Studio: Spin VFX Studio
Job Opening: FX Department Manager
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Autonomous scheduling and tasking, prioritizing and tracking deadlines across multiple projects, maintaining creative cohesion in task assignments across multiple projects simultaneously.
- Determining departmental task requirements and identifying necessary material for successful task completion.
- Organizing dailies, rounds, and department meetings including morning and end-of-day check-in serving multiple projects and preserving a strict daily floor schedule.
- Scheduling online meetings, liaising open discussions via group chats during remote work periods.
- Identifying and communicating artist pressure points, bottlenecks, and timeline adjustments.
- Ensuring Shotgun (project management tool) statuses and task assignments are kept tidy.
- Ensuring clarity on deadlines, level of completion requirements, and weekly quota.
- Ensuring project scope, status, and completion information is up to date via Shotgun.
- Familiarize yourself with the Spin process and technical aspects of the Effects Department focusing on Houdini, Mantra Rendering, caching for lighting, and a future transition to .usd.
- Participate in daily render meetings alongside Render Wranglers and Show Production to determine daily and overnight requirements.
- Support department morale and culture.
- Develop department initiatives with creative supervisors, and collaborate with the pipeline team to ensure initiatives are met.
- Provide daily/weekly reports, and forecasts with the Head of CG Production and CG Producer.
Apply for the Job: To apply, visit https://www.spinvfx.com/fx-department-manager/