Overview
Job Summary:
The primary focus of this position is the management of renders as needed by production. Secondarily this person functions as a help desk representative, helping with physical setup, artist support, and potentially growing into more.
All of FuseFX’s technical roles involve both technical and interpersonal components, ensuring systems are technically sound while maintaining open communication both within the department and with production teams.
Responsibilities:
- Strong interest in and some experience with visual effects
- Experience with render farm systems and management, Thinkbox Deadline a plus
- Experience with data wrangling and moving data between networks
- Familiarity with Autodesk 3dsmax or Maya, Vray a plus
- Familiarity with compositing software, Foundry Nuke a plus
- Some knowledge of Windows 10 troubleshooting and setup
- Familiar with software installation and configuration
- Able to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under tight deadlines
- Ability to lift 50 pounds to standing height
- Ability to excel and work well in a fast-paced, team centric environment
- Ability to maintain a high level of detail in a production environment
- Possesses excellent decision making and problem-solving skills
BONUS ROUND!
- Any experience with Microsoft Active Directory
- Some knowledge of Apple OS X troubleshooting and setup
- Ability to troubleshoot issues in artist workflow, pipeline, or hardware
- Any knowledge of Houdini or Terragen
- Experience in a production environment
Please apply here: https://fusefx.com/jobs/render-wrangler/
About FuseFX-BC
FuseFX is an award-winning visual effects studio that provides visual effects services for film, television, commercials, games, and special venues.
FuseFX has emerged as a leader in Visual Effects for episodic television, as well as increasing work on commercials and feature film productions. FuseFX has over 100 employees at their flagship office in Los Angeles, along with offices in New York City and Vancouver, Canada.
FuseFX BC was 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.
FuseFX has developed a proprietary, highly efficient pipeline. This process differentiates the company from others in the business and allows for better quality control, faster turn around of shots, allows the artists to focus on the creativity of visual effects. The company has assembled a highly experienced team of artists, supervisors, and producers with a broad range of experience in all aspects of Visual Effects. The quality of the staff also differentiates FuseFX from its competitors.
Today, FuseFX’s three locations have over 30 television shows in production simultaneously, while also servicing various commercial and feature film projects. 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.
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 new offices in New York and Vancouver to service local clients in those markets, bringing on board Greg Anderson and Jon Cowley, respectively to head those operations and build teams dedicated to FuseFX’s mission to provide stellar visual effects.
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.
