Looking for a change
of scenery?

Outpost is an exciting VFX studio that delivers astonishing visual effects for film, high-end TV and creative projects, all within a supportive, balanced environment that empowers our team to create work they can be proud of.

We are currently offering internship opportunities across the VFX pipeline and in Production roles at our Bournemouth studio, located just ten minutes from the beach!

Anyone is welcome to apply, including students, hobbyists and enthusiasts.

The internships are open throughout the year with flexible start dates and durations, all with a clear focus on helping you develop valuable skills to jumpstart your career!

Please note that EU citizenship is required.

To apply, please email [email protected]

We currently have positions open for fantastic freelancers across multiple disciplines, including:

• Animators
• Riggers
• CG Generalists
• Lighting TDs
• Modellers
• Houdini Groom TDs
• FX TDs
• Compositors

Long and short-term contracts available. Please send your reel / portfolio to [email protected]

Are you currently in a production role in the VFX industry looking for your next step? Outpost VFX are looking for a VFX producer to lead some of the industries most anticipated projects of 2019.

Essential Requirements
• 3+ years of relevant experience in a VFX environment
• Thorough understanding of the VFX pipeline and production process
• Experience in bidding on new VFX jobs.
• Ability to plan and schedule resources effectively with relative VFX Supervisors.
• Excellent client liaison and relationship skills.
• Daily planning and foresight essential
• Previous exposure to and/or proficient knowledge of:
Microsoft Office applications, Clearcast, Adstream/IMD, FTP software (Filezilla/CyberDuck), Mac and Windows literate, Basic Linux, ShotGun, 7Zip and Aspera/Mediashuttle/SohoNet/MediaSilo etc.

About You
• Excellent organisational, communication and negotiation skills
• Clear confident communicator Adept in skilfully juggling tasks
• Able to perform in a client driven deadline environment

Our Production team are responsible for managing the artists, schedules and client expectations of all our film, TV and commercial VFX work. If you have a passion for supporting and organising creative projects, then this could be the role for you. Our VFX Production Managers are fundamental to our studio’s process and this could be an ideal next step for an experienced coordinator.

Essential Requirements
• 3+ years of relevant experience in a VFX environment
• Experience in VFX scheduling and high level of organisation/maintenance of databases pertaining to shots or assets.
• Previous exposure to and/or proficient knowledge of:
Microsoft Office applications, Clearcast, Adstream/IMD, FTP software (Filezilla/CyberDuck), Mac and Windows literate, Basic Linux, ShotGun, 7Zip and Aspera/Mediashuttle/SohoNet/MediaSilo etc.
• Proficient client communication.

The Role
• Maintain the successful, ingest, scheduling and delivery of all projects – formally assessed through weekly job reports
• Successful management of projects – assessed through provision of per job data and per client data.
• All projects are delivered with pinch points and crunch times minimized by proper planning and advanced warning to producers.
• Provide support to and organisation for VFX Supervisors and Producers.
• Participate in client cinesync/blue jeans or Skype calls, note taking during these sessions and providing relevant information and set up support.
• Organising, running and proficient note taking during department and show dailies sessions
• Liaising with overseas vendors and experience in a global multi-site studio.
• Client Sends, submission forms and collating material to be sent by our data IO team

About You
• Organised and focused
• Clear confident communicator Adept in skilfully juggling tasks
• Engaged and strong desire to learn
• Able to perform in a client driven deadline environment

Essential Requirements
• Excellent organisational, communication and project management skills
• Thorough understanding of the visual effects process and the ability to interpret an artistic brief from the VFX Supervisor
• Technical understanding of the CG pipelines and the ability to develop efficient workflows and identify additional tools required
• Excellent Maya skills and a strong understanding of modelling, texturing, look development, lighting, particles, fluids and dynamics
• Previous film industry experience, including experience with team management and task assignment
• Proven ability to ensure artists’ work is of a high standard on both technical and creative levels
• Excellent working knowledge of Arnold. Basic Mel and Python programming skills (advantageous)
• Previous experience in training, mentoring, and recruiting CG artists (advantageous)

Please apply by sending your demo reel and CV to [email protected] clearly stating the position you are applying for.

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK at the time of application and for the duration of the contract.

