Hogarth Worldwide is the world’s largest and leading marketing content production company.
Born to make the best work brilliantly, we combine craft, insight and technology to bring creative work to life for many of the world’s most famous brands.
Department Summary
VFX is delivered across multiple disciplines, channels, clients and products.
We create animated characters, full computer-generated product configurators with millions of variations, computer-generated products with AI-generated images, photo-real, real-time environments, water simulations, digital twins, and much more.
The department includes all the usual computer graphics disciplines, from modelers, animators, lighters to pipeline developers and producers, both onshore and offshore, supporting global and local client needs.
What does a ‘FX Lead’ do at Hogarth?
The FX Lead is responsible for creation of complex simulated effects such as fire, smoke, water, destruction, magical elements, cloth, groom and other procedural animations in Houdini in the Hogarth USD based pipeline.
Responsibilities
- Simulation: Define and build procedural systems for creating and scaling FX, CFX, Cloth, Groom and related disciplines to be used in production with an emphasis on photo-realism, accuracy, detail, and function, and provide tools for manual adjustments of parameters at scale.
- Procedural workflow set ups using publishing and dependency.
- Quality Control systems: Eye for detail and able to build QA procedures to ensure the highest quality before release of assets.
- Collaborate closely with CG/Department Supervisors, Lighting Leads, Compositing, and Animation departments to ensure FX integrate seamlessly into the full shot.
Requirements
- Good eye for detail and real-world reference when recreating simulations.
- Strong understanding of simulation workflows and decision trees using Houdini.
- Proficiency in Python scripting for procedural tools and pipeline integration.
- 3+ years experience in managing FX and Simulation within 3D environments in a mature pipeline. Exposure to USD pipeline and workflows.
- Ability to receive and give creative feedback from supervisors and to the team.
- Ability to communicate complex technical requirements to pipeline developers and other technical teams.
- Experience with ML tools would be a bonus.
Hogarth Values
Heart and Soul: We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.
Hands on: We don’t wait for things to happen, we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don’t have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.
Honest: We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.
Happy family: We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don’t lose perspective or our sense of humour.
Hungry: We are an inquisitive community. We want to create an environment which inspires ourselves and others to be better. It is important to continuously challenge ourselves and our ways of working. We aim to provide staff with the opportunities to develop and learn.