Freelance Senior Paint Artist

We create stunning visual effects for film and episodic projects. The way we work shapes the work we make.

What’s different about Outpost? 

We believe in making people matter at Outpost. We want to build a creative environment where everyone feels valued, treated with respect and able to make a positive difference every day. We’re ambitious and growing quickly but our focus remains on nurturing personal connections, supporting one another as well as making time to celebrate our collective successes. We’re always on the lookout for how we can do things better to enhance the experience of our team, our clients and the world around us.     

What's in it for you?

At Outpost you have the chance to make a valuable contribution, not only to the amazing high end episodic and film productions you’ll be working on, but also in developing the positive culture that we want to spread throughout the VFX community. 

You will have access to training through online training platforms as well as our own internal learning and development resources to enable you to continue to develop and hone your skills.  

You will also get to work alongside the incredibly talented, friendly, and genuine individuals that make up Outpost!  

As a Senior Paint artist, you will be responsible for delivering high quality shots in a quick and efficient manner. You will be working closely with Leads, Supervisors, and Compositors to deliver outstanding VFX. You should have a great eye for composition and color and be passionate about delivering the best-looking shots possible. We are expecting you to have a thorough knowledge of Nuke and Silhouette.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Paint out wires, rigs, crew, mocap people, tracking markers and any other unwanted items from plates, using various paint techniques both procedural and frame by frame.
• Integrate the generated patches or clean plates seamlessly to the plates matching color, saturation, black and white points, motion blur, defocus etc.
• Good Understanding of grain management
• Able to deal with paint artefacts, sharpness and color issues
• 2D Tracking and planar tracking in both Silhouette and Nuke
• Able to work with Camera and UV Projections in Nuke for procedural paint outs
• Able to handle complex tasks such as multilayer projection character recreation basic element comping
• Able to break shots down into individual components with little supervision
• Take ownership and responsibility of the paint task and proactively troubleshoot potential issues
• Coordinate with other artist on same shot by taking ownership of the shot 
• Understand feedback given by lead or supervisors
• Mentor and share knowledge with junior artist

What happens next? 

If you think Outpost sounds like a good fit for you, or you simply want to chat with someone about the role and our culture, get in touch today!

Equal opportunities

At Outpost we believe that our strength lies in our differences. These help us to take different perspectives, challenge norms and create a special environment based on mutual respect. Outpost is an equal opportunities employer. Employment with us is based on a person’s extraordinary talent and potential. No candidate will receive any less favourable treatment based on their age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual preference, or any other factor that has no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.