FX 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.

• Accurately interpret concept art and design, as well as create and gather reference to complete FX tasks
• Deliver high quality work while reliably understanding applying feedback from Team Leader and Supervisor
• Take ownership in ensuring proper QC is applied to all tasks
• Identify and flag issues that may interfere with on-time deliveries, and offer solutions
• Attend and actively participate in creative and production meetings

Qualifications

FX Essentials:
• Understanding of element's behavior and Animation Principals.
• Should have a good balance of visual and problem-solving technical skills with regard to the production schedule and set milestones
• Good understanding to interpret concept art, design, animatic and feedback notes.
• Self-motivated work ethic with honest and good communication skills, and a great team-player attitude

Any of the following technical skills is a bonus:
• Good Production experience in Maya, Houdini and Nuke.
• Experience with RealFlow, phoenix fd, FumeFX a plus
• Experience in lighting and rendering with V-Ray, Arnold, Redshift
• Ability to script in Python, MEL, Hscript and HDK are plus

Any of the following experience is a great advantage:
• Production experience using FX tools in Episode/web Series/ film/commercials
• Experience in Crowd simulation is a Plus
• Experience in Creating FX rig is a plus

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmv24v-3-140-185-123-42 in your application.