Artiste FX – Senior et intermédiaire – Multiple positions

Job Position(s): Artiste FX - Senior et intermédiaire - Multiple positions

Rodeo FX is hiring Senior and Intermediate FX Artists across multiple positions at their studios in Montreal and Quebec City, Canada. Working embedded within the 3D pipeline, these roles are responsible for designing and delivering complex simulations, including fire, smoke, fluid, destruction, and abstract effects, for feature film and episodic television productions. This is a role for artists who can own an effect from initial setup through final cache delivery without needing their hand held at every stage.

About the Role

The FX department at Rodeo FX works in close collaboration with CG supervision, lighting, compositing, and layout to produce photoreal, technically sound imagery across a steady slate of VFX production work. Day to day, you are building and iterating simulations in Houdini, attending dailies, integrating notes, and managing your own shot queue with real deadlines. The pipeline is established and the expectation is that you contribute to it, not just work inside it.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce complex Houdini simulations using Pyro, FLIP, RBD, Vellum, and SOPs, covering effects ranging from explosions and liquids to magical and abstract looks driven by the creative brief.
• Manage your own FX shots from setup through rendered output, maintaining clean, organized workfiles and caches that meet internal technical standards before submission.
• Identify technical problems in your setups early and resolve them without waiting for a supervisor to flag them first.
• Verify that your effects are compatible with adjacent departments, specifically layout, lighting, and compositing, before handoff.
• Provide accurate time estimates to production, flag delays or technical risks as soon as they appear, and adjust priorities in coordination with the production team.
• Share techniques and tools with colleagues and contribute to FX department documentation and workflow improvements.

What You Bring

• Demonstrated professional experience as an FX Artist at a senior or intermediate level within a VFX pipeline on feature film or high-end episodic television.
• Strong working knowledge of Houdini across Pyro, FLIP, RBD, and Vellum with the ability to build optimized, production-ready setups independently.
• A portfolio of credits showing photoreal simulations delivered under real production conditions.
• The ability to receive and integrate feedback from multiple sources, supervision, production, and other departments, without losing momentum on your shots.

Why This Role

Rodeo FX has built a consistent track record delivering VFX work across major streaming and theatrical productions, with studios operating across North America and Europe. These multiple positions represent genuine depth of hiring, not a single seat, which signals real production volume and department growth. For an FX Artist looking to work on substantive, effects-heavy projects within a structured VFX pipeline, this is a stable place to do serious work.

Apply now for the Senior and Intermediate FX Artist positions at Rodeo FX and put your Houdini work in front of a team that knows exactly what they are looking at.