Houdini FX-Artist, Senior
We offer a creative working environment in a fast changing industry.

We are The Pack, based in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia.

The Company:

Talented artists working on every aspect of digital imagery, supported by a powerful infrastructure and a solid production team.

We create stunning VFX work for movies, TV series and high-end advertising.

We enjoy bringing characters to life in high-end commercials, live-action and animation features and series. We also develop games and hybrid VR projects.

We offer our employees a creative working environment and the possibility to work together with a team of professionals from all fields of creative technology in a fast changing industry.

The Position:

We are seeking Houdini FX Artists of senior level. Applicants will work closely together with our Art Director, CG Supervisor and the whole team to create consistent, high quality, and performant cinematic visual FX. The FX Artist will work within FX department standards, troubleshoot creative and technical issues, and participate in FX department tool development where possible. Will work alongside our Lighting Artists and Compositors to ensure that all effects will work smoothly within the provided show pipeline.

Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of Houdini, FX workflows, tools and pipelines.
• Understand and work within the studio, show structure and pipeline
• Design, create and implement high quality and stylized effects, complex FX animation, procedural modelling, destruction, particle and fluid systems, and rigid body simulations. High level skill to create assets and shots with a trained eye for photorealism.
• Work together with TDs and Pipeline development to improve the FX process
• Integrate created elements into scenes with lighting and shading
• Knowledge of crowd simulations and grooming in Houdini FX
• Master VFX industry standard 3D softwares, notions of Maya and Nuke are a plus.
• Ability to manage complex scenes and data sets in a fast paced production.
• Handle assignments with a flexible approach to find creative and technical solutions and think outside of the box if needed.
• Use, develop, document and implement existing and new workflows and tools to improve continuity and speed of the above processes.
• Stay current with latest technologies, methods and workflows
• Scripting experience in Python and VEX is a plus.
• Willingness to grow, learn new methods and share knowledge/mentor other FX artists in the team
• Adaptable to change of direction during production and in tight deadlines
• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or creative field or relevant experience in an FX position.
• 5+ years of FX experience in commercials, film or TV

Responsibilities:

• Communicate and coordinate with the Producer and CG Supervisor for fluent and high standard FX deliveries.
• Manage all digital FX assets throughout our projects and workflows and ensure their creative and technical quality.
• Task Driven, self-motivated and proactive
• Must demonstrate attention to detail in finishing of FX in shots 

Why Should You Apply?

• You want to be challenged in a technological, fast-changing industry.
• You want to work on great projects that have an impact on your colleagues and our clients.
• You think we can learn from you.
• That you will extend our unique team.
• That you can have a big impact on our brand and products.
• Work on amazing animation, VR and game content.

Please mail us your CV, showreel, Artstation profile, and all your info to **** and we’ll get back to you asap.

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