Studio: Ghost VFX
Job Opening: FX Artist
Location: Burbank, CA, US
Type: Full Time
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for creating photorealistic “FX,” (usually some natural phenomena such as Simulating realistic smoke, fire, rigid-body destruction, and water, as well as other particle-based effects tasks), using Houdini and any company proprietary technology or third-party technology
- You’ll have a good understanding of how to manage large data sets and complex renders as well as a familiarity with the latest techniques and technologies, and have a deep understanding of one or more specialties
- Working within a 3ds Max pipeline using Vray, FumeFX, Thinking Particles, Pflow, Phoenix Houdini, and the Thinkbox suite of tools
- Work efficiently as part of a team, or independently, to complete assigned shots
- Work within the pipeline and publish tools and scripts as prescribed
Qualifications & Skills:
- Good artistic skills
- Ability to communicate creative and technical thoughts and ideas
- Having a strong understanding of physical dynamics and natural phenomena
- Experience in managing large tool or software design and build development cycles
- Demonstrable ability to communicate creative and technical thoughts and ideas
- Ability to give and take directions and adapt to changes
- Excellence at improvising and problem-solving
- Exceptional organization skills balancing multiple shows and tasks
- Be adept at balancing creative requests with the resources available
- Be adept at balancing the creation of final renders for shots with building/maintaining systems for creating shots and effects
- Reliable, with good timekeeping and the ability to meet deadlines
- Solid experience using Nuke and knowledge of any and/or all of the following: rigid body and particle dynamics; volume modeling and rendering; procedural geometry generation; fluid dynamics
- Strong understanding of physical dynamics and natural phenomena, experience with one or more other professional software packages
- Minimum 3-5+ years’ experience of combined feature and/or TV production experience
- Expert knowledge of Houdini
- Experience working in complex pipelines
- Experience troubleshooting pipeline issues
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