Senior 3D Designer/ Cinema 4D & Motion Designer - Sky Creative

  • Sky
  • Isleworth, Middlesex
  • Dec 07, 2022
Full time Advert / Media / Entertainment

Job Description

As a member of the Brand Studio within Sky Creative, you'll help drive look and feel of the Sky Brand across our broadcast channels, advertising, 360 campaigns, installations and digital communications. You will design and create high-end visual executions in a fast-paced broadcast environment.

What you'll do:

  • Modelling, texturing and animating high-end brand assets

  • Research and Development (RnD) plus style frame creation.

  • Close collaboration with the design teams, production and VFX teams

  • Creation of workflows for design toolkit rollouts

  • Designing of brand elements for toolkit rollouts

  • QC of Brand assets and their use across the business.

  • Compositing and animation of brand elements to broadcast standards including UHD, HDR formats.

  • Hands-on CGI for individual projects as a generalist, across all aspects of production. Including, but not limited to modelling, previs, animation, simulation, texturing, lighting and rendering using C4D & Redshift. (Knowledge of Houdini a plus

What you'll bring:

  • Expertise in general compositing principles. Ability to composite in either After Effects or Nuke.

  • Able to work within a VFX pipeline and adhere to workflows of a post-production environment

  • Demonstrative experience and knowledge of advanced 3D modeling and texturing for VFX

  • Lead teams internally. Detail Oriented, proactive, organized with great communication.

  • Technical skills: Advanced rendering and lighting skills in C4D but specifically in Redshift; Good Knowledge of X-Particles; Technical skills for R&D, (Xpresso & Python a plus); High level

  • Advanced knowledge of Cinema 4D, After Effects and combining these together for a design orientated workflow.

  • Experienced working in a design studio/agency or VFX environment

  • Delivering high-end 3D and design execution within a limited time frame for broadcast and/or film.

  • As well as having experience of leading projects you will have previous experience of working with brands.

Team Overview

Sky Creative is Sky's European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions, Broadcast Creative and Digital Design for multiple stakeholders across our European & US Markets.

We believe that an in-house agency is the best of both worlds. A great portfolio of work with unrivalled proximity to our clients, programme makers and commissioners alike. We are passionate about what we do and share first-hand in the success of the brands, shows and content we help create, promote and market.

We're committed to delivering brilliant creative, made by people that love what they do.

The Rewards:

There's a reason people can't stop talking about . Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

  • Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

  • A generous pension package

  • Private healthcare

  • Discounted mobile and broadband

  • Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There's also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we've been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we've committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We've also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don't just look at your CV. We're more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, So we're happy to discuss flexible working.

And we'll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.