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cfx lead - Montreal, Canada - Reel FX Creative Studios
Description
Job Summary:
CFX Leads works with the CFX Supervisors to create and execute the Director's vision of fur and cloth on the production.
Responsibilities:
• Develop and maintain all department documentation of current pipeline and techniques
• Training new hires in department standards, worflow, and techniques.
• Guiding and mentoring artists in advancing their work towards asset/shot approval.
• Work well with team members in an advisory role and can show them process and troubleshooting.
• Cloth:
? Prepares the assets for cloth simulation, including and not limited to creating the cloth simulation rig for the asset.
? Leads the development of a cloth simulation rig for an asset, including and limited to the development and exploration of character cloth motion and defining their baseline default parameters.
? Run realistic, stylized and complex cloth shot simulations in a production environment
? Performs corrective shapes and sculpting fixes for cloth simulation in shot.
? Develop complex garments for use in shot work for Unreal Engine.
? Ingest, render and QC of cloth elements for Unreal Engine.
• Fur:
? Procedurally groom hero-level and complex hair and fur using XGen.
? Discover new techniques to achieve groom direction in the most efficient and flexible way and shares them with the team.
? Prepares the approved groom for animation rigging.
? Prepares the approved groom for simulation, including and not limited to creating the fur simulation rig for the asset to be used in Unreal Engine.
? Leads the development of a fur simulation rig for an asset, including and limited to the development and exploration of character hair motion and defining their baseline default parameters.
? Run realistic and stylized fur simulations in a production environment
? Ingest, render and QC of cloth elements for Unreal Engine.
Education and Experience:
• Unreal Engine:
? Solid experience with Unreal.
? Blueprints scripting proficiency as well as Python skills.
• Cloth:
? Solid experience with cloth solvers, including Unreal Engine's chaos cloth solver.
? Soid knowledge of the physics of motion and timing, cloth and hair motion.
? Advanced to Expert knowledge of cloth and rigging techniques.
• Fur:
? Advanced to Expert understanding of current grooming systems and techniques.
? Advanced to Expert understanding with xGen or other grooming packages.
? Advanced to Expert understanding of general grooming toolsets and is able to troubleshoot.
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in film/animation/vfx.
• Degree/diploma in fine arts/computer science or equivalent experience.
• Advanced to Expert knowledge of Maya.
• Advanced to Expert knowledge of Unreal Engine.
• Expertise in Unreal Engine feature sets such as collisions, chaos cloth, Animation Sequencer.
• Knowledge of MEL, Python, C++ or other scripting language is a plus.
• Demo reel demonstrating abilities with shot breakdown.
