FX Artist

Job Description

For the last century, Walt Disney Animation Studios has been combining the best in artistry and storytelling with cutting-edge technology to bring wonderful new characters and visual spectacle to the big screen for audiences around the world. We currently have an exciting opportunity for Effects Animators to join our world class award winning team at our brand new Vancouver, BC studio, where you can be part of shaping the future of Effects at Walt Disney Animation.

Effects Animators create a wide variety of visual effects that range from hyper-realistic simulations of natural phenomena, to realizing the futuristic and the completely fantastical. They are expected to exercise their technical and artistic talents in collaboration with other artists from all disciplines to create the appealing, compelling and unexpected images that support the emotional beats of the film.

Hybrid and Remote opportunities for our Vancouver Studio are specific to remote work within the province of British Columbia.

Responsibilities
• Bring a strong sense of personal authorship and art direction to visuals, while meeting the artistic vision of the Director and Production Designer
• Ability to execute on a range of visuals, from the photoreal to the wholly imagined. This include the development, shading, lighting, rendering and basic compositing of effects to help showcase a given effect's full potential
• Collaborate with other artistic departments to achieve desired look for effects elements
• Communicate regularly with the production team to establish and meet expectations and deadlines
• Develop innovative tools and workflows necessary to achieve technical and visual goals
• Generate effects with an awareness of how they will be received and used by other departments, with a mind towards data efficiency and consumability
• Participate in team discussions and critiques
• Work with Effects department leadership to develop and enforce artistic and technical goals for projects and/or teams

Requirements
• Experience in effects for animation, live-action film, television or games
• Proficiency with SideFX's Houdini. Knowledge of Solaris, Katana or similar software is a plus
• Comfortable using, or willingness and ability to learn, various effects animation techniques including procedural animation, keyframing, scripting and simulations such as rigid bodies, soft bodies, fluids, particle dynamics, etc. Flip fluid experience is a plus
• Open to taking technical and artistic direction, as well as having a self critical eye for addressing notes and feedback from peers and leadership
• Attentive to detail and quality in work
• Intrinsic drive to improve technical and artistic skills and embrace a studio culture that strives to innovate and change
• Ability to clearly convey artistic and technical concepts, challenges and processes
• Keen understanding of animation and film making fundamentals, including timing, silhouette, appeal, light, color, composition, etc.
• Familiarity with Linux and Python scripting is a plus

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Disney Animation continues to build on its rich legacy of innovation and creativity, from the first fully-animated feature film, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, to our 62nd animated feature, Wish, releasing November 2023. Among the studio's timeless creations are Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, and Encanto.

This position is with Walt Disney Animation Studios Vancouver Inc., which is part of a business we call Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk55jp-18-216-233-58-42 in your application.