Candidates will have a strong background in compositing, roto/paint, tracking, and matte painting. They will have a detailed working knowledge of Nuke and photoshop and experience compositing 3d passes as well as integrating live action and 3D animation. They also need experience managing teams of compositors to meet production schedules. Any additional experience in film production, 2d/3d graphics or scripting would also be advantageous.

Responsible for:

- managing 2d workflow across all films

- developing standards for optimizing the pipeline

- training new compositors in these standards

- roto/paint/compositing work on various films

- working with our producers and studio manager in scoping, scheduling and budgeting projects

- assembling teams of compositors and then leading and working on projects as they progress through the studio

Required skills

- team management/coordination

- roto/paint

- compositing of 3d passes as well as film/greenscreen

Required software

- Nuke

- Photoshop

- Boujou or other 3d tracking software

Additional Bonus Skills

- Boujou

- after effects / motion graphics skills

- shoot experience

- 3d skills

- scripting

- any other knowledge of the tools in our pipeline

All CV’s in the form of an email with links to showreel and a break down of shots

andrew.newman@squintopera.com

Creative Visual Artist - 3D Studio Max

We are still looking for applicants to fill this role. Candidates need to have at least three years experience using 3D Studio Max and be confident in Photoshop, with knowledge of Vray and of compositing programs such as Fusion/Nuke.

Motion Graphics Artist

Applicants need to have at least three years experience using Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects. We are looking for artists with a good eye who can bring their own ideas to the work. An interest in film and architecture is essential, whilst an ability to read architectural plans would be of great benefit.

Digital Matte Painter/Photoshop Artist

We require a Digital Matte Painter responsible for painting/creating photorealistic digital images then applying those images to geometry in a 2D or 3D environment with consistent and seamless results. The Matte Painter must be highly experienced in Photoshop, and of the various proprietary software programs utilised in CG work and principally, Photoshop image manipulation. Working knowledge of compositing packages are a welcome addition.

For all positions please send examples of your work via email to:

andrew@squintopera.com

Please send the files as one or all of the following:
PDF/Images attached to the email no bigger than 20mb or a link to your website/showreel
Alternatively you can post your portfolio of work to:

Squint Opera
33 Parkgate Road
London
SW11 4NP

CityVision have invited us to talk at their event later this month in Rome. Jules Coke will be giving a lecture on the event’s theme ‘I Have Seen The Future’ on Friday 17th February, 18.30 at the Macro Museum, via Nizza 138.

‘CityVision is a forum for investigating the contemporary city through the lense of its’ future image. By means of competitions, installations, and exhibitions of visionary architectural creation, CityVision strives to be a catalyst for local governments to facilitate the development of young architects and designer entering the workforce. Our goal is to promote and augment critical advanced practices, often including emerging ideas generated in academia and professional studies worldwide. It is a means to explore the potential reality and future of planning, architecture, and design practice through information exchange, events, and projects.’

To find out more about this event please click here.

Co-Director Nick Taylor is due to deliver a talk on Tuesday 7th Feb at the Imagina Architecture and Urbanism conference.

A wide range of rendering styles have been introduced since the advent of 3D images, but it is the way in which they are received and interpreted by their target audience that varies the most.
While the creators of these images believed that hyperrealism, realism, dream-like and cartoon-like approaches could help and encourage an audience to understand a project, it is clear that virtual imaging, like many other forms of representation, is currently hampered by a general lack of awareness of the design process.

How can this situation be redressed, so that there can be balanced dialogue between designers and contractors? What types of graphics will we see and use most over the next few years?
Is there a risk of confusion between special effects as used in the cinema industry and images produced for the architectural sector? Ultimately, one key issue remains - who should use and benefit from 3D virtual imaging and why should it be used?

Nick’s talk will begin at 10:30am at Imagina, Monaco.

Nick receiving the Urbanism and Landscape Award at Imagina 2011.

We’ll be at MIPIM in March and looking to meet like-minded built environment professionals. Reacting to client requirements, we have extended our services as a content and communications agency for brands and the built environment. We now provide a full service design and digital production capability.

This new integrated offer allows our clients to work with a single agency to look after content across all channels and platforms which is effective, efficient and resourceful.

We will be installing a digital perspex model built as part of a commission for the London Development Agency. The model is controlled by an i-Pad and explores the development around the Royal Docks in London.

MIPIM will take place in Cannes from 6th - 9th March 2012.

We have a great free programme of talks at Doodle - starting tonight with a talk about everything under London - by Sub Brit’s Andrew Smith. Follow @thedoodlebar for updates about future events.

Wednesday 2^nd November 7pm for 7.30pm: A talk about Underground London by Subterranea Brittanica?s Andrew Smith

Veteran underground explorer Andrew Smith will be sharing his 20 years of experience exploring London’s disused tube stations, secret bunkers, hidden telephone exchanges. He will give us an insight into what is really beneath our feet as we go about the streets of London. www.subbrit.org.uk

Wednesday 9^th November 7pm for 7.30pm: A talk about Aphrodisiac Plants by Professor Peter Houghton

Professor Houghton was Professor in Pharmacognosy at Kings College London, is an Honorary Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Houghton will be dispatching his wealth of knowledge and wisdom in this lecture about Aphrodisiac Plants from around the world.

Wednesday16^th November 7pm for 7.30pm: A talk by Artist & Taxidermist Charlie Tuesday Gates

Charlie Tuesday Gates’ work explores the subconscious memories of a very strange and uncanny childhood. After teaching herself D.I.Y taxidermy Gates brought this seemingly dark art to the stage through sculpture, live demonstrations and performances. For this lecture Gates will be showing a selection of her work and talking about her inspirations. charlietuesdaygates.blogspot.com

Wednesday 23^rd November 7pm for 7.30pm: A talk by digital Creative Director Daljit Singh

Daljit Singh is Exec Creative Director and founder of Conran Singh, Conran’s first venture into digital design. Previously Daljit founded Digit, one of the world’s longest established digital agencies which built its reputation on vigorously explored notions of simple-human-interaction, connecting people through technology.

