Crowd FX Artist

Description

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Crowd FX Artist to join the team at our Burbank, CA studio.

The Crowd FX Artist will apply their creative and technical skills to populate Walt Disney Animation Studio projects with world-class crowds. They will be part of the film-making 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 towards 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.