Job Opening: FX Animator
Studio: Mercury Filmworks
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Role and Responsibilities:
- Design and create a wide variety of visual effects, including but not limited to destruction, smoke, fire, water, explosions, lightening, the supernatural, etc.
- Revise designs based on client and director feedback in a timely manner.
- Work in coordination with the production team and FX Supervisor to ensure smooth integration of FX elements.
- Work with FX Supervisor and Leads to achieve the desired level of aesthetic quality and technical accuracy.
- Create dramatic visual style that bring our projects, levels and characters to life while ensuring that all required performance metrics are met.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years of FX Artist experience in a production environment
- Highly skilled ToonBoom/ Harmony & ability to troubleshoot software challenges
- Strong experience creating a wide variety of FX simulations (water, smoke, fire, destruction, supernatural, etc)
- Understanding of physics, realistic motion, timing, scale and various natural phenomena at different scales
- Strong knowledge of classical 2D animation principals
- Portfolio should show an diverse look and understanding of visual FX
- Professional communication skills, able to take direction and work within a production schedule
- Ability to interpret and transform abstract ideas and concepts into compelling effects
- A passion for animation!
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