Jobs at Framestore

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.

Creates photorealistic textures, materials, colors, and surface qualities for CG characters and objects. Builds efficient Houdini scenes, applies physically plausible shading, performs texture quality control, collaborates with modeling, FX, supervisors, and production teams, and mentors junior artists while meeting project deadlines.

Leads CG elements across high-end VFX projects, partnering on bids, pitches, client meetings, technical supervision, look development, production planning, and complex shot creation. Manages and mentors CG artists, troubleshoots technical challenges, and collaborates with 2D and production teams to deliver high-quality work under deadlines. Requires extensive VFX experience and expertise in Maya, Houdini, Nuke, lighting, rendering, and modern pipelines.

Assembles CG scenes, lights and renders visual effects shots, develops look and lighting setups, and optimizes rendering for farm usage. Collaborates with supervisors, compositors, production teams, and other VFX departments to deliver high-quality shots on schedule. Requires strong Houdini, Maya, color-space, lighting, rendering, compositing, Linux, and scripting knowledge, along with creative problem-solving and communication skills.

Provides escalation support for IT incidents and requests across North American studios. Administers Linux, Windows, and macOS systems, application packages, Active Directory, licensing services, enterprise storage, file systems, virtualization, monitoring tools, and render-farm software. Supports hardware, infrastructure alerts, documentation, and artist workflows while contributing to technical projects. The role requires customer-facing communication, independent troubleshooting, teamwork, and participation in an after-hours on-call rotation.

Creates and edits short-form social video content for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and X. Repurposes long-form material into platform-optimized social edits, collaborates with Marketing, PR, and Creative teams, applies brand guidelines, manages multiple deadlines, supports asset versioning and delivery, and incorporates stakeholder feedback. The role requires strong Adobe Premiere Pro skills, social storytelling instincts, and an understanding of audience engagement.

Creates and maintains high-quality CG assets for advertising, episodic, and immersive projects, with emphasis on creature modeling, texturing, UVs, and look development. Collaborates with production, leads, supervisors, clients, and other departments to meet quality and schedule requirements. Maintains asset pipeline workflows, presents work for review, updates assets as needed, and supports junior CG team members.

Create particle, rigid-body, fluid, cloth, fur, hair, and other simulations for high-end film visual effects. Develop procedural effects, shaders, lighting, pipelines, tools, and techniques using Maya and Houdini. Collaborate with other departments, produce reviewable composites or final renders, and deliver effects such as magic, smoke, fire, water, clouds, steam, and explosions.

Creates and reconstructs visual effects imagery through paint and rotoscoping. Responsibilities include removing rigs and tracking markers, creating mattes, producing clean plates, compositing in Nuke, managing shot directories in Linux, and applying keying, grading, re-timing, and screen insertion techniques. The role also requires artistic judgment, collaboration, organization, constructive feedback, and problem-solving skills.

Manages staffing, resource allocation, recruitment, onboarding, development, performance reviews, compensation, and departmental processes for film and episodic VFX production teams. Partners with production leadership, producers, HR, recruitment, and global divisions to ensure projects are appropriately crewed, communication remains effective, and employees receive career and training support. Resolves staffing conflicts, maintains reports and schedules, and helps improve cross-departmental workflows.

Leads advertising compositing projects and supervises 2D teams, balancing artistic and technical decisions across shots and sequences. Responsibilities include solving complex compositing challenges, briefing and mentoring artists, assigning shots, managing color pipelines and workflows, supporting bidding and scheduling, conducting client and internal reviews, and monitoring project progress. The role requires strong leadership, organization, negotiation, advertising compositing experience, lighting and photography skills, and expert Nuke knowledge.

Applies Generative AI and emerging technologies to advertising and VFX production. Develops ComfyUI workflows for high-fidelity visuals and short-form video, integrates AI assets with traditional VFX pipelines, and collaborates with artists and production teams. The role requires strong visual judgment, 3D workflow expertise, AI agent experience, creative problem-solving, and the ability to implement efficient solutions under tight deadlines.

Leads and mentors compositing teams across film, advertising, episodic, and immersive projects. Oversees shot assignments, quality, schedules, reviews, client communication, and collaboration across VFX departments. Performs hands-on compositing, resolves technical and artistic challenges, manages color and 2D workflows, and may provide on-set VFX supervision. Builds teams, supports talent development, and ensures high-quality delivery under pressure.

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.

Provides technical support and operational coordination for VFX review suites. Responsibilities include imaging workstations, calibrating displays and projectors, troubleshooting AV and systems issues, performing technical checks, documenting equipment and incidents, managing spares, and coordinating with global teams and external providers.

Coordinates VFX production across episodic and advertising projects, tracking CG and 2D workflows, deadlines, resources, meetings, dailies, data movement, and client deliverables. Maintains ShotGrid and CETA production schedules, communicates project updates, identifies issues, and supports timely, on-budget delivery. Requires familiarity with VFX workflows, Nuke, file formats, production databases, and Microsoft Office, along with strong organization, communication, prioritization, and teamwork skills.

Line Producer responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating, and delivering immersive, VFX, realtime, and location-based entertainment projects. The role manages production schedules, tracks departmental progress, runs meetings, maintains production databases, coordinates client deliveries, resolves issues, supports onsite testing and installation, and oversees coordinators while collaborating with creative, technical, pipeline, crewing, and production teams.

Develops RFP responses, bidding packages, and detailed bid breakdowns for immersive, realtime, and VFX projects. Collaborates with creative and technical leaders to define approaches, tracks bid progress, supports capacity and financial planning, and partners with contracts teams on payment schedules. Builds client relationships, conducts visual development tests, and guides awarded projects through pre-production. Requires strong analytical, communication, spreadsheet, client-management, and immersive production skills.

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.

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.