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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Pause Fest, Melbourne 7-13th November.