Notch/Motion Designer - Meptik
Role: Notch/Motion Designer
Department: Creative Services
Location: Flexible
Reports into: Senior Motion Designer
Type: Full Time
The Role:
Meptik is looking for an experienced, full-time Notch Designer to join our expanding team in Atlanta, GA.
The Notch Designer position will be responsible for creating 2D and 3D motion graphics using real-time rendering techniques, assisting with creative ideation, and supporting our marketing and sales teams in creating content to drive future business leads to the company. The successful candidate will be a confident self-starter with excellent communication skills and proven prior experience working in a creative environment.
Based on global project demand, interaction across other regions and time zones may be required to support the global team..
What you will do:
- Create 2D and 3D real-time motion graphic content using Notch
- Build real time content for complex canvases, including projection mapping
- Assist in conceptualization and storyboarding
- Assist with client projects, including ideation, content creation, on-site content deployment and integration with other client technologies
- Provide our marketing and sales teams with content to help drive future sales, knowledge of Adobe products is a bonus!
- Help to drive creative innovation and train the team
- Constantly seek to grow by learning new techniques and methods
- Solving technical problems during client technology integration
Skills
- An expert-level knowledge of Notch AND a 3D software such as Cinema4D OR Maya OR Blender (or similar)
- Experience with real-time software such as Unreal OR Unity OR TouchDesigner
- Experience building out real time content for non-standard surfaces
- A portfolio of relevant commercial work experience using Notch with strong 3D skills for Live Events such as Music Concerts (with a band rather than sole DJ graphics) OR Immersive Art Displays; focusing on Motion Design & Interactive Art
- An excellent eye for design and quality, combined with strong technical understanding of real-time workflows
- Passionate about all things interactive graphics - audio reactivity, sensors, Arduino, coding, working with technology, etc
Behaviours and Values
- Experience working autonomously, as part of a team AND directly with clients
- Ability to multitask and work effectively under changing priorities and project deadlines
- Detail-oriented
- Passionate to keep learning about design trends
- Willing to learn from others and teach the team around them
- Occasional travel to client site, primarily in the US (roughly bi-monthly visits)
About Meptik:
Meptik is the one-stop shop for bridging realities.
We help our clients build their next virtual production powerhouse, fuel it with stunning virtual sets, deliver in-camera visual effects on set, and create immersive audience experiences.
As one of the most experienced teams in the industry, we have the creative vision and, as part of Disguise, access to the latest Emmy-award-winning tech to help clients Upset Reality™. We’ve done it for big and small productions, corporate clients, major film studios, broadcasts, and live events.
Clients can work with us throughout their entire creative journey, or let us be part of their next visual masterpiece.
About disguise:
disguise sits at the heart of the most inspiring live and virtual experiences in the world, leading the market in building a software and hardware solution that designs, sequences and controls the most spectacular productions across film and TV, broadcast, live and corporate events.
Our award-winning xR workflow has enabled over 300 productions in the past 12 months alone, for music artists such as Katy Perry and Billie Eilish, broadcast TV channels like ITV and Eurosport, enterprise businesses like SAP and Siemens, educational institutions like the University of Michigan and notable film studios like Netflix and DNEG.
We partner closely with Epic Games, NVIDIA, Netflix and many more to further develop and democratize our virtual production solution and enable teams anywhere to create their best story with the most innovative tools.
With offices in London, LA, New York, Atlanta, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Auckland, Seoul and Tokyo, we are a fast-growing company that hires bright, creative, talented individuals across the world to push the boundaries of visual experiences and build lasting relationships with our community.
We were delighted to be recognised as one of the Financial Times’ top 1000 fastest growing businesses for 2021. Watch our showreel to learn more about the amazing projects powered by disguise
Meptik builds mind-blowing experiences from start to finish. With our mission to Upset Reality™, we marry the creative & technical to do more immersive storytelling, create unique visual environments, and engage audiences with something they’ve never seen before. And since every great project starts with a great brief, for Meptik, it was this: Hire great talent. Trust them. And leave the egos at the door.
- Growth opportunities | Our team is constantly growing and expanding into multiple locations. And as a disguise company, we are part of an even larger network with multiple teams across the globe.
- Team culture | We’ve cultivated a team of hardworking, humble, fun and incredibly talented, passionate individuals who bring out the best in each other and the unique projects they create.
- Become part of the future | At Meptik, we pride ourselves on doing things that haven’t been done before. When working with us, you become part of a forward-thinking, boundary-busting team.
- Industry & Community Leader | We’re continuously involved with local community chapters to train individuals on the future of content production.
All the realities. None of the B.S.
We take pride in building our business and establishing ourselves as leaders in the industry with a company culture that exemplifies our values in everything we do, from employee experience to customer relationships and every decision in between.
- No ego: we are the sum total of all of us and no one person is better than another
- Honest: do the right thing in every situation for each other and for our clients
- Passionate: about furthering our craft and dreaming of new frontiers
- Dedicated: to Meptik as a company and a culture
- Excellence: we strive to be the best in every area while always exhibiting professionalism