CG Supervisor

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 including Sonic 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