Studio: Lightbox Animation Studios
Job Opening: Senior VFX Artist
Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Create a wide range of high-quality visual effects.
- Make sure that visual effects look believable and consistent with the style of the animation.
- Maximize the project’s visual spectacularity.
- Optimize effects for performance while retaining look.
- Work closely with the Director to maintain visual consistency and with the rest of the VFX pipeline to create seamless integration into shots.
- Find the best technical and creative solutions in order to meet production needs.
- Be up to date on current and emerging visual effect trends and technology so you can contribute to new techniques and workflows.
- Ability to work autonomously and independently in a fully remote environment, with that comes the supreme individual responsibility to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and maintain your own initiative.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Great team player, create a collaborative and welcoming environment.
- Proven ability to meet deadlines, prioritize workload and within budgets, adhere to the production schedule and deliver completed assignments on time.
- Align with the style, sensibility of the project and the Director vision.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years of professional experience in either animation TV series or feature animation movies.
- Strong experience with Houdini.
- Knowledge of Nuke or any other composition software is a plus.
- Strong visual awareness and artistic ability, having a good eye for composition, color, light, and shadow.
- Develop tools used in FX to enhance pipeline and ability to execute systems developed by other FX artists.
- Ability to create streamlined set ups that can be used by the rest of the team.
- Ability to take feedback constructively and implement it effectively, to reach the quality desired.
- Anticipation and quick reaction for problem-solving.
- Demonstrate great autonomy and proactivity in your work.
- Great attention to detail.
- Outstanding interpersonal and collaborative skills.