Daljit will look into his magic crystal ball and catapult us into the world of the future through the power of words and numbers and the occasional chart and image. From the obsession behind today’s clicks, visits, likes, and hits to the truth behind data, stats, buzzwords and language hacks. This is a talk that takes you behind the magic curtain, separates the bloggers from the blaggers and tells you how it is… how it was and how it will be. www.daljitsingh.com

Wednesday 30^th November 7pm for 7.30pm: A talk about London?s Lost Rivers by Tom Bolton

Bolton is a researcher and writer, specialising in the culture and history of London. His latest book London’s Lost Rivers: A Walker’s Guide is an evocative, witty and engaging text about how this ancient city was built around rivers other than the Thames ? traces of these still remain for those who know where to look. Bolton’s talk will outline routes of eight lost rivers with the history of each river’s route, origin and decline ? a secret network that spreads across the city, from picturesque Hampstead in the North to the hidden suburbs of South London and beneath some of London?s most iconic and historic sites. These London pasts are brought to vivid life, populated by characters both famous and infamous, including politicians, forgers, actors, architects, athletes, monarchs and murderers.

Bolton is a researcher and writer, specialising in the culture and history of London.

Wednesday 7th December 7pm for 7.30pm: A talk about Edible Architecture by Food Historian Gillian Riley

Gillian Riley studied History at Cambridge and then moved to Italy via London to pursue a typography career. Greed and curiosity about Italian food eclipsed type though to her delight many epigraphical and calligraphical heroes turned up at the dinner tables of popes and princes: Mantegna squeezing lemons over trout on the shores of Lake Garda; Caravaggio chucking a plate of artichokes at the head of an insolent waiter; Martino, the greatest cook of all, whose recipes were written out by Bartolomeo Sanvito, the greatest scribe of his time; and Bernini designing architectural table decorations for papal banquets. This lecture will focus on historical architectural food sculptures and experiences across Europe.

Squint/Opera is delighted to announce the opening of Doodle Bar v2.0. The space on the banks of the Thames has been spruced up by Will Alsops architecture firm All and has retained the industrial charm of its former life as a Victorian dairy and tile emporium. We welcome back all professional scribblers and aspiring doodlers looking to enjoy a leisurely scrawl over the walls, over a drink or a bite to eat.

The bar is set against the backdrop of Testbed1  a dramatic, large and versatile arts and events space for creative innovation, ideas and experimentation.

Street Kitchen, the acclaimed food truck has chosen a space next door to the bar for its house kitchen so we can offer all round sustenance: art + food. Their popular bistro dishes will feature on our menu 6 days per week and well offer top notch charcuterie and cheeses at all times. We are shaping up our own menu of very popular hot dishes to extend the menu and see everyone through the winter months.

We have planned a rich and compelling programme of free events to bolster the creative community in this corner of Battersea. Confirmed talks for winter include: Subterranea Brittanica, Aphrodisiac Plants, a taxidermist sculptor, the future of digital, Londons Lost Rivers and Edible Architecture from the 1500s across Europe. Please scroll down for details.

www.thedoodlebar.com will go live towards the end of the month with a comprehensive list of all our events.

Doodle Bar, 33 Parkgate Road(Battersea(London SW11. @thedoodlebar

Squint/Opera is proud and excited to unveil Doodle Bar v2.0 - come along for a drink and a scribble. We made some pumpkins for last nights opening - check out the talent! We’ll post some photos of the space next week.

www.thedoodlebar.com

Fooch Chi Sung heads up Squint/Opera’s Australia studio and will hold a keynote lecture at the Arup Design School in Melbourne on 22nd October. Each year Arup runs an internal design school to invigorate and introduce alternative ways of thinking.

Squint is showcasing it’s work at Pause Fest this coming November. The programme is an amalgamation of cultural, creative and commercial work right across the global digital industry.

Pause Fest, Melbourne 7-13th November.

Squint Opera Interactive work at Citiscape Abu Dhabi 2011 from squintopera on Vimeo.

Squint exhibited at three stands at the 2011 Cityscape, including two touch screen interactive projects for Mubadala and Adach, and a large-scale projection for the Urban Planning Council.

Squint/Opera are exhibiting work at this year’s Cityscape event. Projects include a 5 minute audio visual show, featuring a 3d projection mapped onto a model measuring 25 x 17m, and presentation film at the Urban Planning Council stand.

Squint is also exhibiting at the Mubadala stand, which includes a film describing ground-breaking infrastructure that defines Sowwah Island. This stand also features a 65″ interactive touch screen model, allowing the user to navigate various aspects of the Island.

Located at the Adach stand, Squint have completed a touch screen interactive display of the Al Ain Oasis development and restoration. In this real-time interactive, the user steers through a photo real environment to discover what the future holds for this historic site.

Cityscape is open from 17 - 20 April 2011, between 10:00 - 19:00 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.

Behind the scenes at the ‘Sowwah Island’ shoot.

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Squint/Opera’s images have been released throughout the press as part of West Ham’s bid to take over the Olympic Stadium post 2012.

To view more about the project click here.

Too see coverage by the BBC click here.

Squint/Opera is proud to announce that Stonehenge has won an Imagina Award in the Urbanism and Landscape category. The film sets out a proposal to improve the setting of Stonehenge, rethinking the ways it is experienced by tens of thousands of visitors every month.

To view more images click here.