera principles lenses, distortion, parallax, camera projection, overscan, cornerpins
• Artist must be well versed with Maya, Boujou, Matchmover, Syntheyes, PFTrack or other tracking software
• Artists must be able to take direction and work in a team oriented environment, great communication skills are a must

Responsibilities

• Lighting look development for photo-real CG vehicles
• Creation of tools and scripts to facilitate workflow
• Develop methodologies for reduction of render time and improving quality of results
• Meticulous scene organization

Qualifications

• Artist must be proficient in Maya, as well as all modern lighting and rendering techniques
• Artist must be able to troubleshoot and remodel high resolution scan geometry, as well as possess solid UV layout skills
• Basic knowledge of Nuke and compositing techniques.
• Knowledge of Arnold, V-ray or equivalent renderer is necessary
• Python and or MEL scripting a plus
• Understanding multi pass 3D compositing is required
• Artists must be able to take direction and work in a team-focused environment, good communication skills are a must
• Must possess strong time management skills and be 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

We are looking for an exceptional freelance web developer to work on site for roughly 2-6 months. You will join a small team of developers to continue development on a proprietary project management system for visual effects production. You will add new features and services and fine tune existing ones using Javascript/jQuery UIs that work with a PHP/JSON backend.

Responsibilities

• contribute to development and maintenance of a proprietary project management system
• create various Javascript/AJAX rich tools from spec
• work with existing PHP/JSON backends

Qualifications

• extensive PHP / LAMP development  experience
• experience with Zend Framework or any other MVC framework
• experience with Javascript,  jQuery and jQuery UI
• demonstrated understanding of good UX principles and design aesthetics
• python experience is a plus
• solid work ethic
• positive attitude
• relentless attention to detail
• strong problem solving and communication skills
• excellent with time management