Senior Previz Artist - Temp (SFD / Cinematics)
About The Position
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented Senior Previz Artist to assist our Cinematics team in creating the next generation of our award-winning cinematics! You should have experience previsualizing and supporting a director’s vision through appropriate use of staging, blocking, cameras, lenses, composition, motion, and editing. You are organized and creative, with the ability to solve problems efficiently. This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA. However, we understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore other possible options, including remote work arrangements. This is a 12-month temporary position.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in film / VFX / animation / game production as a previz or rough layout artist working on complex, high fidelity sequences and shots.
- Professional Maya experience.
- Proficient with animation blocking for previz and familiar with modeling, rigging, shading, etc.
- Strong cinematic knowledge.
- Instinctively understand cameras, lenses, composition, film language, and editing.
- Experience previsualizing shots from scratch without prior storyboards or visual reference.
- Ability to verbally pitch ideas clearly and concisely.
- Capable of growing through peer feedback and providing honest, constructive feedback to others.
- Understand the role of previz in production and the workings of linked production departments (modeling, rigging, final layout, animation, etc.).
Nice To Haves
- Understand the general themes and style of Blizzard games, cinematics, and franchises.
- Proficiency shooting with camera capture systems and processing resulting data.
- Capable of shooting well exposed and composed photos / videos in practical photography.
- Experience with Python or MEL scripting in Maya.
Responsibilities
- Create complex, beautifully composed shots that clearly depict story beats through staging, blocking, camera motion, and character performance.
- Collaborate with a director, supervisor, lead, and other creative stakeholders, incorporating their feedback into a cohesive visual.
- Provide solutions to creative problems and be capable of pitching ideas verbally.
- Communicate clearly with production staff and manage multiple production tasks simultaneously.
- Maintain technical cleanliness in all work.
- Take personal accountability for deliveries and proactively identify possible technical concerns.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Health savings account or health reimbursement account
- Healthcare spending accounts
- Dependent care spending accounts
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation
- Paid sick time
- Floating holidays
- Compassion and bereavement leaves
- Parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs
- Fitness programs
- Free and discounted games
- A variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
- Relocation assistance (if the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
