Assist senior visual effects (VFX) artists with the integration of live action footage and computer generated imagery to create images for TV and film.
Occupational Profile
Visual effects (VFX) is the term used to describe any imagery created, altered, or enhanced for moving media. They involve the integration of live-action footage and computer generated imagery to create images, which look realistic but would be dangerous, costly, or simply impossible to capture during live-action shooting.
Junior 2D artists are responsible for assisting the senior visual effects artists by preparing elements for use in the final VFX shot. This will include:
- creating mattes (masking areas of the live action footage) by roto-scoping (tracing around objects in the frames) and keying (isolating areas of blue/green screen in the live action footage) to allow all elements of the scene to be layered convincingly by a compositor
- removing erroneous objects within the live action footage, such as camera/lighting equipment and safety stunt wires and rigs
- producing simple composites (combining live action elements and computer generated imagery to create a shot that looks as if it was captured at the same time by a single camera). These simple composites could be for editorial purposes for test screenings of the film and will be replaced by an experienced compositor or they could be used in the final film for simple VFX shots.
Junior 2D artists utilize artistic knowledge in areas such as composition and color in addition to accepted industry standard compositing software and operating systems. They are expected to work well within a team and to be good communicators and problem solvers.
Upon successful completion of their apprenticeship the individual will typically progress to become a compositor and may eventually become a 2D or VFX Supervisor. Junior 2D artists will typically be employed by a range of small to large post-production companies servicing the British and International Film, Television and Commercial industries. They will usually be based in an office environment working on television commercials, television series and feature films.
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https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/media/1131/junior_2d_artist_-visual_effects.pdf
