Artiste au Groom senior - VFX -- Senior Groom Artist - VFX

Cinesite-Montreal•Montreal, QC

42d•Hybrid

About The Position

Cinesite is an international visual effects and animation studio with over 30 years of experience in the film and television industry. We take pride in producing cutting-edge, award-winning works. We operate as a collective, where excellence, expertise, and creativity are valued by all. The Grooming Artist is part of the Assets department and reports to the Head of Builds within the VFX Division. They are responsible for creating realistic natural looking hair, fur, or feathers for digi-doubles, animals, and creatures using Houdini grooming tools.

Requirements

3-5 years’ experience with Hair and Fur groom in high-end 3D animation/VFX productions
Expertise/Proficiency in Houdini or similar tool such as Xgen
Ability to consistently produce high quality and photo real grooms and to troubleshoot them
Ability to adapt to and innovate new styles and techniques
A clear understanding of color space, shading, lighting, and rendering methodologies
Good Knowledge of simulation principles
Ability to work well in a fast paced environnement and meet deadlines
Ability to take direction and feedback in a positive manner
Good communication skills
Positive attitude and team player
Open to new ideas and new practices

Responsibilities

Work with the modeling, texture and look dev teams to understand and define the best artistic orientation that corresponds to the concept and the supervisor’s vision
Create any kind of realistic fur, hair and feathers set ups that ensure proper motion
Create foliage or other natural elements that require a groom setup.
Take direction and offer creative groom alternatives to enhance the global look of the asset
Liaise with fellow CFX artists to ensure grooms translate when characters are in motion
Execute retake in a timely manner while respecting the milestones and production schedule.
Responsible to render and QC of fur elements
Organize your time and provide the work following provided quotas
Able to identify and troubleshoot technical or workflow issues and/or, relay them to the Head of Builds, CG Supervisor or pipeline team.
Participate to optimize the hair and fur pipeline