FX TD

With offices in London, LA and Vancouver, MPC is one of the world's leading visual effects studios creating high-end VFX for the television and feature film industries. Managing large numbers of digital assets and developing cutting edge productivity tools is vital to our continued success. This is the responsibility of our Pipeline Engineering team where our Vancouver studio now seeks to appoint a Pipeline Software Engineer develop our workflow and asset management tools to meet the needs of upcoming film productions.

FX Technical Directors gather a variety of 3D assets produced by our Layout and Animation departments and use our cutting-edge proprietary toolset to create particle, rigid body, fluid, cloth, fur and hair simulations.

Primary Responsibilities:
• Uses an array of commercial and proprietary software tools to produce photorealistic simulations of real-world phenomena while developing innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Produces test and often final renders of FX elements for a shot.
• Creates working test composites for review by the supervision team.
• Works in partnership with lighters & compositors to ensure shots are delivered to the very highest standard.

Skills and Experience:
• Proven experience in feature, commercials or broadcast visual effects production (or plenty of raw talent if you're a recent graduate), with a showreel to back this up.
• Experience in live action FX work preferred.
• Good understanding of the entire visual effects process.
• An eye for details, good sense of timing, and through understanding of techniques and technologies relating to physical simulation in computer graphics.
• The ability to think clearly and creatively under pressure.
• Good proficiency with Autodesk Maya, strong scripting skills in MEL, with Python, C/C++ programming and shell scripting a plus.
• Knowledge of Pixar's PRMan renderer preferred.
• Familiarity with at least one node based compositing application (Shake and/or Nuke preferred), and a solid understanding of the compositing process.
• Good computer skills, particularly with the UNIX/Linux command line.

Salary: Competitive remuneration package
Location: Vancouver
Application Closing Date: Ongoing recruitment

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the dynamic world of visual effects.