CFX Artist

Untold Studios is hiring a CFX Artist based in Toronto, Canada. This role sits within the VFX pipeline and is focused on producing cloth, hair, feather, and creature effects simulations across advertising, long-form, and real-time productions. It suits a Houdini-trained artist who is comfortable owning CFX setups end-to-end and working across stylized and photorealistic character work.

About the Role

The CFX Artist works alongside creature and character teams to deliver simulations that hold up across a varied production slate spanning commercial VFX work, long-form content, and real-time projects. Day-to-day, this means building Vellum-based setups for cloth, feathers, and hair, troubleshooting solver issues under deadline, and ensuring your rigs are clean enough for other artists to work with downstream. Muscle system experience in Houdini 20.5 or H21 is a genuine plus given the creature work on the slate.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Vellum solver setups covering cloth, hair, and feathers for stylized CG and photorealistic characters and creatures.
• Develop procedural CFX rigs that are scalable and structured so other artists can pick them up without friction.
• Write VEX where needed to extend or customize solver behaviour beyond out-of-the-box Houdini toolsets.
• Troubleshoot simulation issues across multiple concurrent projects, keeping quality consistent with each project’s established look.
• Contribute muscle system work using Houdini 20.5 or H21 on creature-focused shots when required.
• Support and mentor other CFX artists as the team scales, feeding into a collaborative VFX studio environment.

What You Bring

• Professional production experience in Houdini, with a reel that demonstrates CFX work across creature or character-driven projects.
• Proficiency with the Vellum solver across cloth, feather, and hair simulations.
• Working knowledge of VEX, which is preferred rather than required but will strengthen your application.
• Familiarity with muscle systems in Houdini 20.5 or H21 is beneficial and worth noting in your application.
• Experience across advertising and long-form production types is an asset given the breadth of the studio’s work.

Why This Role

Untold Studios works across a genuinely varied slate, which means a CFX Artist here builds credits across commercial VFX production and long-form content rather than being locked into one format. The studio does not use AI or automated systems to screen applicants, so your application is reviewed by a person. Compensation for this role is $85,000 to $130,000 CAD per year, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Apply now for the CFX Artist position at Untold Studios and bring your Houdini simulation work to a studio with real range in its production output.