FIN VFX is currently looking for a CG Supervisor to join our growing team.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate creative leader to build, grow, and evolve with the FIN studio.
Join a distinguished team of animation and VFX artists who have produced a great variety of incredible work includingSonic 3,The Creator,Alien: Romulus,Antman vs Wasp: Quantumania, Elvis, Thor: Love and Thunder, Extraction 2, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Shang Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings, Lost in Space, and I Am Mother.
Our Offer to You
- The opportunity to join a growing, independent, and vibrant multi-award winning studio
- The satisfaction to problem solve for major international film, episodic and commercial projects
- Work with a global team of talented artists, producers and technicians
- Competitive remuneration package with flexible hours and work model
Your Responsibilities
- Successfully produce high quality photo-real and stylised CG work. Working closely with VFX Supervisor to interpret the client’s creative vision, oversee every aspect of CG production.
- Explore various creative and technical approaches, giving and receiving feedback, and manage a team through competing priorities and deadlines.
- Devising and implementing pipeline configurations and workflows that suit the technical and creative needs of the project.
- Collaborating with Department Supervisors and Leads in supervising artists to achieve the artistic goals of the production.
- Collaborating with Production to ensure project milestones are met within schedule and budget.
- Collaborating with 2D to ensure smooth workflow between 3D and 2D departments.
- Assisting in all technical aspects of VFX production throughout the entire CG pipeline, including project set up, interdisciplinary troubleshooting, to asset delivery to Comp.
- A team player at all times with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work collaboratively.
- Run effective and productive Dailies and set overall technical approach and direction for CG artists on any given project.
- Working with the Head of CG to design and implement tools across the department and verify technical solutions proposed by the Team.
- Coordinating solutions with the Technical Directors (TDs) in solving problems the production faces on a day-to-day basis.
- Keeping up on current technology trends and tools that best suits the development of a stronger creative technical environment at Fin Design + Effects.
- Working with the management and leadership team to identify development needs for future projects.
- Ability to juggle several tasks in a highly efficient manner.
Qualifications
- 5+ years experience as the CG supervisor on high caliber VFX film and TV episodic projects
- Thorough understanding and experience in combining VFX elements into live action plates
- Excellent organisational and communication skills with the ability to juggle several tasks in a highly efficient manner
- A team leader who is able to effectively communicate with people at all levels, technical and non-technical crew
- A team player at all times with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work collaboratively
- Extensive technical knowledge of VFX production and CG pipelines
- Thorough understanding and command of the Houdini and USD pipeline for feature film and episodic projects.
- Comfortable with a Windows environment
- Excellent working knowledge of Houdini USD workflow
- Excellent working knowledge of Solaris, Karma, Katana, Redshift and/or Arnold is an asset
- Technical aptitude to identify and solve technical problems as they arise
- Experience working with Shotgrid or similar programs
- Knowledge of NUKE is a plus
- On-set VFX experience is a plus
