FX Technical Director — High-End Film VFX Lead

Framestore Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Framestore Limited is seeking an ANFX Technical Director to lead high-end FX work for feature films. You will create CG renditions of natural and magical phenomena and oversee simulations while collaborating with directors, producers, and other departments to ensure shots meet the highest standards.

You will use Houdini as the primary FX package alongside Maya, contribute to pipelines, design procedural solutions, and mentor FX artists.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in FX simulations (smoke, fire, fluids, explosions).
• Strong knowledge of Houdini, Maya and pipeline tools.
• Experience leading FX teams and delivering high-end VFX for film.

Responsibilities

• Create particle, rigid-body, soft-body, fluid simulations and animations.
• Apply lighting and shading to final renders or pass to Lighting TD.
• Use Houdini as primary FX package; collaborate across departments.
• Lead the team to explore design solutions for FX effects.
• Develop and implement procedural approaches for effects creation.
• Produce reviewable composites of FX elements; sometimes final renders.

Skills

Houdini

Maya

Scripting (Python)

Team leadership

FX simulation

Procedural thinking

Rendering techniques

Motion understanding

VEX scripting

Tools

Nuke

USD

Alembic

Job description

Framestore Limited is seeking an ANFX Technical Director to lead high-end FX work for feature films. You will create CG renditions of natural and magical phenomena and oversee simulations while collaborating with directors, producers, and other departments to ensure shots meet the highest standards.

You will use Houdini as the primary FX package alongside Maya, contribute to pipelines, design procedural solutions, and mentor FX artists.