Freelance Senior FX Artist

🔥 13 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Rodeo FX

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501 - 1000 employees

📱 Media

🎮 Gaming

Media • Gaming

Rodeo FX is a full-service, award-winning creative company that specializes in bringing innovative projects to life across multiple mediums, including films, advertising, and visual effects. With teams located in major cities like Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Munich, Rodeo FX is committed to crafting work that resonates with audiences through its passion for artistry and technological creativity in areas like 3D animation, compositing, and motion design.

📋 Description

• Design and create complex visual simulations including fire, smoke, fluids, explosions, destruction, magical, and abstract effects • Respect Rodeo FX artistic and technical standards • Use Houdini effectively to generate optimized and adaptable effects • Manage assigned FX tasks autonomously from initial setup through final rendering • Perform quality control on files, caches, and workfiles before submission • Propose simple and effective artistic solutions aligned with project vision • Participate in dailies and integrate feedback constructively • Adapt effects to narrative needs, visual style, and scene pace • Add creative value to simulations to improve shots • Optimize caches, maintain setup stability, and follow internal technical conventions • Identify technical problems and provide functional solutions • Collaborate with the Pipeline team to integrate or test new tools • Check effects compatibility with layout, lighting, and compositing departments • Provide realistic estimates and promptly communicate difficulties or schedule risks • Collaborate with production to adjust priorities when necessary • Maintain respectful communication with production, leads, and artists from other disciplines • Participate in turnovers, briefings, and project progress monitoring • Stay current with visual-effects practices, techniques, and references • Share knowledge, tools, and techniques with colleagues • Document and improve FX department working methods • Welcome feedback to support continuous progress

🎯 Requirements

• Previous experience in FX in a VFX studio (10 years minimum recommended) • Excellent command of Houdini, including Pyro, Flip, RBD, Vellum, and SOPs • Basic knowledge of compositing with Nuke • Basic knowledge of rendering with Arnold and Karma • Knowledge of USD and Solaris • Good sense of movement, physics, and visual rhythm • Rigor, autonomy, attention to detail, and team spirit • Knowledge of Flow Production Tracking is an asset • Experience developing Houdini tools is an asset • Python or VEX scripting is an asset • Ability to join within the next few weeks • Candidates primarily based in North America or Europe are being considered for this specific project

🏖️ Benefits

• Inclusive, equitable workplace committed to diversity, equity and inclusion • Opportunity to work on high-end visual effects projects with major entertainment and technology clients • Collaboration with experienced artists and supervision, pipeline, and production teams