Groom Artist: Creature & Feather VFX Specialist (Hybrid

Job Position(s): Groom Artist: Creature & Feather VFX Specialist (Hybrid

One Of Us, the London-based VFX studio, is hiring a Groom Artist: Creature & Feather VFX Specialist on a hybrid basis. This role sits within the creature department, responsible for delivering photorealistic groom assets that hold up to scrutiny across feature film and high-end television productions. It is a strong fit for an experienced groom artist who can move fluently between technically demanding workflows and the creative interpretation of concept and reference material.

About the Role

The Groom Artist: Creature & Feather VFX Specialist works inside One Of Us’s creature pipeline, building hero grooms for characters that range from grounded naturalistic animals to fully original fantasy creatures. Day to day, this means translating practical reference into geometry-level groom builds, iterating with look development and lighting teams to ensure assets read correctly in final composites, and contributing to VFX pipeline conversations as grooming tools and workflows evolve across projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Build photorealistic fur, hair, and feather grooms for creature assets across multiple simultaneous productions, maintaining consistency with approved look development targets.
• Interpret reference photography, concept art, and on-set data to construct grooms that convincingly translate fantasy creature designs into production-ready assets.
• Develop and maintain feather systems with a working understanding of layering, clumping, and distribution controls within the grooming toolset.
• Contribute to grooming workflow discussions, identifying efficiencies or pipeline improvements that benefit the wider creature department.
• Collaborate directly with rigging, simulation, and lighting departments to ensure groom assets perform correctly through the full VFX pipeline.
• Deliver assets to brief within production schedules, maintaining documentation and asset hygiene to studio standards.

What You Bring

• Demonstrated experience as a groom artist on feature film or episodic television productions, with credits that include creature or character work.
• Strong working knowledge of Houdini or Ornatrix, with practical experience grooming both fur and feather systems.
• Ability to read and apply reference material accurately, including photographic, practical, and illustrated sources for creature design.
• Solid understanding of how groom assets interact with simulation and lighting at the VFX pipeline level.
• Good communication habits when working across departments during active production cycles.

Why This Role

One Of Us has a track record on high-profile feature film and television projects, with creature work that spans grounded period productions and large-scale fantasy. The studio operates on a hybrid model from its London base, offering 25 days holiday and healthcare cover alongside the creature department work. For a groom artist looking to work consistently on varied creature briefs, this is a department with genuine breadth.

Apply now for the Groom Artist: Creature & Feather VFX Specialist position at One Of Us and take the next step in your creature VFX career.