Lead Houdini FX Artist

4 weeks ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India One Of Us Full time
The Lead Houdini FX Artist is responsible for leading the FX team across sequences or shows. This includes task distribution, hands-on work, and cross-department collaboration to ensure high-quality, consistent FX delivery.

Requirements

Duties:

- Collaboration: Work closely with the VFX and CG supervisor to understand the FX requirements for the show and contribute a strategy and workflow to fulfil them. Ensure the consistent delivery of scalable, high-quality FX. Coordinate FX with layout, lighting, CFX, and comp.
- Team Management: Guide day to day work of the team supporting task breakdowns, assignment, priorities. Act as the go-to contact for FX team progress and troubleshooting. Balancing hands-on work with oversight responsibilities
- Team mentorship: Foster a supportive, productive, and communicative team culture. Coaching and providing feedback and development opportunities
- Quality Control: Review FX setups and renders to ensure visual and technical consistency. Help plan, troubleshoot, and improve cross-show FX efficiency.
- Hero FX: Create key FX setups and FX elements where needed for assets, shots or sequences.
- Pipeline Alignment: Liaise with pipeline and dev teams to improve toolsets and caching.
- Scheduling Support: Work with production to track task progress and resolve blockers.
- Workflow Development: Help define and refine FX workflow standards and templates for clean networks, naming conventions, version control, and caching standards.
- Feedback: Respond to notes from supervisors quickly and effectively. Be open to feedback and work iteratively to reach final quality.
- Communication: Keep the team updated on progress and flag blockers early.

Skills, attributes and experience:

- Expert-level Houdini artist with broad simulation experience.
- Strong understanding of FX integration into lighting and comp.
- Able to balance creative vision with technical constraints.
- Experience working in USD-based FX pipelines.
- Ability to scope, test, and spec new tools with pipeline.
- Familiarity with ShotGrid or other task-tracking tools.
- 7+ years in VFX or a related field

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