Cinesite is a multinational worldwide 3D feature animation and VFX house. They produce work for a multitude of audiences from children, which is primarily what their 3D feature animation is aimed at. All the way up to adults which their more VFX work is aimed at. Some examples of their more children centered work would be; The Addams Family 1 and 2, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, and Extinct just to name a few. Although these are all stunning visual spectacles in their own rights, for me it’s just not the style of animation I enjoy at the moment. However that's not to say I won't ever be. Personally I am more interested in their works tailored towards their more adult audiences such as The Witcher, Halo and numerous Marvel movies and tv shows. That being said, it would be massively appealing to work for a company who does both like Cinesite as it would give me the option to swap between the two if the opportunity arose.
 

Cinesite for its VFX at least has a reasonably standard pipeline consisting of modelling, Sculpting, texturing, rigging, animation, lighting, simulation (FX and cloth/hair), rendering and compositing. 

This is a mostly generic VFX pipeline consisting of the following software; Nuke, 3D Equaliser, Maya, Zbrush, 3D Studio Max, Substance Painter, Houdini and Arnold/Vray. As well as this, much like many VFX companies, they have started to incorporate Unreal Engine into their pipeline. However as this is relatively new tech it is still being worked out how to use it efficiently as well as where exactly it can be implemented.

Cinesite has 3 offices across the globe. 1 being in London, and the other 2 being in Canada, specifically in Vancouver and Montreal. I will primarily be looking into the location of the London office, however it is nice to see they have options to emigrate to Canada if I ever felt the need to. The London office is based at 10 Little Portland Street, making it only a 50 minute journey from my house. This for me I feel is a reasonable commute, and is definitely one worth making to work at a company like Cinesite. Please find a map of the transport route below.

Unfortunately at the time of writing this there are no active junior animation job roles available for me to quote requirements from. However please refer to the above role requirements section to get an idea of a generic requirement for a junior animator in the VFX sector. However, if the requirements are anything like that, I feel with the standard of my showreel I feel I would stand a good chance of getting to the interview stage at least. Cinesite however does run internships. However they are as of yet to open the applications for the summer 2023 internships. That being said, after looking at past offerings they  offer internships in two sectors; Layout and Matchmove. Both key gateways into the animation side of VFX, making these opportunities something I will be applying to if they become available in the near future.

I am lucky enough to have gone to Cinesite in April of 2022 for an animation mixer event. The event itself was amazing. I got to meet animators from Pixar and learn about their personal experiences in animation as they gave out advice freely if needed. However for me that wasn't the best part. That for me was meeting Samir Ansari. A former Ravensbourne student who was now CG Supervisor at Cinesite. Samir in the months to come became, and still is a key contact for me. And is in fact pretty much who my showreel is aimed to impress. To the point that Samir is definitely someone who I want to invite to the degree show as Cinesite for me would be an amazing place to start my career.