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We are looking for a phenomenal teammate to join our Digital Model Shop (DMS) team. The Junior Modeler is a unique role that contributes to the creation of production assets. The successful candidate will use a variety of modelling software, proprietary pipeline tools, and work under the supervision of Senior Artists, Leads or Model Supervisors. The position combines technical skills with aesthetic sensibilities to ensure high quality and technically accurate assets are delivered for use by production.

At ILM, a good idea is a good idea, regardless of where it comes from! Do you thrive in a creative environment? Do you enjoy sharing knowledge and learning from others? If you love art, technology, and movies, then this might be the role you’re looking for!

ILM strives to be an inclusive environment, and the DMS team embraces promising individuals with a variety backgrounds and experiences.

What You’ll Do
- Model work from art, scans, photography or just a verbal brief
- In shot corrective modelling for costume and other assets such as Robots or vehicles
- Maintain libraries for model and texture assets
- Perform quality control checks for assets built in house, and by external vendors
- Assist the DMS supervisors with any one-off tasks
- Gather reference when needed
- Manage your own time between working on multiple projects

What We’re Looking For
- Positive outlook, artistic and technical talent
- Strong sense of scale and proportion
- Good organisation and interpersonal skills
- Ability to tackle a delegated task with a minimum of supervision
- A demo reel demonstrating a strong understanding of model principles and artistic ability
- Experience and a firm grasp of Maya and Zbrush
- Curiosity about robots, vehicles, spaceships, architecture and how things mechanically work
- Traditional model building, texture abilities, and traditional art skills such as painting, drawing and sculpting are all nice to have

Salary: $70,000 - $85,000

ILM’s Technology teams develop the ground-breaking technology that our artists use to create dazzling visuals. ILM’s innovations have won 29 Scientific and Technical Academy Awards ®. Today, we are 80+ visually-minded software engineers, working side-by-side with over a thousand digital artists in a fast-paced, intensely collaborative, creatively-driven film production environment, across studios in San Francisco,Sydney, Vancouver, and Mumbai.

With over 40 years of experience, ILM is the best in the business, but we’re never content with the status quo. With a full slate of upcoming movies, we have the ambition to improve everything we do:
- Develop ever more powerful tools and production techniques that push the bounds of visual complexity and cinematic fidelity, and continue to create images no one has seen before.
- Improve our most powerful artist tools so they’re easier to learn and easier to use.
- Modernize our core infrastructure, and increase the throughput of our global compute and storage processes.

What You’ll Do:
- Manage the development roadmaps and projects for the systems engineering and systems administration teams
- Manage the process of gathering and prioritizing project requirements in collaboration with leadership and team members
- Partner with Technology and Production leadership to set project direction and translate production strategy into a development plan
- Define, develop, manage and document Program schedule/milestones, proactively drive project-related issues to appropriate resolution, and plan for contingencies due to production-related risks
- Provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance goals against technical constraints to negotiate release schedules
- Develop strong cross-functional relationships which enable the group to look forward and plan interdepartmental tasks without friction
- Manage stakeholder expectations throughout the development cycle
- Coordinate project progress through effective meetings, use of Jira and coordination with technology leadership
- Manage budgets for larger cross discipline programs and process for our Sydney studio

Education / Experience:
- You will have 8-10 years previous project management or production management experience in VFX production, gaming or software development
- You have practiced knowledge of project management methodologies and tools, ideally including experience managing Agile software development
- You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills and can get ideas acrossin a clear and concise manner

Personal Skills:
- Intuition: an intuitive understanding of the demands of a fast-paced, creatively-driven visual effects production environment.
- Collaboration: a readiness to trust others, be trustworthy, and play nice.
- Communication: an ability to express yourself concisely, a willingness to speak up, and a conviction to keep everyone informed of progress and issues.
- Empathy: an ability to listen intently and understand engineer and artist needs.
- Creativity: an insightful and analytical thinker, and a creative problem solver.

Salary: $130,000 - $140,000

Generalists create photo-real environments and landscapes and exhibit a strong foundation in photo-realistic, traditional, and digital art skills with an emphasis on landscapes. They work with live action footage, digital still photography, rendered computer graphic elements, and digital paint to create environments that are seamlessly integrated into assigned shotwork.

