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About the Role

As an FX Artist at Black Kite, you will work across a wide variety of high-end VFX projects, creating realistic phenomena like smoke, fire, fluids, and explosions. You will also have the opportunity to work on stylized, design-led projects using simulation and procedural techniques, and apply broader TD & generalist skills.

Responsibilities

• Creating photo-real and stylised fluid, particle, rigid-body, cloth, fur and crowd simulations.
• Create & support FX setups and tools.
• Designing and developing innovative and creative technical solutions to create FX.
• Troubleshoot scenes, renders and the pipeline as necessary.
• Working effectively with other artists in a creative, collaborative team.
• Technically and creatively promote and maintain consistent shot quality and desired look.
• Deliver projects that look visually outstanding on time and on budget.
• Inspire a culture of creative innovation.
• Lighting and rendering of FX work for integration into VFX or full-CG shots and sequences.

Requirements

• Experience creating photo-real and stylised FX for VFX projects, ideally in Advertising.
• Thorough understanding of techniques and technologies related to FX and the wider VFX pipeline.
• Keen to use wider TD & generalist skills.
• Critical eye and a can-do problem-solving attitude.
• Keen eye for quality control and visual style.
• Excellent communicator.
• Excellent team player.
• Good working knowledge of nuke for creating pre-comps.
• Always strive to produce outstanding visual results.

Skills

• Houdini
• Arnold
• Mantra
• Nuke

About the Company

• Black Kite is an independent creative studio offering world-class visual effects and design.
• We are a talent-first, technology-inspired studio.
• Our community is home to a collective of world-class talent: artists, creators, designers, producers, and technologists making exceptional artistic visual content.
• Our ethos is to build a creative community with people and culture at its heart.
• We believe in creating a sustainable studio model that looks after our people and inspires them to create the extraordinary.
• We believe in taking good care of the environment and living and working well.
• We are creating a team working with the best creative clients and building an exciting future.
• We are proud of our people, our work, and our space.
• We want to create an environment where trying new things is exciting and different.
• Our purpose is to make brilliant creative work that engages audiences and lives long in the memory.
• We believe in talent, creativity, and innovation.
• Creativity is the differentiator at the heart of everything we do.
• We care about our people, look out for each other, and believe in doing things the right way.
• We place importance on a code of shared ethics and treating people fairly and with respect.
• We are committed to supporting ongoing career development and establishing personal progression plans.
• We believe in the power of teamwork and togetherness to achieve the extraordinary.
• We are big on ambition and excited about the future.

Equal Opportunity

• Black Kite Studios are committed to a policy of equal opportunity in all aspects of recruitment and employment regardless of age, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, gender identity or disability (whether registered as disabled or not).