Stage Technical Artist
Job Summary
Job Description
- Implement and optimize real-time assets.
- Work with VAD teams for content prep.
- Address creative notes.
- Support lookdev and lighting.
- Build procedural tools and pipelines.
- Maintain and improve workflows.
- Collaborate on USD workflows.
- Troubleshoot and resolve stage-facing issues.
7 skills required
Job Details
Key Responsibilities
- Implement and optimize real-time assets in Unreal Engine, Houdini, and other DCCs
- Work with VAD teams to prep and refine content for stage delivery
- Address creative notes in real-time using Blueprints, material work, and light touch modeling/FX
- Support lookdev, lighting, and real-time material tuning
- Build procedural tools and pipelines using Houdini and Houdini Engine
- Maintain and improve workflows for content ingestion, optimization, and versioning
- Collaborate on USD workflows, PDG pipelines, and content version control
- Troubleshoot and resolve stage-facing issues quickly under pressure
Qualifications
- Proficiency in Unreal Engine (Blueprints, Materials, Lighting, Level Optimization)
- Strong experience with Houdini — procedural systems, PDG, Houdini Engine
- Understanding of performance tuning for real-time environments
- Experience with USD pipelines and stage-ready asset prep
- Creative eye and ability to balance quality with technical needs
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-pressure on-set environment
- Clear communicator who can translate between creative and technical teams
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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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