February 1, 2010

Game Company looking for a Cinematic Artist & Video Intern

Filed under: Media Internships Program News, Northern California Internships — Sean Mitchell @ 10:08 am

Gaming company looking for a talented and promising Cinematic Artist Intern and Video Editor to assist the art team in creating compelling in-game cutscenes in Telltale’s proprietary tool. The ideal candidate should have a strong sense of composition, timing and editing as well as a good understanding of storytelling, acting and cinematography.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Create compelling cutscenes and interactive dialogs with excellent pacing, acting, and timing using animation libraries.
- Communicate with Designers and Leads to improve readability of visual storytelling.
- Set up cameras and actor staging.
- Balance quality with efficiency when working under tight deadlines.
- Follow and maintain pipelines and technical requirements.
- Work with designers and art director to establish continuity of the story with gameplay.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Essential verbal and written communication skills.
- Good understanding of acting basics including posing and timing.
- Good knowledge of cinematography and editing.
- Self motivated team player.
- Ability to quickly learn new software.
- Technical problem solving.
- Excellent communication with interpersonal skills.
- Quick to adapt to company proprietary software.

ADDITIONAL PREFERRED SKILLS
- Passion for making adventure games.
- Experience with character and camera animation in Maya.
- Knowledge of Maya
- Experience working in the video games industry.

NOTE this is a PAID INTERNSHIP, compensation ranges from $13-$20 an hour depending on experience.

*We are also looking for a Video Editor which compensation is more of an entry/intern level compensation is $10 an hour.
Intern Description will be posted soon.

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