FX TD- Expression of Interest (Hiring Immediately)

Please Note: Due to contract lengths, we can only consider UK based candidates

A multi-Oscar-winning creative studio, we have worked with some of the greatest storytellers in film today. Collaborating with directors and producers across the complete filmmaking process to help design, plan and create beautiful images, we focus on finding innovative creative solutions to support their vision and set new standards for visual effects in cinema.

Who We Are
Framestore combines talent and technology to bring life to everything we create, whether in film, TV, advertising or immersive experiences. Driven by creativity and inspired by the future, we set out daily to reframe the possible.

The Role
As AN FX Technical Director at Framestore you'll be tasked with creating CG renditions of naturalistic physical or magical phenomena. You'll bring to life the wonder of visual effects in high-end films.

Responsibilities:

• Creating particle, rigid-body, soft-body, fluid, cloth, fur and/or hair simulations or animations

• Applying lighting and shaders to produce the final rendered image or passing the simulation on to a Lighting Technical Director

• Using a variety of commercial and proprietary FX tools, including Houdini as the primary FX package

• Working in partnership with other departments to ensure that shots are delivered to the highest possible standard

• Leading and working within the team to determine the various design solutions needed to create the effects

• Designing and creating images, elements, effects, pipelines, tools and techniques

• Helping to design solutions involving a more procedural approach in order to create the effects required

• Producing reviewable composites of all FX elements for a shot. Sometimes, FX TDs will be expected to produce final renders too