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: fire, smoke, fluids, destruction, magical or abstract effects • Produce simulations in accordance with artistic and technical guidelines • Use Houdini (Pyro, Flip, RBD, Vellum, SOPs) to generate optimized and adaptable effects • Independently manage FX tasks, from the initial setup through final rendering • Perform quality control on files, caches, and workfiles before submission • Propose artistic solutions aligned with the project’s vision • Participate in dailies and incorporate feedback • Adapt effects to the narrative requirements, visual style, and pacing of the scene • Optimize caches and ensure setup stability • Identify and resolve technical issues • Collaborate with the Pipeline team to integrate or test new tools • Verify effect compatibility with layout, lighting, and compositing • Provide estimates, flag schedule risks, and collaborate with Production on priorities • Participate in turnovers, briefings, and progress reviews • Share knowledge and contribute to FX documentation and workflow improvements

🎯 Requirements

• Strong expertise in high-end photorealistic visual effects • Previous FX experience in a VFX studio (10+ years recommended) • Excellent proficiency in Houdini (Pyro, Flip, RBD, Vellum, SOPs) • Basic knowledge of compositing (Nuke) and rendering (Arnold and Karma) • Knowledge of USD and Solaris • Strong understanding of motion, physics, and visual pacing • Organized, self-motivated, detail-oriented, and collaborative • Asset: Knowledge of Flow Production Tracking • Asset: Experience developing Houdini tools • Asset: Python or VEX scripting experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time • Contract through the end of March 2027 • Remote work available