Lighting Artist Houdini - Senior - Temporary contract

Repeatedly voted one of Montreal’s Top Employers and Employer of the Year for the 2022 Mercuriades Awards, Rodeo FX is a high-end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential.

Nominated for multiple Emmy® Awards for its work on the series Stranger Things season 4, The Witcher season 2, and The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power season 1, the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts close to 900 artists crafting from studios in Montreal, Québec City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Paris.

Rodeo FX is a creative partner to the world’s best storytellers including Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros., and Sony, and has collaborated on ads for YouTube, NBC, and Apple. Current projects include Blue Beetle, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. Recently released projects include John Wick: Chapter 4, Black Adam, Disney's The Little Mermaid, and Love, Death and Robots Volume 3, for which the company won a 2023 VES award.

The Lighting Artist will create lighting and shading techniques and deliver final renders for the Compositing Department, ensuring to meet the high-quality standards of Rodeo FX.

Main responsibilities:

• Develop lighting setups in 3D and troubleshoot rendering issues;
• Work closely with the CG and Lighting Supervisors to find creative and technical solutions and approaches that enhance shots, while meeting project specifications and deadlines;
• May participate in the development of tools and techniques for the department;
• Perform quality control on shots before they are submitted for review/approval, ensuring all technical and creative standards are met, and promptly apply notes received;
• Keep Production and the project team informed of the status of work, issues to be resolved, ramifications of problems encountered and recommend potential solutions;
• Ensure deadlines are met, advising the project team promptly if delays could be expected. 

• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Lighting Artist in the VFX industry, working on photorealistic projects.
• Excellent proficiency in Houdini and Solaris, with several years of hands-on experience.
• Strong expertise in Nuke and Arnold.
• Very good knowledge of Flow Production Tracking.

• 6-month renewable CDDU (fixed-term contract).
• On-site position at our studio, located 5 minutes from Gare de l'Est

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