HIVE-FX is recruiting top 3D creature artists for the new NBC television series Grimm. We’re looking for senior and junior artists to tackle 3-4 creatures per episode. Great knowledge of a 3D pipeline and speed is required. You must be cool too!
Television production moves at an incredible rate and HIVE-FX is providing feature quality creature VFX on a series budget and pace. You must like to work hard and love what you do to keep up with this show. The rewards are huge for your reel - guaranteed. Grimm is expected to be one of the top new series this fall and the creature designs are killer.
HIVE is a chill, fun studio environment on the river in downtown Portland, OR. The only distraction is an infrequent train, but we’ll provide headphones so you can keep on working. Portland has more than 15 breweries within 5 miles of the studio, so no time off is wasted and bikes are a dominant mode or transportation here. Kiss those long commutes goodbye and enjoy the music from over 1 million local bands!
Skills required:
- Advanced character modeling & surfacing
- Match lighting
- Rigging
- Hair & Fur
- Kick ass creature skills!
Additional skills desired:
- Tracking
- Animation
- On set supervision
- Clean data organization
- Team collaboration
- Takes direction well
- Efficient and precise
- Did we mention kick ass creature skills?!?
Software Used:
- ZBrush
- Maya
- Max
- C4D
- Mental Ray
- Vray
- Renderman
- Relight
- Photoshop
- After Effects
- Nuke
*A 3D head model and surface test may be required for applicants, based on character designs we will provide.
**Artists must work on-site in our Portland, OR facility.
Please apply with resume and work links to [email protected] with “3D artist-Grimm” in the subject line.
Beginners, prima donnas, big egos and 9-5ers need not apply!