Jobs at Sony Pictures Imageworks

Leads CG and lighting teams on high-end live-action VFX productions, translating the Director’s vision into technically and artistically successful shots. Oversees CG pipeline development, workflow optimization, tools, staffing, scheduling, budgets, quality, and delivery. Provides technical direction, mentors artists, collaborates across technology, creative, and production teams, participates in reviews, and supports recruitment and performance feedback.

Develop and maintain character effects pipeline and production CFX for cloth, hair, feathers, muscles, and rigid bodies. Build Python-based pipeline tools and scripts, optimize simulations, troubleshoot setups, mentor CFX artists, and collaborate with Rigging, Animation, and Surfacing to integrate assets and improve workflows and visual quality.

The Technical Engineer will develop and implement procedural tools in Houdini, collaborate with artists, and support production pipelines with minimal supervision.

Design and develop procedural tools in Houdini for various departments. Collaborate with artists and engineers to optimize workflows and support production pipelines.

FX Artists are responsible for creating and animating digital effects using software like Houdini, ensuring high-quality effects align with production needs.

The Layout Artist translates storyboards and instructions into 3D sequences, working on camera composition, geometry, and character blocking while collaborating with the production team.

Designs and implements lighting for characters and environments, ensuring continuity and meeting art direction for production shots.

The Pipeline TD creates and refines technical aspects of the Maya animation pipeline, developing tools for efficient animation production and managing workflows.

Compositors at Sony Pictures Imageworks combine various media layers to create final images, ensuring seamless transitions and meeting art direction.

Creates 3D layouts from storyboards, manages camera composition, collaborates within the team, and meets production schedules. Requires strong design skills and technical software knowledge.

Create and apply photoreal/stylized textures for CG/VFX work, collaborating with teams and meeting deadlines while demonstrating exceptional artistic skills.

As a Character FX Artist, you will create character simulations for features like hair and cloth, meet productivity targets, and work collaboratively with the team.

Texture Artists at Sony Imagesworks create and apply photoreal or stylized textures, collaborating with various departments to meet project deadlines.

Designs and implements lighting for characters and environments, ensuring continuity and meeting productivity targets in a production setting.

Develops and refines technical aspects of animation pipeline using Maya, Python, and related tools while collaborating with production teams.

Sony Pictures Imageworks welcomes general applications for various positions in a dynamic work environment for creative professionals.

Create final images by combining rendered animation, live action, and graphics using in-depth software knowledge, particularly Nuke, ensuring seamless transitions and meeting artistic direction.

The Experienced Compositor combines layers of graphics and live action to create final images, ensuring seamless transitions and meeting productivity targets.

The FX Artist designs and animates digital effects for CG animation, ensuring productivity and meeting deadlines while collaborating with the team.

The Lighter designs and implements lighting for characters and environments, ensuring shots align with production art direction. Requires compositing experience and technical skills.