Work begins long before post: a supervisor and a producer break the script down shot by shot and put a price on it, and the supervisor is often on set collecting the lighting and camera data the artists will need a year later. When editorial locks a scene, the shots are turned over with their plates and their counts, and each one travels the pipeline from prep to 3D to comp, round and round the review schedule until the client approves it. Two ladders lead out of the runner's desk: production and technical, and job adverts sort artists into 2D and 3D.
VFX supervisor
VFX producer
VFX production manager
VFX coordinator
Head of department and lead
VFX editor
Compositor
Animator
Modelling, texturing, look development and rigging artist
FX artist
Lighting artist
Matchmove and layout artist
Roto, prep and paint artist
VFX runnerEntry-level job
