Lead Nuke Compositor

We are seeking an experienced Lead Nuke Compositor to join our award-winning Film and Episodic team full-time. You will work alongside top VFX professionals in a dynamic studio environment. You will utilise your expert Nuke skills and creativity to execute compositing for commercials and long-form projects.

Celebrating 20 years, we are a team of Emmy-winning creative artists, technicians, producers and problem solvers who use post-production as their toolbox. Working closely with clients in the advertising, film, TV and music industries, we provide a full-service post-production and VFX offering including high-end colour grading, 2D & 3D visual effects, shoot supervision, animation, design, direction and concept. At Freefolk, we're a tight-knit community and proud of both our reputation of doing great work but also being a great place to work.

Description

• Responsible for leading and creating high-quality digital composites and visual effects for feature films and television whilst also supervising junior artists and collaborating with the team as a whole.
• Closely work with VFX Supervisors and 2D Supervisors to composite the numerous elements that complete a VFX shot and implement compositing tasks based on that supervision.
• Create master scripts and distribute shots to appropriate artists.
• Seamlessly integrate all layers/elements of a shot with a deep understanding of Keying, tracking, 3D render integration, look development and shot finaling.
• Strong sense of colour grading and a good understanding of colour-space procedures.
• Dictate shot methodology for sequence work, keeping up to date with compositing software and developing methodologies.
• Follow production process, developing creative approaches and problem-solving.
• Proficient in using 2.5d approaches, projections, and using 3D environments within Nuke
• Thorough understanding of compositing multi-channel lighting passes and how each channel contributes to the final image
• Work in partnership with lighters and other compositors to ensure shots are delivered to the very highest standard

Requirements

• Ideally minimum 4 years of experience in the film industry
• Mastery of Nuke
• Expert knowledge of compositing as well as integration of 3D elements into plates
• Experience using multi-pass CG elements
• Strong artistic skills and meticulous attention to detail
• This person must be able to work hybrid between home and our brand new East London office

Why join Freefolk?

• Award winning team that work across film, tv and commercial projects.
• Hybrid working to maintain work/life balance as much as possible
• Drinks on Thursdays
• Employee birthday celebrations
• Summer sports day
• Pub quizzes and other socials throughout the year
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Breakfast and snacks in the office

Applications

• To apply email jobs.ldn@freefolk.com and ensure your showreel/website is linked to your CV
• Include 'Lead Nuke Compositor' in the subject of the email.
• Only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Freefolk are hiring a talented Asset Artist to join our Film and Episodic team on an exciting new project starting soon! We operate a hybrid working model in our brand new East London office, but are open to candidates based remotely in Europe also.

Celebrating 20 years, we are a team of Emmy-winning creative artists, technicians, producers and problem solvers who use post-production as their toolbox. Working closely with clients in the advertising, film, TV and music industries, we provide a full-service post-production and VFX offering including high-end colour grading, 2D & 3D visual effects, shoot supervision, animation, design, direction and concept. At Freefolk, we're a tight-knit community and proud of both our reputation of doing great work but also being a great place to work.

Responsibilities:

• Creating models from a brief or reference material provided these can be a mixture of organic or hard surface objects
• Provide efficient UV maps on the models as required for the project
• Create textures for assets to specifications required
• Create shaders for assets in lookdev
• Present to the asset to leads and supervisors for reviews
• Staying on schedule and meeting set deadlines while maintaining the highest levels of quality.
• Continue to become familiar with new tools, software, data and other related technology

Essential Skills

• Strong polygonal subdivision modelling skills
• Good knowledge of Maya and the Arnold Renderer / Redshift
• Knowledge of zbrush / mudbox desirable
• Excellent knowledge of texturing software Mari/Photoshop/ Substance
• Must have a strong artistic and visual sense of composition, light and colour.
• Basic knowledge of Nuke Compositing
• Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills
• Creative problem-solving and attention to detail
• Able to work well under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining high-quality results

Why Join Freefolk?

• Hybrid working
• Drinks on Fridays
• Employee birthday celebrations
• Summer Sports Days
• Cycle to work scheme
• Breakfast and snacks in the office
• Pub quizzes and socials throughout the year

Applications:

• To apply email jobs.ldn@freefolk.com and ensure your showreel/website is linked to your CV
• Include ‘Asset Artist’ in the subject of the email.
• Only qualified applicants will be contacted.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Nuke Compositor for a 12-month contract to join our award-winning team for our commercial and longform projects. You will work alongside top VFX professionals in a dynamic studio environment. You will utilise your expert Nuke skills and creativity to execute compositing for commercials and long-form projects.

