LookDev Artist

Company Description

Repeatedly voted one of Montreal’s Top Employers and Employer of the Year for the 2022 Mercuriades Awards, Rodeo FX is a high-end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential.

Nominated for 3 Emmy® Awards for its work on the series Stranger Things season 4, The Witcher season 2 and Foundation season 1, the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts close to 800 artists.

Rodeo FX is a creative partner to the world’s best storytellers including Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros. and Sony, and has collaborated on ads for YouTube, NBC and Apple. Current projects include Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Resident Evil, Halo, and Stranger Things season 4. Recently released projects include Dune, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, WandaVision and The Witcher season 2, all earning nominations at the 2022 VES awards.

Job Description

The Lookdev Artist creates shading to ensure that models and textures are combined into hyper-realistic assets, ensuring to meet the high-quality standards of Rodeo FX. They may also be required to create realistic or stylized lighting setups to integrate the asset in shots.

Main responsibilities:

• Develop looks to ensure assets can be properly lit and are technically correct to help create hyper-realistic passes;
• Take assets from the texturing department and push surface qualities further in terms of realism;
• Finalize assets technically and artistically, validating work with turntables and various tech checks;
• Create lighting setups that become reference shots for sequences;
• Set up Nuke scripts that will be used by the compositing and lighting department;
• Set up and maintain a preset shader bank for different surface qualities;
• Create light rigs to finalize shots which include the assets. These may be matching existing plates through the use of HDRi and reference images, or completely cg for animated projects.
• Work closely with the CG and Asset Supervisor to find creative and technical solutions and approaches that enhance assets and shots, while meeting project specifications and deadlines;
• May participate in the development of tools and techniques for the department;
• Perform quality control on assets before they are submitted for review/approval, ensuring all technical and creative standards are met, and promptly apply notes received;
• Keep Production and the project team informed of the status of work, issues to be resolved, ramifications of problems encountered and recommend potential solutions;
• Ensure deadlines are met, advising the project team promptly if delays could be expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar position, within the VFX industry;
• Excellent knowledge of Katana software and Nuke;
• Good knowledge of Arnold; 
• Excellent sense of prioritization and respect for deadlines.

Additional Information

• 2 additional statutory holidays in the winter holidays ;
• Use of advanced technological equipment;
• New high-end facilities, located 5 minutes from the Gare de l'Est train station, with access to a dining area (including appropriate equipment for storing and heating food and beverages).

Diversity is a core value at Rodeo FX. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable work environment where diversity is celebrated and valued. We believe every member on our team enriches our work by exposing us to a broad range of ways to perceive and interact with the world, identify challenges, and to design and deliver projects.