Employment Opportunies @ MASS.ILLUSIONS

MASS.ILLUSIONS, a division of Manex Entertainment Ltd., is a
full-service visual effects facility, newly relocated at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, California. HotWired's Dream Jobs (21 May '97) and 3-D Design (June '97) think MASS.ILLUSIONS is a pretty cool place to work...We think so too.

This state-of-the-art studio brings together design, visualization,
live action and motion control photography,cgi, character animation, and
digital compositing. In 1995, during its first year of business, M.I. completed
the effects for Die Hard With a Vengeance and Judge Dredd. Recent productions
include the exciting aerial sequence for Eraser, as well as visual effects production and
consultation on Evita, Shadow Conspiracy, Event Horizon,
What Dreams May Come, and The Matrix.

Please read our submission guidelines before emailing us your resume.

Positions Open

UNIX Systems Administrator
Junior Programmer
Digital Technical Assistant
Digital Compositors
3-D Animators

UNIX Systems Administrator Posted 10/15/97
MASS.ILLUSIONS is currently seeking an experienced UNIX Systems Administrator for our Bay Area Digital Effects Facility. Responsibilities include Systems and Network setup, administration and troubleshooting. The proper candidate should have 3+ years of UNIX experience, and 2-3 years of Systems Administration.

Experience with any of the following would be of value:

Silicon Graphics IRIX and Computers
Digital UNIX; PC's (Windows NT) and Macintosh
Internet, Firewall, Routing, Ftp, WWW
DNS, NIS, NFS, TCP/IP
Programming/Scripting: perl, make, cshell, sed, awk...
Production experience
Computer Graphics and Rendering
Computer Science Degree

Applications on the network include: Alias, Cineon, Renderman, Softimage, MentalRay, ProDev, C++....

Reply by email to Steve Ginsberg (ginsberg@dnai.com).

Junior Programmer Posted 8/26/97
Call for more details: Kim Libreri +1 (510) 864 0587.

Digital Technical Assistant Posted 8/15/97
Entry level position. Duties will include: I/O support, back-ups and overall data management for MASS.ILLUSIONS' digital artists. Any background in computer science, art, design, film helpful. Person must be bright, flexible, and willing to work long hours.
Contact Information below.

Digital Compositors Posted 6/10/97
Required skills: Half a year minimum experience with Cineon; 1 year experience in film resolution compositing; 4 years experience in high-level compositing in any production arena with advanced software products or proprietary tools; Desire to learn 3-D procedural modeling, shader languages and 3-D compositing.
Contact Information below.

3-D Animators Posted 6/10/97
Required skills: 4 years minimum experience with advanced 3-D animation packages such as Alias, Dynamation, Houdini, or any proprietary package; 1 year minimum with Softimage; 2 years in editing shaders such as Renderman or MentalRay; Desire to learn high level compositing techniques.
Contact Information below.

Other positive qualities for all applicants:

An adventurous, technical and creative nature
A willingness and ability to work outside the scope of normal visual effects and work with propriatary software.
A deep interest in fine art -- specifically oil painting and/or a love of metaphysical imagery.
A interest in 3-D reality capture techniques.

The successful applicant will be working in a very creative R&D environment, with a small team of experienced compositors, animators, developers and artists to create approximately fifteen minutes of non-photoreal environments for a large feature to be released in the summer of 1998. Call or fax to set up an appointment with Mimi Medel or email Tony Bellotti (work@mass-illusion.com). MASS.ILLUSIONS: Telephone, +1 (510) 864 0587, Facsimile, +1 (510) 864 8170.

MASS.ILLUSIONS employs some of the finest visual effects artists and
technicians in the industry and serves an exclusive clientele in the feature
film, commercial, and special venue fields.

MASS.ILLUSIONS has ongoing requirements for all levels of visual effects
professionals. In particular, we are expanding our digital capabilities,
which include a unique mix of proprietary and turnkey software. As a result,
we have upcoming requirements for CGI animators, compositors and
production-oriented software developers. We invite you to submit your
current resume, show reel, or other supporting material to the attention of:

(for those seeking employment)
Tony Bellotti
Research/Administrative Assistant
work@mass-illusion.com

(for those seeking internships)
Maureen Blume
Administrative Assistant
internships@mass-illusion.com

MASS.ILLUSIONS
Naval Air Station,
1190 West Tower Avenue, Building 11,
Alameda, CA 94501 USA
Telephone: +1 (510) 864 0587
Facsimile: +1 (510) 864 8170

Submission Guidelines
Due to overwhelming response, we ask that resumes be emailed in
ASCII Text only; include job title in the subject header. If you
would like to send image files or a reel, please send them to the
street address above.

Students interested in pursuing a career in visual effects might
want to check out our Resources for Students page.

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