Studio: Rising Sun Pictures
Job Opening: Mid – Senior Creature FX
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Type: Short – Long Term Contract
Responsibilities:
- The Creature FX TD is responsible for building and maintaining cloth and hair simulation rigs and running simulations within shots.
- They work closely with rigging, animation, and modeling to ensure the assets are built and designed for fast and quality deformation.
- Creature FX TDs leverage shot finaling tools within the creature pipeline to ensure quality assets are passed downstream to lighting.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum 4 years of relevant character effects experience across high-end feature films.
- Experience with cloth and hair simulation using Maya’s Nucleus solvers.
- Experience with either Maya’s Xgen, Yeti, or Houdini grooming.
- Knowledge and experience in Python.
- Ability and understanding of how to shoot sculpt using custom and standard methods.
- Strong initiative and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
Desired Skills:
- Muscle and flesh simulation experience.
- Experience with Maya’s python API.
- C++ experience is a plus.
- A good understanding of Object-Oriented design patterns.
- An understanding of traditional rigging techniques eg. Puppet development, Linear skinning, etc.
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