FX Artist

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

🤝 B2B

Media • B2B

Pitch Black is a global house of award-winning creative brands specializing in digital production and visual effects for film, television, and streaming media. It comprises multiple established VFX and visualization studios—FOLKS, Rising Sun Pictures (RSP), El Ranchito, and Square One—delivering high-end visual effects, visualization, and creative production services to major international clients and storytellers.

📋 Description

• Create advanced FX simulations, including fire, explosions, destruction, volumetrics, fluids, oceans, lava, and environmental effects • Deliver hero-level FX in complex, multi-element sequences • Develop reusable Houdini templates and procedural workflows for production teams • Design and maintain tools that improve simulation efficiency and artist workflows • Collaborate with supervisors, department leads, and international teams to solve technical and creative challenges • Help establish quality standards and ensure consistency across sequences • Support workflow improvements through scripting and technical problem-solving • Participate in dailies, clearly communicate work progress, and respond constructively to feedback • Mentor and support other artists by sharing knowledge and providing technical guidance

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in a professional VFX production environment, with a strong specialization in FX • Expert proficiency in Houdini • Strong understanding of particle systems, destruction, volumetrics, and fluid simulations • Strong scripting skills in VEX, Python, and MEL • Advanced knowledge of Maya • Experience working in fast-paced production environments • Excellent communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills across time zones • Preferred: Experience leading sequences or small teams • Preferred: Contributions to pipeline, R&D, or tool-development initiatives • Preferred: Working knowledge of Vellum • Preferred: Knowledge of Katana or Unreal Engine • Preferred: Experience with Nuke

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely • Inclusive and accessible recruitment experience • Equal employment opportunities • Inclusive workplace • Accommodation support during recruitment

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