Overview
Cinesite Vancouver Inc is hiring Character FX Artists to join us on our creepy and kooky new animated theatrical feature film, The Addams Family!
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for one or more of the following areas:
o rigging dynamic simulation in Maya,
o groom fur/hair,
o run cloth, hair, fur shots.
• Execute cloth, hair and fur shot works with artisticity and within scheduled time frame.
• Proactively looking for ways to improve current practices and efficiency.
• Troubleshoot CFX related issues
• May help mentor junior artists
Requirements:
• 3+ year of work experience in Cloth and Hair/Fur in a high-end 3D animation/VFX productions as a Character FX or Creature artist.
• Proficiency with nCloth and/or XGen in Maya.
• Works well under pressure and deadlines and deliver requests with quick turn-around.
• Take direction well.
• Can handle shots independently.
• Have artistic eyes for cloth and hair dynamics and the look of fur.
• A broad understanding of rigging terminologies and geometry topology and deformations.
• Problem solver, capable to find solutions for wide range of technical challenges.
• Good communication skills.
• Positive attitude and team player.
• Open to new ideas and new practices.
• Worked with Katana and/or RenderMan is a plus.
• Yeti experience is a plus.
• Houdini experience is a plus.
• Scripting in Mel and Python is a plus.
Location: 708 Powell, Vancouver, BC
Full time, contract position
$80,000 – $100,000 CAD per year
(2) positions available
About Cinesite Vancouver
Cinesite is an independently-owned digital entertainment studio with a broad transmedia expertise. We are a talented, international team of people who design and deliver fun, entertaining, and innovative digital images with a proven creative approach.
We originally opened in 1991, and over the following two decades our London studios created visual effects for over 200 feature films and television productions, from Space Jam back in 1996 through to several Bond films and every film in the Harry Potter franchise.
In 2014 we opened a visual effects studio in Montreal, which has created visual effects for Academy Award-winning thriller The Revenant, as well as Independence Day: Resurgence and Assassin’s Creed, amongst others. That same year, we announced that we were diversifying the company’s creative footprint with the launch of our feature animation division.
Based in the same Montreal location, our team of world-class animators and story-tellers has already delivered two productions and is well on the way to delivering many more, whilst we continue to develop our own exciting projects for audiences to enjoy.
Following our merger with Vancouver-based visual effects company Image Engine, and the growth of our feature animation division into the same city, Cinesite now has major studios in London, Montreal and Vancouver. Together, our teams are well positioned to deliver world-class visual effects and animation services to the global entertainment industry.
