CFX Artist

Untold Studios is hiring a CFX Artist based in London, United Kingdom. This role sits within the VFX pipeline and is responsible for delivering cloth, hair, feather, and muscle simulations across advertising, long-form, and real-time productions. It suits a Houdini specialist who is comfortable moving between stylised CG and photoreal characters and creatures without losing a beat.

About the Role

The CFX Artist at Untold Studios works across a varied slate that includes commercial VFX and long-form content, building and owning character effects setups from brief through to final delivery. Day to day, that means running Vellum simulations, tuning muscle systems, and handing off clean, scalable rigs that other artists can work within. The work demands close reading of each project’s visual language so that effects stay consistent with the overall look, whether photoreal or stylised.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and deliver CFX setups for cloth, feathers, and hair using the Vellum solver within Houdini’s VFX pipeline.
• Develop procedural character effects rigs that are scalable and structured for use by other artists across productions.
• Write VEX to extend and customise simulation behaviour where off-the-shelf solver settings fall short.
• Implement muscle systems using Houdini 20.5 or H21, integrating them with creature and character rigs as required.
• Troubleshoot simulation failures and performance issues across multiple concurrent projects, often under tight post-production deadlines.
• Support and mentor other CFX artists as workloads require, helping to maintain quality and consistency across the department.

What You Bring

• Proven professional experience in Houdini within a VFX studio or post-production environment.
• Strong working knowledge of the Vellum solver covering cloth, hair, and feather simulations.
• VEX scripting ability, with the capacity to write procedural solutions rather than rely solely on shelf tools.
• Familiarity with muscle systems in Houdini 20.5 or H21 is a clear advantage.
• Credits across advertising or long-form productions, with experience adapting to different visual styles and project pipelines.
• Comfort working independently and adapting to new workflows as production demands shift.

Why This Role

Untold Studios operates across advertising and long-form content, which means a CFX Artist here gets genuine breadth of work rather than being locked into one format or one type of creature. The studio places its production culture and people at the centre of how it operates, which in practice means a working environment built around craft rather than throughput. For a CFX artist looking to grow into a more senior or supervisory position, the interest in mentoring here is genuine and built into the role.

Apply now for the CFX Artist position at Untold Studios and bring your simulation work to a studio that takes the craft seriously.