CFX Artist The Tiger's Apprentice

Job Description

CFX Artist | The Tiger's Apprentice (Paramount Animation)

Mikros Animation is a global CGI animation studio 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.

Mikros Animation is working on several full CG features, including The Tiger's Apprentice, produced by Paramount Animation. The project is full of action and emotional moments and is full of human and creature performances.

We are looking for CFX artists, specializing in Cloth & Hair Simulation to join our great team! 

They will have for missions :
• Maintain previously created cloth assets, participate in the creation of new ones if needed
• Using Maya, create nCloth and nHair simulations
• Correct, if needed, cloth and hair simulations
• Ensure that the requested retakes are taken into account and follow up on them
• Respect the quotas given by the production
• Prepare presentation elements for reviews in Shotgun

Qualifications

Required skills...  
• Maya expertise, especially in nCloth & nHair
• Previous experience(s) in Cloth and Fur simulation

...And appreciated assets
• Knowledge of Python scripting
• Knowledge of Yeti and Marvelous Designer
• Good level of English

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmz6nm-18-191-228-88-42 in your application.