Celebrating 20 years, we are a team of Emmy-winning creative artists, technicians, producers and problem solvers who use post-production as their toolbox. Working closely with clients in the advertising, film, TV and music industries, we provide a full-service post-production and VFX offering including high-end colour grading, 2D & 3D visual effects, shoot supervision, animation, design, direction and concept. At Freefolk, we're a tight-knit community and proud of both our reputation of doing great work but also being a great place to work.

Description

• Responsible for leading and creating high-quality digital composites and visual effects for feature films and television
• Seamlessly integrate all the layers or elements of a shot, including live-action and computer graphics elements
• Strong sense of colour, colour-space and attention to detail
• Ability to do any required tracking (both 2D and 3D)
• Ability to work on complex shots
• Follow production process and develop creative approaches and problem-solving
• Proficient in using 2.5d approaches, projections, and using 3D environment within Nuke
• Work closely with VFX Supervisors and 2D Supervisors to composite the numerous elements that complete a VFX shot
• Work in partnership with lighters and other compositors to ensure shots are delivered to the very highest standard
• Thorough understanding of compositing multi-channel lighting passes and how each channel contributes to the final image

Requirements

• Ideally minimum 4 years experience in the film industry
• Mastery of Nuke
• Expert knowledge of compositing as well as integration of 3D elements into plates
• Experience using multi-pass CG elements
• Strong artistic skills and meticulous attention to detail
• This person must be able to work hybrid between home and our brand new East London office

Why join Freefolk?

• Hybrid working to maintain work/life balance as much as possible
• Drinks on Fridays
• Employee birthday celebrations
• Summer sports day
• Pub quizzes and other socials throughout the year
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Breakfast and snacks in the office

Applications

• To apply email jobs.ldn@freefolk.com and ensure your showreel/website is linked to your CV
• Include 'Senior Nuke Compositor' in the subject of the email
• Only qualified applicants will be contacted

We are looking for a talented FX TD to work within our highly regarded commercials department. We operate a hybrid working model in our brand new East London office, but are open to candidates based remotely in Europe also.

Celebrating 20 years, we are a team of Emmy-winning creative artists, technicians, producers and problem solvers who use post-production as their toolbox. Working closely with clients in the advertising, film, TV and music industries, we provide a full-service post-production and VFX offering including high-end colour grading, 2D & 3D visual effects, shoot supervision, animation, design, direction and concept. At Freefolk, we're a tight-knit community and proud of both our reputation of doing great work but also being a great place to work.

Description

• Creating particle fluid simulations or animations
• Applying lighting and shaders to produce the final rendered image or passing the simulation on to a Lighting Technical Director.

Requirements

• Excellent knowledge of Houdini with some knowledge of Maya
• A thorough understanding of the techniques and technologies relating to FX simulation and procedural animation
• Working knowledge of Mantra and/or HtoA
• Working knowledge of Nuke
• Strong Vex, python, hscript, and/or Mel scripting skills

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of other simulation packages
• Knowledge of the Houdini HDK
• Experience working on commercial projects
• Additional generalist skills across other 3D disciplines

Why join Freefolk?

• Hybrid working to maintain work/life balance as much as possible
• Drinks on Fridays
• Employee birthday celebrations
• Summer sports day
• Pub quizzes and other socials throughout the year
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Breakfast and snacks in the office

Applications

• We encourage applications from all backgrounds
• To apply email jobs.ldn@freefolk.com and ensure your showreel/website is linked to your CV
• Include 'Houdini FX TD' in the subject of the email
• Only qualified applicants will be contacted

We are seeking experienced Nuke Compositors to join our award-winning team for a commercial project. You will work alongside top VFX professionals in a dynamic studio environment. You will utilise your expert Nuke skills and creativity to execute compositing for commercials and long-form projects.

Celebrating 20 years, we are a team of Emmy-winning creative artists, technicians, producers and problem solvers who use post-production as their toolbox. Working closely with clients in the advertising, film, TV and music industries, we provide a full-service post-production and VFX offering including high-end colour grading, 2D & 3D visual effects, shoot supervision, animation, design, direction and concept. At Freefolk, we're a tight-knit community and proud of both our reputation of doing great work but also being a great place to work.

