Senior CGI Artist Lead

at  Hogarth Worldwide

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.
The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.
Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

DEPARTMENT SUMMARY

VFX is delivered across multiple disciplines, channels, clients and products. We create animated characters, full computer-generated car configurators with millions of variations, computer-generated food with AI backgrounds, photo-real, real-time environments, water simulations for 3D products, digital twins and much more.
The department includes lighters, modellers, animators, pipeline developers and producers in both onshore and offshore locations supporting global and local client needs.

REQUIREMENTS

• Use industry standard 3d software (Houdini/Max/v-ray) to light and render master-models from our automotive clients.
• Mastery of studio lighting using HDRi techniques as well as full HDRi environment lighting.
• Understand and work with our in-house pipe team to help with complex 3d and USD files to organize, render and output any content the client needs
• Be able to use Photoshop to a high standard to enhance the work created.
• Understand and follow all production workflows and procedures, ensuring all assets produced meet the required specification through quality checks.
• Have an exceptional eye for detail and good CGI generalist knowledge
• Understand and follow all production workflows and procedures, ensuring all rendered assets produced meet the required specification through quality checks.
• Be involved in improving production pipelines

• Creating exceptional visual content for automotive clients
• Mentoring other artists
• Communicating with clients and building strong relationships with partner agency Art Directors.
• Reviewing work and troubleshooting client requirements
• Be involved in improving production pipelines.