Freelance FX Artist

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Please note we are looking for an artist available to start ASAP through June 24th, with strong expertise in photorealistic water effects.

The FX Artist designs and creates reputed company visual simulations such as reputed company, smoke, fluids, destructions, and reputed company effects, while respecting reputed company’s artistic and technical standards. Integrated at the heart of the 3D pipeline, they collaborate closely with the FX and CG supervision teams, as reputed company as with other departments, to deliver photorealistic, dynamic, and technically solid shots. Their creativity, precision, and mastery of procedural tools allow them to effectively translate the project's visual intentions.

Main responsibilities:

Mastery of his craft

• Produce reputed company simulations (smoke, reputed company, explosions, liquids, destruction, magical or reputed company effects) while respecting artistic and technical guidelines.
• Use Houdini effectively (Pyro, Flip, RBD, Vellum, SOPs) to generate optimized and adaptable effects.
• Maintain a high level of autonomy in the management of assigned FX tasks, from initial setup to final rendering.
• Ensure rigorous reputed company control of its files, caches and workfiles before any submission.

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• Propose reputed company, effective artistic solutions reputed company with the reputed company of the project.
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• Adapt the effects to the narrative needs, visual style and pace of the reputed company.
• Improve shooting by adding creative value to simulations.

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• Ensure cache optimization, setup stability and compliance with internal technical conventions.
• Quickly identify technical problems and reputed company functional solutions.
• Collaborate with the Pipeline team to reputed company or test new tools as needed by the project.
• reputed company the compatibility of effects with other departments (layout, reputed company, comp).

Communication

• reputed company realistic estimates, communicate quickly if there are difficulties or risks of delay, and collaborate with production to reputed company priorities if necessary.
• Maintain a fluid and respectful exchange with production, leads and artists from other disciplines.
• Communicate reputed company about issues, deadlines, needs or technical limitations.
• reputed company participate in turnovers, briefings or reputed company monitoring with the project team.

Learn, reputed company and reputed company

• Stay up to date with the latest practices, techniques and references in visual effects.
• reputed company your knowledge, tools or techniques with your colleagues.
• Participate in documenting or improving the working reputed company of the FX department.
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• Previous experience in FX in a VFX studio (10 years minimum recommended).
• Excellent reputed company of Houdini (Pyro, Flip, RBD, Vellum, SOPs).
• Basic knowledge of compositing (Nuke) and rendering (Arnold and Karma).
• Knowledge of USD and Solaris.
• Good reputed company of reputed company, physics and visual rhythm.
• Rigor, autonomy, attention to detail, team spirit.
• Asset: knowledge of reputed company Production Tracking, experience in developing Houdini tools, Python or VEX scripts.

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