Cfx Artist

4 days ago

Melbourne, Australia Framestore Full time

Framestore Melbourne is looking for a CFX artist to join us either in Melbourne or remotely

The CFX artist is responsible for setting up skin, muscle, cloth and hair simulations for our hero and secondary characters and creatures. Other responsibilities include, maintaining and supporting those rigs/setups through production as well as running shots in production.

**Responsibilities**
- Build, maintain and test simulation rigs and setups
- Develop tools to assist in building simulation rigs and running shot simulations
- Run simulations, perform technical animation and shot sculpting for shots in production
- Creatively troubleshoot and solve problems independently
- Receive and address technical and creative feedback from supervisors and leads

**Qualifications and Experience**
- High level of proficiency with industry standard software such as Maya and/or Houdini
- Good knowledge of nCloth, nHair, and/or Vellum
- Excellent sense for physically based motion and understanding of animation principles
- Ability to clearly and effectively communicate complex topics relevant to CFX and connected departments
- Strong problem solving skills
- Ability and willingness to multi-task
- Working knowledge of Python (and/or Mel)
- 3 years of experience in film/animation/VFX

In addition, experience of any of the following is highly desirable:

- Experience with Ziva Dynamics
- Experience with Houdini
- Experience with Marvelous Designer
- Previous rigging experience
- Previous experience in Linux

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