Lead Crowd Simulation Artist

This is a Full Time Job

Pixomondo is seeking a skilled Lead Crowd Artist to manage and oversee the creation of realistic crowd simulations for our upcoming projects. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and creative vision to ensure that our digital crowd scenes are both dynamic and believable, enhancing the storytelling in our visual effects work.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the crowd simulation efforts on various projects, ensuring quality and ease of use within production workflows.
• Collaborate with Directors and other department heads to create realistic crowd behaviors that align with the project's artistic vision.
• Develop and implement crowd simulation techniques and pipelines using Houdini
• Lead the creation of crowd assets, including animations, shaders, and materials relevant to crowd simulations.
• Optimize crowd simulations for varying budgetary and technical constraints.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior artists and facilitate knowledge sharing within the team.
• Continuously research and experiment with new crowd simulation technologies and techniques to enhance production processes.
• Ensure that all crowd-related elements are delivered on time and to the highest standard.
• Prototype, develop and extend current Houdini crowd pipelines.
• Manage and organize motion for crowds
• Animation and simulations on shots or sequences
• Creating show-specific tools and setups to complement the crowd pipeline.
• Setting-up / troubleshooting crowd simulations
• Setup and run cloth simulations on Crowd

Qualifications:
• Strong knowledge of Houdini Software
• Strong crowd and layout skills including asset integration, scene setup and running simulations
• • Experience working on high end VFX or animated feature-film productions
• Experience working with motion capture and/or clip-based animation.
• Experience with VEX, Python and Houdini APIs
• Experience with Arnold