Successful candidates can model, texture, shade, light, look development and composite CG images or shots, however candidates will be considered if they demonstrate themselves to be exceptional in only one area, as long as they have some experience in all others and are willing to learn.

Primary Responsibilities
- Confidently uses artistic and technical skills to work on all aspects of CG images or shots
- Creates high quality computer graphics within a shot using a variety of software\ programs, and working under the general supervision of Senior Level Artists and Generalists
- Participates as a team member in determining various aesthetic solutions; provides feedback to other members of the production by attending dailies on a regular basis
- Expected to mentor Apprentice and Jr. Artists and must be able to assist them with their shots
- Work to meet defined milestones within a timeline
- Source suitable reference materials for required assets
- Attend dailies and participate in creative problem solving
- Creates original 2D and 3D content that may comprise part or all of an environment
- Create multiple types of mattes from simple to moderately difficult and allocates detail based on the shot and feedback
- Creates maps in 2D and sets up basic shaders for look development
- Creates basic lighting setups in complex shaders that look convincing and render efficiently

Education / Experience
- Degree or 3-5 years relevant experience (professional OR amateur) in one or more of the following fields: Computer Graphics, Fine Arts, Design or Photography

Required Skills / Technical Competencies
- Proven ability in one or more CG techniques, including modeling, texturing, shading, lighting, look development, or compositing OR Proven artistic ability in a non-CG field (impressive portfolio of figure drawing, landscape, animals, painting, composition,
perspective, etc.)
- High level of problem-solving or creative thinking skills
- Fluent in Photoshop
- Fluent in 3dsmax, Maya or similar
- Fluent in Vray or MRay or similar ray trace renderer
- Comparable software experience considered

Salary: $105,000 - $120,000

Industrial Light & Magic, founded in 1975 by George Lucas, has created some of the most iconic moments in motion picture history. From Star Wars to Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, The Avengers, theme park rides and interactive experiences, ILM
continues to expand the possibilities of what visual entertainment can be.

ILM’s Technology teams develop the ground-breaking technology that our artists use to create dazzling visuals. ILM’s innovations have won 29 Scientific and Technical Academy Awards . Today, we are 80+ visually-minded software engineers, working side-by-side with over a thousand digital artists in a fast-paced, intensely collaborative, creatively-driven film production environment, across studios in San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Vancouver, and Sydney. With over 40 years of experience, ILM is the best in the business, but we’re never content with the status quo. With a full slate of upcoming movies, we have the ambition to improve everything we do:

? Develop ever more powerful tools and production techniques that push the bounds of visual complexity and cinematic fidelity, and continue to create images no one has seen before.
? Improve our most powerful artist tools so they’re easier to learn and easier to use.
? Modernize our core infrastructure, and increase the throughput of our global compute and storage processes.

What You’ll Do:
? Manage the development roadmaps and projects for the systems engineering and systems administration teams
? Manage the process of gathering and prioritizing project requirements in collaboration with leadership and team members
? Partner with Technology and Production leadership to set project direction and translate production strategy into a development plan
? Define, develop, manage and document Program schedule/milestones, proactively drive project-related issues to appropriate resolution, and plan for contingencies due to production-related risks
? Provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance goals against technical constraints to negotiate release schedules
? Develop strong cross-functional relationships which enable the group to look forward and plan interdepartmental tasks without friction
? Manage stakeholder expectations throughout the development cycle
? Coordinate project progress through effective meetings, use of Jira and coordination with technology leadership
? Manage budgets for larger cross discipline programs and process for our Sydney studio

Education / Experience:
? You will have 8-10 years previous project management or production management experience in VFX production, gaming or software development
? You have practiced knowledge of project management methodologies and tools, ideally including experience managing Agile software development
? You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills and can get ideas across in a clear and concise manner

Personal Skills:
? Intuition: an intuitive understanding of the demands of a fast-paced, creatively-driven visual effects production environment.
? Collaboration: a readiness to trust others, be trustworthy, and play nice.
? Communication: an ability to express yourself concisely, a willingness to speak up, and a conviction to keep everyone informed of progress and issues.
? Empathy: an ability to listen intently and understand engineer and artist needs.
? Creativity: an insightful and analytical thinker, and a creative problem solver.

