Overview
FuseFX in Vancouver, BC is seeking a talented and experienced Layout / Previz Artist!
FuseFX is an award-winning Visual Effects Studio providing visual effects services for episodic television, feature films, commercials, virtual productions, and VR. Founded in 2006, the company employs 800+ personnel across eight studio locations and three brands. Our flagship studio is in Los Angeles, CA, with locations in New York City, Vancouver, BC., and Atlanta. Our Montreal, Toronto, and Bogota studios are serviced by FOLKS VFX, who joined FuseFX in 2020. The Adelaide, Australia studio is serviced by Rising Sun Pictures, who joined FuseFX in 2021.
Layout / Previz Artist’s Preferred Requirements:
- 5+ years’ experience in a production environment
- Proficiency in Maya animation toolset
- A thorough understanding of weight, motion, balance and physical form for both animate and inanimate objects, as well as ability to animate cameras, props and create previz.
- Strong understanding of animation principles in traditional and digital techniques
- In-depth knowledge of FK/IK systems
- Rigging and Skin weighting skills a plus
Skills / Responsibilities:
- Should effectively execute all necessary assigned tasks while under tight production schedule deadlines
- An eye for character, layout, camera, and prop animation.
- Strong creative and technical abilities
- Serve as an active participant in team discussions, critiques and reviews
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Positive attitude and self-motivated
Apply here: https://phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh04/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=WZR3W6&cws=37&rid=486
Nothing in this job description restricts the Company’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The Company prohibits discrimination in employment against otherwise qualified applicants because of a physical or mental disability and will make reasonable accommodations to enable qualified persons with known disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job consistent with applicable law. The Company will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.
About FuseFX-BC Inc.
FuseFX is an award-winning visual effects studio that provides visual effects services for film, television, commercials, games, and special venues.
FuseFX was founded by David Altenau in 2006 and initially provided visual effects for a few network episodic productions. In 2008, Tim Jacobsen and Jason Fotter joined the company as partners and contributed to significant expansion, opening new offices in Burbank, and adding infrastructure and personnel to service multiple major episodic television programs as well as feature films and commercials. In 2014, FuseFX opened a new office in New York, bringing on board Greg Anderson to head those operations.
FuseFX BC was also established in 2014 to serve Vancouver’s burgeoning film and television production community. Led by Jon Cowley, the team combines a boutique mindset with the industry’s most efficient pipeline and an ability to work seamlessly and nimbly as an extension of the company’s Los Angeles and New York studios. The results are visuals of outstanding quality and imagination, delivered on time and on budget.
Today, FuseFX’s four locations have over 30 television shows in production simultaneously, while also servicing various commercial and feature film projects. FuseFX employs 800+ personnel across eight studio locations and three brands. The company has exclusively provided visual effects for all the major studios, and on such productions as American Horror Story, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Criminal Minds, Sons of Anarchy, Bones, Mad Men, TURN, The Blacklist, The Magicians, and many others.
As a philosophy, the principals at FuseFX believe that Visual Effects offer an amazing ability to go beyond the limits of what practical production can accomplish. We strive to work with our clients to create a vision and story that could not otherwise be accomplished without the tools and talents FuseFX offers.
