CG Fundamentals: Strong knowledge of materials, texturing, animation, simulation, polygon modeling, UV mapping, and basic rigging.
Post-Production: Retouching skills to align renders to be on brand and fix any errors. Editing skills to piece together sequences, add effects and titles to produce video content
Design Mockups - comping into layouts.
File understanding - how to convert files, remodel, unwrap, manage file sizes
Visual Execution:
Photorealism: Ability to achieve a high level of realism, matching products closely to their real-life counterparts. Great observation skills, eye for details, able to self direct against reference.
Lighting & Composition: Technical knowledge of lighting for product shots and creating mood lighting for interiors. Ability to control light to highlight the product as the focal point, avoiding reliance on basic prefab techniques.
Understanding in what's needed to make a product shot on transparent backgrounds, how to build photorealistic interior scenes, how to technically illustrate concepts
Workflow Management:
Software Problem Solving: Understand software and resolve technical issues such as memory handling, file sizes, and software crashes.
Production Workflows: Experience in setting up takes and variations for different versions of images efficiently.
Quality Management: Capable of delivering high-quality output for critical assets while efficiently producing lower-priority assets at a faster pace.