Senior Lookdev Artist - Multiple Positions Full-time Compensation: CAD 98,000 - CAD 148,000 - yearly Repeatedly voted one of Montreal’s Top Employers and Employer of the Year for the 2022 Mercuriades Awards, Rodeo FX is a high-end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential. Rodeo FX is a creative partner to the world’s best storytellers including Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros.

Current projects include Dune: Prophecy, Silo Season 2 and Sonic 3. Recently released projects include The Rings of Power S, Venom: The Last Dance, Taika Waitit's Time Bandits, and House of the Dragon Season 2. Our mission is to give our talent the freedom, resources, and workplace they need to produce high-quality work and thrive in a stimulating, collaborative, and supportive setting.

With this in mind, employees are expected to work from the studio at least three days per week. The remaining days may be worked under versatile arrangements, when the nature of the role, production needs, and work organization allow. This balance helps us support collaboration, preserve our studio culture, and encourage the in-person exchanges that are essential to the way we create.

The artist must be able to create high-quality textures using photographic references, scans, digital painting, or procedural materials.

The Look Development

Artist creates and refines the look of 3D models to achieve photorealistic rendering, combining textures, shading, and surface properties. They contribute directly to the artistic and technical quality of delivered assets,



ensuring they meet Rodeo FX’s high standards and integrate seamlessly into sequences. Working closely with Texturing, Lighting, Compositing, Supervision, and Production teams, they actively contribute to the pipeline and the achievement of creative and technical goals.

Create or refine textures to ensure visual and technical consistency of assets. Deliver robust, lighting-ready assets within deadlines and established standards.

Creative Quality

Propose clear and effective artistic solutions based on a strong understanding of materials and surfaces. Ensure visual consistency across texturing, shading, and lighting for all assets.

Technical Quality

Design physically plausible shaders optimized for production and pipeline compatibility. Create, adapt, or fix textures (UVs, tiling, displacement, color space) to ensure performance in lookdev. Build clean and efficient setups that support Lighting and Compositing workflows.

Quickly identify and resolve technical issues to avoid production bottlenecks. Collaborate closely with upstream and downstream teams to ensure smooth asset continuity. Partner with Lighting and Compositing to ensure consistency in the final render.

Clearly communicate technical requirements related to textures and shading.



Contribute to continuous improvement of workflows between Texturing and Lookdev. Share knowledge on materials, shaders, and advanced techniques with the team.

Minimum of 6 years of experience in lookdev and/or texturing in VFX or animation. Solid knowledge of rendering engines such as Arnold and/or Karma. Ability to deliver clean, optimized, production-ready assets.

Strong technical and artistic rigor, with great attention to detail.

Experience with USD pipelines Experience in tool development or scripting (Python).

Experience in hybrid environments (feature film, advertising, series). Multiple temporary contracts available, with a strong possibility of extension. The artist must also have strong expertise in realistic texturing to produce high-quality textures from photographic references, scans, digital painting, or procedural materials.

Diversity : At Rodeo FX, diversity is a core value. Every team member brings unique insight that strengthens our creativity, challenges our thinking, and helps us deliver better work. Rodeo FX may use AI-based tools to support certain steps of the recruitment process, such as interview transcription or preliminary application analysis.

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📌 Senior Lookdev Artist - Multiple Positions (Montreal)
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