Creature FX Artist - Senior -Temporary contract

Repeatedly voted one of Montreal’s Top Employers and Employer of the Year for the 2022 Mercuriades Awards, Rodeo FX is a high-end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential.

Nominated for multiple Emmy® Awards for its work on the series Stranger Things season 4, The Witcher season 2 and The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power season 1, the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts close to 900 artists crafting from studios in Montreal, Québec City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Paris.

Rodeo FX is a creative partner to the world’s best storytellers including Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros. and Sony, and has collaborated on ads for YouTube, NBC and Apple. Current projects include Blue Beetle, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. Recently released projects include John Wick: Chapter 4, Black Adam, Disney's The Little Mermaid and Love, Death and Robots Volume 3, for which the company won a 2023 VES award.

Job Description

The Creature FX artist creates photo realistic and believable simulations and deformation for various creatures and characters, ensuring they are meeting with the high quality standard of Rodeo FX. 

Main responsibilities:

• Create simulation and deformation set ups for hair, fur, cloth, feather, muscles and skin, always making sure they meet the project requirements;
• Run simulations in shots and address any notes;
• Work closely with other department supervisors and leads, as well as the head of the CFX department, to find creative and technical solutions and approaches that meet project requirements and deadlines;
• Participate in the development of tools and techniques for the department;
• Perform quality control on shots before they are submitted for review/approval, ensuring all technical and creative standards are met, and promptly apply notes received;
• Keep Production and the project team informed of the status of work, issues to be resolved, ramifications of problems encountered and recommend potential solutions;
• Help create and maintain department documentation of current pipeline, tools and techniques;
• Ensure deadlines are met, advising the project team promptly if delays could be expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar position, within the VFX industry;
• Excellent knowledge of Houdini;
• Experience with shot modelling;
• Experience in creating simulation setups for specific production needs;
• Excellent sense of prioritization and respect of deadlines.

Additional Information

• 3-months renewable CDDU (fixed-term contract).
• On-site position at our studio

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