CFX Artist

Job Description

Mikros Animation is a global CGI animation studio, part of Technicolor Creative Studios, located in Paris, Montreal, Los Angeles, Bangalore and London, dedicated to feature films and episodic content. Since its inception, Mikros Animation has always put creativity and CG artistry at the heart of its animation and production activities, allowing our artists to work across a great variety of stories with a high level of stylized craft. So far, Mikros Animation has contributed to ten released feature animations and to numerous high-quality animated series, for the world's best-known animation studios, either as creative studio, line producer or executive producer. Mikros Animation has also produced more than 250 hours of programming, broadcast by notable channels including Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, TF1, France TV, Gulli, M6, Gloob, and Super RTL. Our animated episodic content airs and streams globally, in over 180 countries.

At Mikros Animation, we believe great animation is about making real connections with real people. By partnering with filmmakers to unite their creative visions, with our industry-leading craftsmanship and artistry, we create characters that connect with audiences on an authentic and emotional level to bring powerful stories to life.

We are looking for below skills, expertise from CFX candidates.

GROOMING:

1. Should be skilled in xGen (interactive & legacy), nHair ,Yeti grooming.
2. Houdini knowledge would be added advantage.
3. Should have basic knowledge in model, UV, texturing, rigging & lighting.
4. Should have knowledge of various render engines specially vray & arnold
5. Katana knowledge would be added advantage.
6. Should be able to create/tweak the hair shader.
7. Should have knowledge of Photoshop, Mari, Mudbox.

SHOT CFX:

1. Should have nCloth & nHair production knowledge.
2. Should have knowledge of cloth rig setup & creation of hair rig dynamic setup.
3. Houdini vellum knowledge would be added advantage.
4. Marvelous designer would be added advantage.

Qualifications

The details above provide an outline of the key requirements for candidates to apply for a role in this department. At Animation & Games, we have a number of job classifications within our artist team structure. These are broadly:
• Junior Artist
• Artist
• Senior Artist
• Lead

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzmop3-18-191-88-249-42 in your application.