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

Strong anatomy, tailoring, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills

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

📌 Character Effects Supervisor Vancouver (Winnipeg)
🏢 Netflix Animation Studios
📍 Winnipeg