Effects Artist

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🕒 May 31

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $56 - $61 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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The Walt Disney Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1923

📱 Media

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2020-04

Media • Entertainment

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📋 Description

• Bring a strong sense of personal authorship and art direction to visuals, while meeting the artistic vision of the Director and Production Designer. • Ability to execute on a range of visuals, from the photoreal to the wholly imagined. • Collaborate with other artistic departments to achieve desired look for effects elements. • Communicate regularly with the production team to establish and meet expectations and deadlines. • Develop innovative tools and workflows necessary to achieve technical and visual goals. • Generate effects with an awareness of how they will be received and used by other departments, with a mind towards data efficiency and consumability. • Participate in team discussions and critiques, to give feedback on visuals or technical solutions in an effort to push artistry and efficiency. • Work with Effects department leadership to develop and enforce artistic and technical goals for projects and/or teams.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and/or equivalent experience. • Experience in CG visual effects production for animation, live-action film, television or games. • Proficiency with SideFX’s Houdini. • Comfortable using, or willingness and ability to learn, various effects animation techniques including procedural animation, keyframing and simulations such as rigid bodies, soft bodies, fluids, particle dynamics, etc. • Open to taking technical and artistic direction, as well as receiving and addressing notes and feedback from peers and leadership. • Attentive to detail and quality in work. • Intrinsic drive to improve technical and artistic skills and embrace a studio culture that strives to innovate and change. • Ability to clearly convey artistic and technical concepts, challenges and processes. • Keen understanding of animation and film making fundamentals, including timing, silhouette, appeal, light, color, composition, etc. • Familiarity with Linux and Python scripting is a plus. • Visual examples of images exemplifying work in this area are requested for review. Please include a resume and reel breakdown with your online profile.