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In this dual leadership and hands-on role, you will lead shows, build and refine pipeline setups and workflows, help with crewing, oversee team performance and growth, as well as directly create photorealistic textures and shaders for complex assets.\n Department & Team Leadership\nAssign tasks, mentor artists, and ensure the department delivers top-tier organic and hard-surface assets for high-end VFX.\n\nAssist with hiring, crewing decisions, talent reviews, and ongoing performance management.\n\nEnforce strict department Quality Control (QC) standards across all published assets before downstream delivery.\n\nCreative Execution & Look Development\nBuild high-detail textures from internal art or client-supplied references.\n\nLead look development and shading in Arnold for Houdini, delivering physically accurate materials for creatures, characters, and hard-surface assets that hold up in shot context.\n\nPartner closely with the Lighting team to verify that assets lookdev behaves consistently photoreal\n\nBuild optimized procedural shading networks and custom material setups when production requires it.\n\nPipeline, Technical & Production\nCollaborate with the Head of CG and Technical Directors (TDs) to establish department best practices within the studio's existing pipeline.\n\nWork directly with Production, Modeling, FX, CFX and Lighting teams to design sequence-specific workflows for maximum efficiency.\n\nAssist Production with project bidding, asset scope estimates, and schedule management to hit key delivery milestones.\n\nExplore new tools and methodologies to drive department efficiency and elevate visual quality.\n\nStandardize, ingest, and integrate texture and lookdev packages delivered by external vendors.\n\nWrite and maintain comprehensive technical documentation and pipeline guides.\n\n5+ years proven track record leading or supervising artists within a film/high-end VFX production studio environment.\n\nDemonstrated experience texturing and shading complex organic CG creatures and digital humans.\n\nAdvanced knowledge of Mari/Substance Painter, and Photoshop.\n\nDeep expertise in shader creation, materials accuracy and AOVs.\n\nStrong Assets \nKnowledge of Arnold and Houdini\n\nKnowledge of Nuke\n\nHas experience with Copernicus, Machine Learning and AI tools\n\nDeep knowledge of characters/creatures build workflows\n\n Our passion for innovation and our team’s creativity are recognized throughout the industry and remain the cornerstone of our work philosophy. 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