Senior FX TD - Houdini Simulations & Lighting (Hybrid)

One Of Us; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Volunteer days

Hybrid working

Company pension

Life insurance

Healthcare cover

Social events

Job summary

One of Us is seeking a skilled FX TD to design and implement advanced FX, Houdini-based simulations and shaders for feature projects. The role blends lighting, rendering and moderate compositing, with guidance from supervisors. A strong scripting and pipeline mindset is required for efficient production.

We value collaboration and fast learning in a hybrid setup across our London and Paris studios, with studio-based days and core hours to suit international collaboration.

Qualifications

• Proven production or feature-film FX simulation experience.
• Advanced Houdini simulation with expressions.
• Ability to work in a team with minimal supervision to complete a shot.
• Excellent listening and communication skills in dailies/shot review.
• Willingness to learn and adapt quickly with new techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design FX animation, procedural and dynamic simulations.
• Light complex creatures and elements.
• Set up and wrangle heavy particle effects shots.
• Excellent pipeline scripting ability.
• Solid compositing ability, wrangling blue-screen extractions in Nuke.
• Write plug-ins, debug simulations and write shaders.
• Create feature-film quality effects using Houdini.

Skills

Houdini

Python scripting

Nuke proficient

Procedural authoring

Pipeline scripting

Tools

Nuke

Houdini

Python

Job description

One of Us is seeking a skilled FX TD to design and implement advanced FX, Houdini-based simulations and shaders for feature projects. The role blends lighting, rendering and moderate compositing, with guidance from supervisors. A strong scripting and pipeline mindset is required for efficient production.

We value collaboration and fast learning in a hybrid setup across our London and Paris studios, with studio-based days and core hours to suit international collaboration.