Lead Cfx Artist

2 weeks ago


Vancouver, Canada ICON Creative Studio Full time

Job description

Founded in 2013, ICON Creative Studio is Canada’s largest independently owned animation entertainment company located in the historic Gastown district of Vancouver, BC, Canada. With almost 400 design, storyboarding, modelling, rigging, animation, technical animation, lighting, visual effects and compositing artists alongside creative and management teams.

**Lead CFX Artist**

**Experience**:

- Advanced animation and modeling skills
- Advanced knowledge on Maya nDynamics. Action shots with multi-layered cloth, displaying understanding of cloth collisions and nucleus attributes
- Experience leading a team and training new hires.
- Comfortable delegating tasks

**Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for the hardest cloth shots on the team
- Good understanding of Icon's rig systems, being able to add cloth systems in specific shots
- Comfortable with hand animating hair and cloth when needed
- Understanding of modeling for topology fixing and UV mapping
- Basic Arnold knowledge
- Intermediate to advanced Python knowledge, able to understand errors and edit parameters for error fixing
- ICON Creative Studio is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

*Ask us about our generous benefits program.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

**Salary**: $80,000.00-$120,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Vision care

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Vancouver, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location


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