Software Developer – 2D Imaging and Nuke Tools

DNEG is looking for an experienced 2D Imaging and Nuke Tools Developer to design, build and deploy a variety of Nuke and stand-alone applications that enable new artistic capabilities, optimise workflows, and integrate into DNEG’s proprietary pipeline. This role requires close collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders and department heads whose teams rely on Nuke to achieve stunning photorealistic VFX content on a tight timeframe. Excellent communication and prior Nuke development experience in a VFX or film production studio is required for this role.

DNEG’s digital compositing department is home to a team of highly skilled artists who use cutting edge technology to combine photography and CG imagery into the final composite, the stunning photorealistic VFX content that viewers will see projected on cinema screens or streamed to their TVs. Compositing is a complex discipline, taking and manipulating a variety of animated and static image sequences that serve as inputs aside from in-camera photography and pure GCI. These other inputs include articulated holdouts generated by our team of rotoscope artists, highly detailed and realistic digital matte paintings produced by our DMP crew, and prepared plates where scratches, wires and rigs are painted out or otherwise erased by our specialist prep team. Finally, our Motion Graphics department creates a wide variety of dynamic animated visuals, including simulating futuristic or complex computer graphics displays within VFX shots, on-screen graphics overlays or stunning title sequences.

As a 2D Imaging and Nuke Plugins Developer you will be working in a small, global, yet tightly knit team to develop pipeline integration and automation scripts as well as image processing algorithms that enable new artist capabilities and workflow efficiencies. You will be working largely in Python and C++, to greatly expand the capability of Nuke, by providing tools for automating otherwise laborious, repetitive tasks and provide efficient and user friendly interfaces for importing assets, building and sharing compositing templates, publishing outputs and sharing image data across the global organisation. We also develop our own image processing algorithms to manipulate pixel data, for example to work with Deep data, and various AOVs to achieve a desired effect.