Academy The Focus - FX

Job Description

Academy @ The Focus - FX (Games)

Academy @ The Focus is a virtual program preparing artists for their journey through the world's top visual effects studios through intensive training. Technicolor's diversified reach in visual effects enables us to guide, mentor, and train these artists to meet the highest industry standards.
Our virtual courses prepare you for a career in visual effects by working with industry experts on your creative, technical, procedural, and soft skills. They also provide a great opportunity to gain experience and expertise to build upon as you progress in your career.

A Games VFX artist should have a firm grasp of the artistic fundamentals of asset simulations and the ability to execute the same. They should be proactive in their pursuit of growth and development, with a goal of becoming more artistically independent.

This course will develop your skills in these areas:
• Basic and advanced real-time FX in Niagara and cascade system in unreal.
• Physical based rendering materials and workflow.
• Knowledge of colors and its uses.
• Basics of lighting and atmospherics.
• Basics of blueprint.
• Basics of sequencer.
• Optimization techniques for production procedural.

What we offer

You are applying to join the Academy @ The Focus course for Game VFX. This course is a guide to realistic, VFX for games. The course allows trainees to engage in a 14-week program, which prepares them to gain knowledge and boost confidence in various aspects of real-time FX. This course is designed to sharpen your skills to be the best Game VFX Artist you can be.

Some of the key responsibilities of the Trainee VFX artist include:
• Continuous learning.
• Practice and implementation of learning material.
• Prompt submission of assignments.
• Stake holder & team communication

Qualifications
• Recent graduates of bachelor's in art, animation, game design and illustration. Other graduates with basic animation knowledge can also apply.
• Must possess knowledge in Unreal engine Fx and any other pre render engine like Maya/3ds max, Photoshop.
• Houdini experience is an added advantage.
• Passion for Fx, game arts, self-motivation and communication forms an eligible candidate.
• All applicants will be asked to complete a standardized skills test.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjepw2-3-15-27-232-42 in your application.