Studio: Reel FX Animation
Job Opening: CFX Artist
Location: Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain all department documentation of current pipeline and techniques
- Cloth:
- Prepares the assets for cloth simulation, including and not limited to creating the cloth simulation rig for the asset.
- Run realistic and stylized cloth shot simulations in a production environment
- Performs corrective shapes and sculpting fixes for cloth simulation in shot
- Rendering and QC of cloth elements
- Fur:
- Procedurally groom hair and fur using XGen.
- Prepares the approved groom for animation rigging.
- Prepares the approved groom for simulation, including and not limited to creating the fur simulation rig for the asset.
- Run realistic and stylized fur simulations in a production environment
- Rendering and QC of fur elements
Qualifications & Skills:
- 3 years of experience in film/animation/VFX
- Degree/diploma in fine arts/computer science or equivalent experience
- Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of Maya
- Knowledge of mel, python, or other scripting languages is a plus.
- Able to work independently and advance towards asset/shot approval with minimal daily supervision
- Demo reel demonstrating abilities with the shot breakdown
- Cloth:
- Experience with multiple types of cloth solvers such as nCloth, Syflex, or Qualoth.
- Knowledge of the physics of motion and timing, cloth and hair motion.
- Solid knowledge of nCloth, nHair, deformers, and rigging techniques.
- Fur:
- Strong understanding of current grooming systems and techniques.
- Intermediate understanding with xGen or other grooming packages.
- Intermediate to advanced understanding of general grooming toolsets and is able to troubleshoot.
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, visit https://jobs.reelfx.com/en/positions/cfx-artist-631