Fx Td

2 months ago

Melbourne, Australia Framestore Full time

**The Role**
As an FX TD at Framestore, you'll be tasked with creating CG renditions of naturalistic physical or magical phenomena. You'll bring to life the wonder of visual effects in high-end films.

**Responsibilities**:

- Creating particle, rigid-body, fluid, cloth, fur and/or hair simulations or animations
- Using a variety of commercial and proprietary FX tools including Maya, Houdini
- Working in partnership with other departments to ensure that shots are delivered to the highest possible standard
- Working within the team to determine the various design solutions needed to create the effects
- Designing and creating images, elements, effects, pipelines, tools and techniques
- Helping to design solutions involving a more procedural approach in order to create the effects required
- Producing review-able composites of all FX elements for a shot. Sometimes FX TDs will be expected to produce final renders too

**Essential Skills**:

- Degree / Diploma aligning to the position
- At least 2 years previous experience working in a film VFX pipeline
- 5 years full time work experience will substitute formal qualifications if none are available
- An excellent knowledge of Maya and Houdini (or experience in other simulation software)
- A thorough understanding of the techniques and technologies relating to FX simulation and procedural animation
- Previous experience producing effects such as smoke, fire, clouds, water, steam and explosions in addition to simulation techniques for rigid-bodies, cloth and hair
- A good understanding of animation and an eye for motion
- A good understanding of the entire visual effects process
- A familiarity with pipeline issues, especially working between multiple packages
- Strong Python and/or Vex, Mel scripting skill

**Desirable Skills**:

- Knowledge in other simulation packages such as Naiad, and realflow
- Experience with Arnold or other render packages
- Programming skills with C/C++ along with knowledge of the Houdini HDK and/or Maya API
- Unix shell scripting

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