Prep Artist

PhilmCGI is actively looking for Paint/ Prep Artists who work with Compositors to help them integrate all elements of an image, including CG and live action, to create film visual effects shots. They remove unwanted items from plates, such as; wires, rigs, crew, mocap people and tracking markers. They clean up the backgrounds of live action-footage ready for the effects to be layered onto it by the compositor.

Job Description

- Frame by frame painting (sequence painting) for shots having source frames available to paint from.
- Remove markers using various comp and painting techniques. Like 2d transform, channel shuffle, pxf filler.
- Cleaning up of seams on the blue/green screen for the compositing team helping them to pull keys.
- Color correction/grading to match the prepped area to the plate.
- Wire and rig removal for static/minimum camera movement of the character/Background.




- Removing a character/object/subject with available source using 3d projection, where movement or depth of camera is not much.
- Face marker removal, wrinkle removal/makeup prosthetic fixes.
- Creating clean plates, with help of reference plates provided and using 2d tracking.
- Recreation work, which can be done by 2d/planar tracking.
- Dust Bust
- Prosthetic cleanup
- Script organization, grain management.
- Rendering, making dailies and naming conventions.
- Should understand and evaluate prep needs and quality-check their work.

Qualifications

- In-depth Knowledge of NUKE.
- Sequence painting skills using Silhouette.
- Basic Knowledge of MAYA (importing tracks and mesh).

📌 Paint/ Prep Artist (Thrissur)
🏢 Philmcgi
📍 Thrissur