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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.

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.