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Job Description

The Senior Houdini FX Artist is responsible for developing complex FX setups and simulations while supporting the FX team with technical troubleshooting, mentoring, and look development.

Requirements

Duties:

  • Hero FX Work: Deliver high-complexity FX setups across shots and sequences
  • Lookdev: Ability to understand the brief and define FX visual style and iterate quickly based on feedback
  • Collaboration: Liaise with lighting, comp, layout, and CFX to align FX with shot needs
  • Technical Oversight: Ensure setups are efficient, consistent, scalable, and pipeline-friendly. Deliver visually impactful and technically sound FX at scale
  • Quality: Set the standard for quality and problem-solving in the FX team
  • Mentorship: Provide support and review feedback for mid and junior artists. Support the team in elevating both output and efficiency
  • Scene Hygiene: Maintain clean networks, version control, and caching standards
  • Communication: Keep the team updated on progress and flag blockers early
  • Feedback: Be open to feedback and work iteratively to reach final quality
  • Problem-Solving: Strong technical ability to debug scene/cache issues such as simulation behaviour, collision or attributes.
  • Workflow Contribution: Share techniques and suggest pipeline or tool improvements

Skills, attributes and experience:

  • Expert in Houdini pyro, destruction, particles, Vellum, and other solvers
  • Strong technical skill in simulation control, caching, and proceduralism
  • Proficient in rendering and preparing FX for lighting and comp
  • Experience with USD FX publishing or referencing
  • VEX scripting or Python for custom tools and setups
  • Understanding of FX-driven workflows in creature or environment scenes
  • Proficient in Maya, ZBrush, Mari, Substance Painter, and Arnold or equivalent
  • Solid understanding of modeling, UVs, texturing, and shading
  • Working knowledge of rendering, lighting, and asset publishing
  • Familiarity with USD workflows
  • Maya, Houdini, Nuke experience is a must
  • Basic scripting or tool awareness
  • Excellent communicator, sharing information clearly and actively listening

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Job Type:
Permanent Job
Industry:
Other
Function:
Animation/Visual Effects
Employment Type:
Full time

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Senior Houdini FX Artist

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Skills:

substance painter , Python, Modeling, shading, Texturing, houdini, nuke, Mari, Vellum, Zbrush, Rendering, Arnold, simulation control, Caching, UVs, pyro, USD FX publishing, VEX scripting, proceduralism, Maya, particles, destruction