Effects Animator

Penrose Studios crafts ground-breaking immersive stories, and needs your help building a platform for this new artistic medium. We need animators to create awe-inspiring visual effects for our virtual reality experiences. You’ll create real time effects such as fire, water, smoke, clouds, and a variety of other phenomena.

Responsibilities

• Build effects systems for real time animation
• Design particle and fluid simulations to create stunning effects
• Collaborate with graphics engineers to utilize proprietary effects systems
• Collaborate with creative leadership to design effects elements
• Design, implement, and maintain tools for a new VR production pipeline

Requirements

• 3+ years experience as an animator in film, commercials or game effects.
• Strong eye for motion and lighting for effects elements
• Knowledge of Python or other scripting languages
• Knowledge of Houdini effects tools
• Demo reel that demonstrates previous effects work

Preferred

• Knowledge of C++
• Experience creating effects in Unreal Engine
• Experience with virtual reality
• Knowledge of real time effects techniques
• Ability to profile and optimize effects systems
• Knowledge of Maya, FumeFX, or other effects packages