Salary Range: $130,000 - $140,000

ILM opened its Sydney studio in the winter of 2019. The youngest of all of the ILM studios, the Sydney studio leverages the expertise and technological know-how developed over 40 years at Industrial Light & Magic combined with the top artists and technicians in the region. Knowledge and culture flow freely between the company’s five studios and the global team shares tools and workflow allowing for seamless collaboration on all shared projects.

As we grow ILM Sydney, we are seeking a Lead Modeler to join the team and be a part of this exciting opportunity.
With an emphasis on anatomy and form, the Lead Modeler will create three-dimensional CG characters to be painted, enveloped and animated by the creature development team.

Primary Responsibilities:
? Create and build three-dimensional creatures for Animators and Technical Directors
? Design and create hero and background characters, props and objects, and add graphic elements such as color, textures, and other design elements
? Works with production team (Model and Texture Supervisors, Technical Directors and Animators) to determine the “look” for an object
? Collaborating with state-of-the art computer-graphics equipment and software to develop and create graphic designs for animated feature films
? Participate as a team member in developing animation elements and creating computer-graphic images for staging and character animation, and will collaborate with Animators and Animation Directors to develop the artistic approaches to deliver the
necessary effects, look and aesthetics required for each Character
? Participate as a team member in determining various design and technical solutions
? Research and design project-specific design applications by studying illustrations and photographs as reference materials to enhance the authenticity of the final product
? Arrange layout elements based upon available space, understanding of layout principles and aesthetic design concepts
? Acts as technical liaison of the discipline, taking direction from the Model Supervisor
? In absence of Model Supervisor acts as defacto Supervisor, working with production on scheduling and asset assignments
? In collaboration with Modeling Supervisor, will review the work of the asset team on a regular basis
? Attends all relevant meetings to promote effective communication throughout the production team

Required Skills / Technical Competencies:
? 3-5 years Zbrush, Maya, and facial development experience
? Understanding of UNIX is a necessity as to navigate through ILM’s production pipeline
? Familiarity with film and video post production techniques and with computer graphic techniques
? An understanding of the human form/anatomy and structure/silhouette in respect of modeling

Preferred Skills / Competencies:
? Portfolio demonstrating traditional artistic skills including illustration, and sculptural abilities a plus

Education / Experience:
? Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts or equivalent with a strong traditional art foundations: including but not limited to figure drawing, concept art and illustration.
? 5 - 8 years relevant experience (2-3 years prior experience as Model Lead)
? Previous experience working from 3D scans and/or 2D artwork
? Proven experience creating digital creatures or characters in a feature film or production
environment

Salary: $ 140,000 - $150,000

The youngest of all of the ILM studios, the Sydney studio leverages the expertise and technological know-how developed over 40 years at Industrial Light & Magic combined with the top artists and technicians in the region. Knowledge and culture flow freely between the company’s five studios and the global team shares tools and workflow allowing for seamless teamwork on all shared projects.

The Senior Effects Technical Directors are responsible for generating FX animation, procedural simulation, dynamic simulation, and particle and fluid systems for feature film visual effects. Responsibilities also include the lighting, rendering and basic compositing of those FX elements.

Responsibilities:
? Creates particle, pyro, fluid, rigid-body and/or procedural FX animation
? Look development, shading, lighting, rendering of final quality FX Elements
? Designs and implements setups, tools and techniques for shot and sequence based FX requirements
? Uses a variety of proprietary tools and commercial software such as Houdini and Nuke
? Compositing FX Elements for dailies and proof of concepts for downstream departments
? Troubleshooting and debugging technical and creative problems
? Mentoring other artists and setting the bar for quality, speed and efficiency.

Desired skills and experience:
? Advanced experience and knowledge with Houdini
? Basic experience with Nuke or other compositing software for presenting work in context
? Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in Computer Science, computer visualisation, or computer animation
? 8+ years of work experience required in feature film visual effects
? Demo reel demonstrating artistic and technical ability
? Strong team player and collaborator
? Strong communication and organisational skills
? Familiarity with pipeline issues and problem solving
? A good eye for detail, timing, and physics relating to physical simulations
? Basic knowledge of Linux.