Job Description

FX Technical Directors create CG renditions of naturalistic physical or magical phenomena.

Responsibilities:

• Creating particle, rigid-body, fluid, cloth, fur and/or hair simulations or animations

• Applying lighting and shaders to produce the final rendered image or passing the simulation on to a Lighting Technical Director

• Using a variety of commercial and proprietary FX tools including Maya, Houdini & it's plug-ins

• 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

Requirements

Essential Skills:

• 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

• A working knowledge of at least one compositing application (e.g. Nuke) and a solid understanding of the compositing process

• 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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