FX Artist required at Ghost VFX Studio

FX Artist required at Ghost VFX Studio

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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