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Create and refine materials and shading for characters, environments, and props. Collaborate with texture and asset teams, follow art direction, solve shading/rendering issues, optimize scenes, and iterate based on feedback to ensure consistent looks across lighting scenarios.

Support and optimize high-end animation pipelines and workflows. Develop and maintain scripts, tools, and utilities (primarily Python). Troubleshoot artist issues, collaborate with supervising animators and pipeline teams, author training materials, and implement workflow optimizations to improve efficiency across productions.

Develop and maintain character effects pipeline and production CFX for cloth, hair, feathers, muscles, and rigid bodies. Build Python-based pipeline tools and scripts, optimize simulations, troubleshoot setups, mentor CFX artists, and collaborate with Rigging, Animation, and Surfacing to integrate assets and improve workflows and visual quality.

Design and develop procedural tools in Houdini for various departments. Collaborate with artists and engineers to optimize workflows and support production pipelines.

FX Artists are responsible for creating and animating digital effects using software like Houdini, ensuring high-quality effects align with production needs.

The Layout Artist translates storyboards and instructions into 3D sequences, working on camera composition, geometry, and character blocking while collaborating with the production team.

Designs and implements lighting for characters and environments, ensuring continuity and meeting art direction for production shots.

The Pipeline TD creates and refines technical aspects of the Maya animation pipeline, developing tools for efficient animation production and managing workflows.

Compositors at Sony Pictures Imageworks combine various media layers to create final images, ensuring seamless transitions and meeting art direction.

Creates 3D layouts from storyboards, manages camera composition, collaborates within the team, and meets production schedules. Requires strong design skills and technical software knowledge.