Rodeo FX

Senior Lookdev Artist - Multiple Positions

Montreal, QC, Canada · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago

PythonMayaCommunicationCollaborationCritical ThinkingOrganizational Skills

About the role

Repeatedly voted one of Montreal's Top Employers and Employer of the Year for the 2022 Mercuriades Awards, Rodeo FX is a high-end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential.
Current projects include Dune: Prophecy, Silo Season 2 and Sonic 3.
Recently released projects include The Rings of Power S eason 2, Venom: The Last Dance, Taika Waitit's Time Bandits, and House of the Dragon Season 2.

Develop complete looks by combining textures, shaders, and validation lighting tailored to production needs.
Create or refine textures to ensure visual and technical consistency of assets.
Produce validation renders (turntables, AOVs, benchmarks) to support dailies reviews.
Deliver robust, lighting-ready assets within deadlines and established standards.
Design physically plausible shaders optimized for production and pipeline compatibility.
Create, adapt, or fix textures (UVs, tiling, displacement, color space) to ensure performance in lookdev.
Build clean and efficient setups that support Lighting and Compositing workflows.
Collaborate closely with upstream and downstream teams to ensure smooth asset continuity.
Partner with Lighting and Compositing to ensure consistency in the final render.
Support the development of tools, templates, and best practices to improve production efficiency.

This role requires expertise in realistic texturing.
The artist must be able to create high-quality textures using photographic references, scans, digital painting, or procedural materials.
Propose clear and effective artistic solutions based on a strong understanding of materials and surfaces.
Minimum of 6 years of experience in lookdev and/or texturing in VFX or animation.
Strong proficiency in Houdini (Solaris/Karma) and/or Maya, as well as Nuke.

Familiarity with ShotGrid or similar production tracking tools.
Experience in tool development or scripting (Python).
Multiple temporary contracts available, with a strong possibility of extension.
The artist must also have strong expertise in realistic texturing to produce high-quality textures from photographic references, scans, digital painting, or procedural materials.
Diversity: At Rodeo FX, diversity is a core value.
We're committed to creating an inclusive, equitable workplace where different perspectives are embraced.
These tools never replace human decision-making: all final hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team and hiring managers.

At Rodeo FX, diversity is a core value.
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Nominated for multiple Emmy®
The Rings of Power, the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts close to 800 artists crafting from studios in Montreal, Québec City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Paris.
Rodeo FX is a creative partner to the world's best storytellers including Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros. and Sony, and has collaborated on ads for YouTube, NBC and Apple.

This listing is sourced directly from Rodeo FX's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.