Description

• Responsible for creating high-quality digital composites and visual effects for feature films and television
• Seamlessly integrate all the layers or elements of a shot, including live-action and computer graphics elements
• Strong sense of colour, colour-space and attention to detail
• Ability to do any required tracking (both 2D and 3D)
• Ability to work on complex shots
• Follow production process and develop creative approaches and problem-solving
• Proficient in using 2.5d approaches, projections, and using 3D environment within Nuke
• Work closely with VFX Supervisors and 2D Supervisors to composite the numerous elements that complete a VFX shot
• Work in partnership with lighters and other compositors to ensure shots are delivered to the very highest standard
• Thorough understanding of compositing multi-channel lighting passes and how each channel contributes to the final image

Requirements

• Ideally minimum 2 years experience in the film industry
• Mastery of Nuke
• Expert knowledge of compositing as well as integration of 3D elements into plates
• Experience using multi-pass CG elements
• Strong artistic skills and meticulous attention to detail
• Within a 4-hour time zone of the UK

Why join Freefolk?

• Hybrid working to maintain work/life balance as much as possible
• Drinks on Fridays
• Employee birthday celebrations
• Summer sports day
• Pub quizzes and other socials throughout the year
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Breakfast and snacks in the office

Applications

• To apply email jobs.ldn@freefolk.com and ensure your showreel/website is linked to your CV
• Include 'Nuke Compositor' in the subject of the email
• Only qualified applicants will be contacted

We are looking for a talented Lead CG Generalist TD to work within our highly regarded  VFX Team in London. We operate a hybrid working model in our brand new East London office, but are open to candidates based remotely in Europe also.

Celebrating 20 years, we are a team of Emmy-winning creative artists, technicians, producers and problem solvers who use post-production as their toolbox. Working closely with clients in the advertising, film, TV and music industries, we provide a full-service post-production and VFX offering including high-end colour grading, 2D & 3D visual effects, shoot supervision, animation, design, direction and concept. At Freefolk, we're a tight-knit community and proud of both our reputation of doing great work but also being a great place to work.

Description 

• Lead and manage the 3d output across our Film and Episodic and Commercials departments
• Ability to execute a broad range of VFX tasks including modelling, texturing, lighting & rendering
• Ensure high-quality standard of work, delivered on time
• Prioritize and assign tasks to other team members and liaise with other team leads

Requirements

• Must have excellent knowledge of Maya and the Arnold Renderer
• At least 3 years of experience in this or a similar role
• Ability to work under tight deadlines
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as within a team
• Must have a good artistic and visual sense of composition, light and colour
• Excellent attention to detail and desire to deliver high-quality work

Nice to Have

• The ideal candidate would have experience in both commercial and long-form departments, but this isn’t essential
• Experience using Houdini
• Technical skills such as programming/scripting is a bonus (mel/python)

Why join Freefolk?

• Hybrid working to maintain work/life balance as much as possible
• Drinks on Fridays
• Employee birthday celebrations
• Summer sports day
• Pub quizzes and other socials throughout the year
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Breakfast and snacks in the office

Applications

• To apply email jobs.ldn@freefolk.com and ensure your showreel/website is linked to your CV
• Include 'Senior CG Generalist' in the subject of the email
• Only qualified applicants will be contacted

We are looking for Digital Matte Painters to work freelance within our Film and Episodic Department. We operate a hybrid working model in our brand new East London office, but are open to candidates based remotely in Europe also.

Celebrating 20 years, we are a team of Emmy-winning creative artists, technicians, producers and problem solvers who use post-production as their toolbox. Working closely with clients in the advertising, film, TV and music industries, we provide a full-service post-production and VFX offering including high-end colour grading, 2D & 3D visual effects, shoot supervision, animation, design, direction and concept. At Freefolk, we're a tight-knit community and proud of both our reputation of doing great work but also being a great place to work.

Description

• Ability to create photo-realistic digital matte paintings
• Good understanding of all aspects of the digi-matte workflow with a strong knowledge of how to combine 2D and 3D elements
• Experience working with shoot data including photographic and reference data, HDRIs and photogrammetry
• Assist with the development and look of a shot/sequence with the team
• Work with the CG and Compositing teams to ensure shots are delivered to a high standard
• Great communication skills.
• Ability to work to a schedule and meet deadlines whilst maintaining a high standard of work
• Regular communication with supervisor and production
• Keep up to date with new tools, software, data and other related technologies

Why join Freefolk?

• Hybrid working to maintain work/life balance as much as possible
• Drinks on Fridays
• Employee birthday celebrations
• Summer sports day
• Pub quizzes and other socials throughout the year
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Breakfast and snacks in the office

Applications

• We encourage applications from all backgrounds
• To apply email jobs.ldn@freefolk.com and ensure your showreel/website is linked to your CV
• Include 'Digital Matte Painter' in the subject of the email
• Only qualified applicants will be contacted