FX Supervisor

About the role

Rodeo FX, a high-end visual effects, advertising, animation and experiential studio nominated for multiple Emmys and working with clients such as Netflix, HBO, Disney and Marvel, is looking for an FX Supervisor in Montreal. The supervisor owns the artistic vision, technical rigor and overall performance of their department on a project, ensuring visual effects (smoke, fire, particles, destructions, fluids, abstract effects) integrate seamlessly into the CG pipeline. They lead FX artists, support VFX supervision, collaborate with CG, comp and production teams, and help develop the pipeline.

Key responsibilities

• Creative quality: translate the project's artistic vision into directives for FX artists, take part in dailies, validate delivered effects against client intent and shot constraints, and intervene personally on complex shots.
• Technical quality: define technical standards, propose or validate tools and methods, document best practices, fix recurring problems, optimize caches, workfiles and setups.
• Leadership and communication: supervise and motivate FX artists, lead turnovers and technical meetings, delegate shots by artist level and specialty, and report critical issues promptly.
• Project management: evaluate workload with production, take part in FX casting, help set time estimates and priorities, monitor progress and support strategic submissions.
• Workflow strategies: design FX methodologies suited to style, budget and schedule, improve processes, build or adopt new tools, share learnings in post-mortems and keep FX, CG and comp pipelines consistent.

Required profile

• At least 5 years of experience as an FX Supervisor in a VFX environment.
• Confirmed experience supervising a team or managing a project.
• Strong artistic and technical skills, quick arbitration, positive leadership and clear communication.

Required skills

• Advanced Houdini (Pyro, Flip, RBD, Vellum, SOPs)
• Nuke, Arnold, Karma and Python scripting (functional knowledge)
• USD and Solaris
• Flow Production Tracking and a good grasp of the VFX pipeline

Assets: FX tool development, pipeline innovation initiatives and client presentations. Applications are submitted through the company's recruitment platform.