Primary Responsibilities
• Day to day management of the render farm resources taking into account daily priorities from production.
• Monitoring any issues from the farm and render related problems and liaising with the artists about any requests or issues.
• Error checking and troubleshooting technical problems related to render and data management.
• Communicating between Artists, Production, Systems and Pipeline concerning reindeer issues, requirements or needs.
• Monitoring and creating daily reports from the render farm
• Communicating any errors, inconsistency or improvements with rendering to the relevant department.
• Able to manage and organise your working hours in order to fit the needs and requirements of the studio and shows.
• Liaising with production to Archive any completed shows, the deletion of unnecessary files and restoration for show adjustments.
• Organising and archiving any reusable assets from completed shows.
• Ensuring security procedures are adhered to when it comes to data archiving and file transfers.
• Any other duties as may reasonably be required.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience
• An interest in developing skills and progression within visual effects.
• Experience using Windows & Linux.
• Ability to rapidly pick up and learn new tools and techniques.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to handle a fast-paced, occasionally high pressure environment.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to use initiative and prioritise work loads.
• An awareness of security principles and procedures.
• Problem analysing and problem solving.

With offices in Bournemouth (UK), Montreal (CA) and Singapore, Outpost is one of the leading high-end television and feature film visual effects studios.

We are currently looking for a Head of Systems to help us on the next part of our journey, expanding the technology team and supporting a global company.

As the Head of Systems, you will lead the maintenance of all technical infrastructure of the studios providing capability for 150+ artists and developers. Your main responsibilities will be, but not limited to, developing and maintaining the studio infrastructure, including network, servers and storage. You will also be expected to lead and grow a strong systems team which in turn will build a reliable, resilient and efficient platform for artists to create outstanding work.

Key requirements of the role
• Responsible for the overall health and operations of global network, storage and systems
• Administer and manage high performance storage platforms and systems
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues through excellent technical understanding of large-scale networking and routing
• Act as the senior technical contact, responsible for daily communications with multiple global systems support teams
• Proactively use monitoring tools to forecast technology areas requiring attention on ongoing basis
• Identify and remediate storage or network bottlenecks, infrastructure-wide
• Ensure the timely and successful completion of all data backups
• Understand and manage the maintenance of data centre power and cooling systems
• Perform technology purchasing and budget tracking
• Manage software licenses from forecasting to deployment
• Manage and maintaining local vendor relationships
• Guide operations staff surrounding technology issues
• Lead and develop a team of system administrators
• Manage large scale projects
• Provide user support

Must haves
• 7-10 years of experience working with IT infrastructure in a media or high-performance computing environment
• Extensive experience with Linux (CentOS preferred)
• In depth knowledge of network services including DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, etc.
• Strong shell scripting skills
• Experience with virtualization (VMware)
• In depth knowledge of IP networks, sub netting and routing
• Experience building out simple but resilient networks
• Experience specifying, deploying and supporting large scale and high-performance network storage across multiple sites

Nice to haves
• A strong commitment to quality, service and reliability
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Capability to learn and adapt quickly
• Strong ability to work under pressure
• Work well with others in a team environment
• Desire to learn from others and to take on increasingly challenging work
• Strong creative ability and flair
• Ability to mentor and provide feedback to junior employees
• Capable of leading a team of systems administrators across multiple sites across the globe

With offices in Bournemouth (UK), Montreal (CA) and Singapore, Outpost is one of the leading high-end television and feature film visual effects studios.

As the Senior Systems Administrator, you will support the systems team with the maintenance of technical infrastructure of the studio providing capability for 150+ artists and developers. Your main responsibilities will be, but limited to developing, and maintaining the studio infrastructure, including network, servers and storage.
Our primary workstation and server platforms are Windows and CentOS with our main storage being Pixit Media’s Pixstore and Microsoft Azure as our Cloud solution.

Key requirements of the role
• Systems Administration on both hardware and software platforms
• Providing technical support and general troubleshooting for commercial and custom applications on all platforms
• Actively monitor network and server performance, providing optimisations or solutions as needed
• Knowledge of Active Directory and Windows Servers
• Executing storage administration (archiving, rsyncs, etc) and infrastructure maintenance of all server platforms
• Configuration of ACLs across multiple file storage platforms
• Configuration and maintenance of existing and new virtual machines
• Perform firewall and switch configuration & patching as required
• Assist in maintaining our digital security polices both internally and externally
• Good organizational and project management skills

Must haves
• 5+ years’ experience as a Linux Systems Administrator
• Experience in and knowledge of the specific requirements of the VFX and Post production industry
• Experience with Linux/Windows/Mac OS-environments, sharing data between platforms and managing permissions
• Expert knowledge with Linux installations, application deployment and image creation
• Experience with logging systems
• Experience with configuration systems such as Ansible, PDQ and Jamf
• Experience with VMWare or other competing Hypervisors
• Team centric working process and pro-active problem solver
• Cloud infrastructure setup and maintenance

Nice to haves
• Mac OS and Windows application deployment and integration
• Scripting with python and knowledge of the Git Hub source code management system
• Knowledge of Deadline render farm manager
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure product catalogue