Jobs at Framestore

Animate primary and secondary characters and elements for film and episodic visual effects. Collaborate with animation leads, supervisors, production, and creative teams to complete assigned shots, meet deadlines, submit work for review, and incorporate feedback. The role requires strong Maya knowledge, understanding of motion, anatomy, rigs, animation pipelines, and data transfer, plus adaptability, communication, organization, and reliability.

Provides generalist HR support to the Montreal office, advising managers and employees on employee relations, performance, policies, benefits, payroll information, employment legislation, immigration, and HR systems. Manages HR projects, training programs, employee departures, records, reporting, and government documentation. Represents the company externally and supports policy development, employee integration, appraisal processes, and workplace committees.

Creates camera and object motion tracks, 3D geometry, and wireframe verification passes to integrate digital elements with live-action footage. Collaborates with leads, production teams, and downstream VFX departments to ensure accurate scene reconstruction and seamless CG integration. Requires foundational computer graphics knowledge, familiarity with Maya, 3DE, Linux, compositing, photography, and lens perspective, plus strong communication and deadline-management skills.

Create particle, rigid-body, fluid, cloth, fur, hair, and procedural simulations for high-end film and episodic visual effects. Develop FX elements, tools, pipelines, and techniques; apply lighting and shaders; produce composites and renders; and collaborate with other departments to deliver shots. The role requires strong Maya and Houdini expertise, experience with VFX pipelines and simulation techniques, and knowledge of compositing and the overall visual effects process.

As an FX Technical Director, create CG effects, simulations, and animations. Collaborate with teams to deliver high-quality visual effects for films.

Freelance Compositor integrates 2D, 3D, live-action, and computer-generated elements into high-end visual-effects shots. The role collaborates with Compositing and VFX Supervisors, follows creative and technical direction, manages assigned workloads and deadlines, applies color-space principles, and communicates with production teams. Strong Nuke experience, stereo compositing, render-pass knowledge, visual detail, organization, and familiarity with Hollywood and VFX pipelines are required.

Create and run large-scale crowd simulations, develop locomotion and motion behaviours, integrate crowd work into VFX pipelines, build tools and workflows, and collaborate across modelling, rigging, animation, mocap, and lighting to meet production quality and deadlines.

Create CG camera animation, scene layouts, asset staging, character blocking, and shot compositions for visual effects productions. Manage previs and postvis ingestion, conforms, and animation shot content while maintaining continuity and tidy pipeline-ready scenes. Apply cinematography and practical camera knowledge, resolve technical issues, and collaborate with supervisors under tight deadlines. Maya expertise is required; Houdini, camera tracking, 3DEqualizer, MEL, and Python experience are advantageous.

Create high-quality keyframe animation for primary and secondary characters and elements in story-driven visual effects and immersive projects. Collaborate with Animation Leads, Supervisors, Production, and team members; complete assigned shots on schedule; submit work for review; incorporate feedback; and adapt to changing creative and technical requirements.

Composite 2D, 3D and live-action elements to high-end VFX standards, take direction from leads, meet show deadlines, manage workload, and apply color space and composition principles.

Leads the artistic and technical execution of complex FX and character dynamics simulations, including cloth, fur, hair, skin, muscle, and environmental effects. Mentors FX and CFX technical directors, develops Houdini and Maya production setups, runs hero simulations, troubleshoots pipeline issues, and coordinates asset handoffs across departments. The role also requires scripting, tool development, lighting, rendering, compositing, technical reviews, and communication with artists and supervisors.

Provides escalation-level IT support across North American studios, administering workstations, operating systems, applications, storage, virtualization, licensing, monitoring, and render-farm software. Supports enterprise file systems, infrastructure alerts, documentation, artist workflows, and technology projects. Requires hardware repair and build experience, scripting, Active Directory, VMware, storage architecture, and customer-facing troubleshooting. Participates in an on-call rotation.

Monitor and manage render farm queues, troubleshoot render failures, allocate computing and storage resources, support data restoration, and coordinate render status with production teams. The role also handles project cleanup, archiving, data removal coordination, and render optimization while collaborating with technical directors and IT/TechOps. It requires familiarity with VFX software, render farm tools, Linux, and computer graphics, with scripting experience preferred.

Compositors integrate 2D, 3D, live-action, and computer-generated elements into high-end visual effects shots. The role involves collaborating with compositing and VFX supervisors, executing assigned shots, managing workload and deadlines, applying color-space principles, interpreting creative briefs, solving technical challenges, and responding to feedback. Candidates need at least five years of film VFX pipeline experience, strong compositing expertise, visual judgment, attention to detail, and fluency in Nuke or comparable node-based software.

Create and execute character and creature dynamic simulations (cloth, hair, muscles, skin), build simulation rigs, collaborate with Modeling/Rigging/Animation/Lighting/Groom, develop tools and workflows, meet deadlines, and deliver finished assets to Lighting.

Create photorealistic visual development assets for film and episodic VFX, working across modeling, sculpting, shading, texturing, lighting, rendering, environments, creatures, characters, and FX. Use Blender, procedural workflows, and simulations to establish visual benchmarks, resolve creative and technical challenges, and prepare organized scenes for production handoff. Collaborate with supervisors and stakeholders while clearly communicating workflows and maintaining high-quality documentation.

Framestore Integrated Advertising seeks freelancers for future opportunities requiring skills in CG imagery production, communication, and collaboration in a fast-paced environment.

Framestore Integrated Advertising seeks freelance talent experienced in Nuke production for commercials or film. Strong skills in organization and communication are required, along with a creative eye and eagerness to learn. Submit your details to be considered for future projects.

Crowd Technical Directors at Framestore create simulations of crowd characters, develop locomotion, and work with departments for high-end visual effects films.

Framestore seeks exceptional freelance talent for future opportunities in CG. Required skills include knowledge of various software and strong communication. Adaptability and teamwork are essential. Valid US work authorization is necessary.