Crowd FX Artists

Description

We are seeking Crowd FX Artists to join our Burbank, CA studio. Our Crowd FX Artists apply their creative and technical skills to populate Walt Disney Animation Studio projects with world-class crowds. They will be part of the filmmaking process from asset creation through early shot layout to final rendering.

Responsibilities

• Apply creative and technical skills to create great-looking crowds
• Design crowd character behavior from scratch within Houdini and Massive
• Create crowd versions of character geometry, materials, and rigs with an eye toward variation and efficiency
• Identify and breakdown behaviors into cycles for artists to animate
• Work with the larger production to populate shots with crowds from early layout to final rendering
• Be a strong collaborator during brainstorming and problem-solving sessions
• Identify opportunities to share knowledge and educate others on production process