Lead hair, fur, cloth, and garment simulations as Character Effects Supervisor at Netflix Animation Studios in Vancouver, using Houdini or Maya.

This supervisor leads the CFX team on an upcoming feature film. You will align character effects with the Director’s vision, performance, storytelling, and downstream technical needs. The work spans CFX pipelines, caching strategies, anatomy, tailoring, and cross-department collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

- Supervise hair, fur, cloth, garment, and secondary-motion simulations
- Lead CFX dailies and provide constructive simulation feedback
- Create complex, hero, or reference-setting CFX assets and shots
- Collaborate across Modeling, Rigging, Animation, FX, and Lighting




- Mentor artists and support training and career development

Requirements:

- Extensive feature animation, VFX, or high-end series CFX experience
- Lead or Supervisory experience in Character Effects
- Strong reel showing advanced hair, fur, cloth, and garment simulations
- Proficiency with Houdini and/or Maya and CFX caching strategies
- Robust anatomy, tailoring, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills

Bring advanced CFX supervision, simulation expertise, and collaborative leadership to Netflix Animation Studios’ Vancouver feature film production.

📌 Character Effects Supervisor Vancouver
🏢 Netflix Animation Studios
📍 Vancouver