CFX Lead

17 hours ago

Montreal, Quebec, Canada Reel FX Creative Studios Full time

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled CFX Lead to join our team at Reel FX Creative Studios. As a CFX Lead, you will work closely with our CFX Supervisors to bring the Director's vision to life by creating and executing fur and cloth simulations on our productions.

Responsibilities:


• Develop and maintain all department documentation of current pipeline and techniques

• Train new hires in department standards, workflow, and techniques.

• Guide and mentor artists in advancing their work towards asset/shot approval.

• Collaborate with team members in an advisory role and provide guidance on process and troubleshooting.


• Cloth:
? Prepare assets for cloth simulation, including creating the cloth simulation rig for the asset.
? Lead the development of a cloth simulation rig for an asset, including defining baseline default parameters.
? Run realistic, stylized, and complex cloth shot simulations in a production environment
? Perform corrective shapes and sculpting fixes for cloth simulation in shot.
? Develop complex garments for use in shot work for Unreal Engine.
? Ingest, render, and QC cloth elements for Unreal Engine.


• Fur:
? Procedurally groom hero-level and complex hair and fur using XGen.
? Discover new techniques to achieve groom direction in the most efficient and flexible way and share them with the team.
? Prepare approved grooms for animation rigging.
? Prepare approved grooms for simulation, including creating the fur simulation rig for the asset to be used in Unreal Engine.
? Lead the development of a fur simulation rig for an asset, including defining baseline default parameters.
? Run realistic and stylized fur simulations in a production environment
? Ingest, render, and QC fur elements for Unreal Engine.

Requirements:


• 5+ years of experience in film/animation/vfx.

• Degree/diploma in fine arts/computer science or equivalent experience.

• Advanced to Expert knowledge of Maya.

• Advanced to Expert knowledge of Unreal Engine.

• Expertise in Unreal Engine feature sets such as collisions, chaos cloth, Animation Sequencer.

• Knowledge of MEL, Python, C++ or other scripting language is a plus.

• Demo reel demonstrating abilities with shot breakdown.

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