Houdini FX Artist

1 Month ago • All levels • Technical Art

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Houdini FX Artist at Scanline VFX, you'll create high-quality 3D visual effects, including destruction, smoke, fire, and water simulations. You'll collaborate with supervisors and leads, utilizing presets and templates while striving for aesthetic quality and technical accuracy. Responsibilities include revising simulations based on feedback, coordinating with the lighting department, suggesting process improvements, exploring new techniques, and troubleshooting. The role demands problem-solving skills, proficiency in Houdini, and a strong understanding of physics and realistic motion. Experience in live-action VFX for feature films or high-level television is essential.
Must have:
  • Houdini expertise
  • Variety of simulation experience
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Collaboration and communication
  • Meets deadlines
  • Physics and motion understanding
Good to have:
  • Compositing experience
  • Scripting experience

Job Details

As an FX artist, your role is to create high-caliber dynamic and riveting visual 3D FX. This role requires problem-solving skills, to be able to solve technical and artistic issues while meeting client requirements and production deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

    • Create a wide variety of realistic effects, including but not limited to destruction, smoke, fire, and water
    • Work under the guidance of multiple supervisors to achieve the  desired level of aesthetic quality and technical accuracy, often  exploring different approaches and looks
    • Work with the FX leads to produce various elements using presets and templates, and to expand and improve upon these templates
    • Revise simulations based on client and supervisor feedback in a timely manner
    • Coordinates with the lighting department to ensure seamless integration of FX elements
    • Work within the established pipeline and offer constructive suggestions to improve the process
    • Help develop and explore new ways to enhance results
    • Help team debug issues and learn new methods

Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience 
    • Previous experience in live-action visual effects for feature films or high-level television
    • Creative ability and artistic talent, demonstrated by previous work
    • Knowledge of Houdini (required)
    • Strong experience in creating a wide variety of simulations (destruction, atmospheric, fluid, supernatural, etc.)
    • Understanding of physics, realistic motion, and assorted natural phenomena on different scales
    • Exceptional technical skills, the ability to learn new software quickly, and a keenness to stay on the leading edge
    • Strong willingness to grow, learn new methods, and share knowledge with others
    • Ability to work and solve technical issues independently
    • Ability to take direction positively, work well within a team, and thrive under the pressure of tight deadlines
    • Excellent communication skills and an open mind
    • Team player able to work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment
    • Compositing and scripting experience is a plus

About Us
Scanline VFX is an award-winning leader in the visual effects industry with 7 studios worldwide, including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich, Seoul, Stuttgart, and Vancouver. Since our beginning in 1989, we strive to set the highest standard of quality in everything we do. Through innovation, we generate solutions for our clients and raise the bar — both within our workplace and throughout our industry.

We look for explorers, people who are willing to go to new places and are open to testing, learning and iterating as they go. We believe great ideas come from everyone, so we actively encourage team members to ask questions and present their ideas.

Eyeline Studios
Eyeline Studios, our virtual production division, is rethinking the future of real-time filmmaking by providing content creators with unmatched flexibility. Learn more.

Powered by Netflix
Netflix’s investment in our pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows us to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in visual effects. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, we continue to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients.

Come as you are
We are committed to ensuring fair and equal treatment of your application. When you apply for a role with us, you will receive consideration based solely on your qualifications.

We will only consider applicants based in British Columbia, or those willing to relocate.

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About The Company

Scanline VFX is an award-winning, global leader in the visual effects industry with studios in 7 core locations including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich, Seoul, Stuttgart, and Vancouver. From humble beginnings over 30 years ago, we’ve grown to a team of over 1,200 made up of diverse nationalities from around the world. We believe in the power of storytelling and are committed to helping filmmakers realize their artistic vision. Underpinned by a commitment to innovation, collaboration and long-standing partnerships, we continue to develop innovative tools, techniques and technologies, to offer filmmakers the ultimate in creative freedom. Eyeline Studios, Scanline’s virtual production division, is rethinking the future of real-time filmmaking by providing content creators with unmatched flexibility.

Netflix’s investment in Scanline’s pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows Scanline to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in VFX. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, Scanline continues to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients outside of Netflix.

Established in 1989 in Munich, Scanline became well-known for our ability to create photorealistic natural phenomena such as fire, smoke and water, having developed our proprietary fluid simulation software, Flowline. Scanline was the sole developer of Flowline and in 2008, and was the recipient of a Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award® for the software.

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