Today we are gonna look at a few more experienced roles in the industry. This usually would be the entry-level to a company as a junior and then you obviously can progress and become senior, lead… etc.
CONCEPT ARTIST
A concept artist is in charge of the creation and design of any asset, characters, environment and any related product that needs to be designed. Basically, everything that you see in a final production one of the first steps that have been done is usually the concept artist generating ideas and designs, so the team can decide which direction to follow.
MATTE PAINTER-ARTIST
This artist create painted representations of landscapes, sets, and other locations as backgrounds for scenes. This is done because it can be impossible to find a location like the one that you need or very difficult to record using digital or traditional techniques.
PREP/PAINT ARTIST
This role is dedicated to cleaning up backgrounds of live action-footage, preparing it for the effects to be layered onto it by the compositor. There are a lot of processes used to do this, they remove dust, scratches, sort out dropped frames, basically, anything unwanted is removed by prep artist.
COMPOSITING ARTIST 2D/3D
As I said on the previous role we talked, the prep artist removes anything unwanted from the shot, and the compositors are all the contrary. They have the job of adding and layering various elements in the shot. They work with other VFX departments to solve problems to release a photo-realistic final shot.