Environmental/Virtual Set Designer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Astucemedia is an international well-established organization offering turnkey creative and software solutions for innovative real-time data visualisation and various graphics offering for TV, museums and sport events. Our offering includes graphics for augmented reality, virtual sets, video walls, interactive graphics, full/partial-screen overlays for various digital platforms including television. With its proprietary Data Platform software engine Astucemedia established itself as a leader in various domains such as finance, sports and elections. Our clientele counting Disney/ABC News, NBC Universal, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, beIN Sports, NFL Network, BNN Bloomberg, CBC, Radio-Canada, Sky News Arabia, Al Arabiya, Dubai TV, The Media Majlis Museum rely on our expertise to deliver immersive experiences for Times Square, TV networks, sports venues, and museums. Our team consisting of talented media artists and software developers, is seeking new talents with passion, drive and innovative ideas!

Job Description

The Environmental/Virtual Set Designer will conceptualize photorealistic or abstract environments for various TV shows from news, sports, finance, weather, and politics, hi-tech and many other subjects.

When conceptualizing the designer must take into consideration cameras lenses, jib, studio size, lighting, type of the show and objectives to be virtual and the number of guests. The virtual set may incorporate physical elements like a floor, desk or chair and composed as mixed reality.

  • The Technical Artist must have a very strong understanding of lighting, shadowing, texturing and natural proportion of the architecture itself and also be able to execute it on various graphics platform or at least provide the necessary assets and techniques for the integration. The design should also take in considering the possibility of augmented Reality graphics within the virtual set.
  • In collaboration with the Client and Creative Director you will drive the delivery of quality of execution and also the look and feel of the environment
  • Work on multiple projects and have the ability to multitask
  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills
  • Be open to feedback, revisions and shifting priorities
  • Be organized, goal and detailed oriented
  • Be a Team Player

Qualifications

  • 3D Portfolio demonstrating broad appeal
  • 4+ years of experience in 3D or interactive design
  • Bachelor degree or academic background in architecture, interior design, art or relevant studies.
  • Have executed professional real and virtual set design examples to show in portfolio 
  • Architecture/interior design and photorealistic renderings
  • Modeling
  • Materials & Shaders
  • Lighting 
  • Substance Designer
  • Experience in a real-time graphics rendering
  • Should master some of the following graphics software: Cinema 4D, AutoCAD, Maya, 3D Studio Max, V-Ray, Rhino3D

ASSETS

  • Experience with one of the following softwares: Vizrt, Unreal, Unity, Ventuz, Zero Density, Pixotope
  • Data visualisation
  • Programming experience  ex C++, C#, Java etc..
  • Scripting experience  ex Vbscsript, Javascript, Python, Ruby etc..
  • Motion graphics
  • Interactive graphics
  • Experience with tracking system calibration like Stype, Ncam, Mo-Sys, Motion Analysis etc…

Additional Information

  • Competitive salary 
  • RRSP matching
  • Travel premiums 
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Regular team activities
  • Located in the Old Port with a startup vibe (casual dress code, espresso machine, Foosball and gadgets)
  • International opportunities