Senior Artist-Compositing

At MPC London, we strive to grow a little more every day. We’re creative, passionate, and full of imaginative ideas. We foster a supportive studio environment where team members look out for each other, prioritize well-being, and act with responsibility, honesty, and integrity. 

We celebrate diversity and the strength it brings to us and our creative process, ensuring we deliver the most exceptional work on time. True collaboration and open communication are core values at every level of our organization, as they enable us to learn, grow and create outstanding moments for our clients.  

Join us to be part of a dynamic team that values mutual support, creativity, and excellence. 

A Mid Compositor is responsible for the cohesive finaling of shot work for visual effects projects. Working with Supervision and upstream departments, they integrate and manage render elements, live-action footage, and other assets to create creative and technically excellent final images. 

Mid Compositors help with additional tasks related to compositing, such as color correction, keying, prep and roto work, ensuring the final shot meets the project's visual standards. 

Key Responsibilities:

Tips: Starts the responsibility with verbs of “action” (Create, Implement, Collaborate, Communicate, Assign, Drive, Help, Follow, Monitor, Provide…etc) 

           No more than 8 tasks 

• Integration of 2D and 3D elements into a cohesive image.   

• Responsible for the timely execution of shot tasks and the delivering them on schedule. 

• Working with Seniors & Leads to ensure shots work in context and matches the brief requirements. 

• Presenting your work in daily sessions for feedback & creative discussion. 

• Collaborate closely with upstream departments to ensure the highest level of shot finishing.  

• Seamless integration of upstream work with live-action plates.   

• Actively communicates with show supervision and production teams to flag issues and update on progress. 

• Imbuing your work with the highest technical and creative standards. 

• Perform any other duties as assigned by your Manager or a Key Business Relationship. 

Measure of Success: 

• Ability to deliver tasks, to quality, on time. 

• Embody our values. 

Technical & Soft Skills: 

• Basic knowledge: sufficient familiarity with the subject to know basic principles and terminology and to understand and solve simple problems. 
• Proficient knowledge: sufficient knowledge of a field to perform most work in normal situations. The work calls for comprehension of standard situations and includes knowledge of most of the significant aspects of the subject. 
• Advanced knowledge: advanced knowledge of the subject matter. The work calls for sufficient comprehension of the subject area to solve unusual as well as common work problems, to be able to advise on technical matters and to serve as a resource on the subject for others in the organization. 
• Expert knowledge: requires complete mastery and understanding of the subject. This term should be used sparingly and only for unusually exacting or responsible positions required to originate hypotheses, concepts, or approaches. 

Technical &Soft Skills:

• Required previous experience in a VFX environment.
• Proficient knowledge of grading, keying, CG comping and element Intergrations to shot finishing level. 
• Proficient knowledge of art and photography & colour.  

Preferred Software knowledge :

• Nuke.
• Previous experience in a linux-based environment 
• A familiarity with modern VFX pipelines.