A Visual Effects Artist designs and integrates digital elements into live-action footage, creating realistic environments, characters, or effects to enhance storytelling in film, TV, or games.
A Visual Effects Artist designs and integrates digital elements into live-action footage, creating realistic environments, characters, or effects to enhance storytelling in film, TV, or games.
The FX (effects) Department is responsible for recreating natural phenomena such as water and fire and other more abstract effects such as character transformations or magical elements. These type of FX are too time consuming and difficult to animate by hand so are simulated by FX artists using CG software.
While this is a very creative department, it is also one of the more technical VFX departments, so artistic and creative solving problems are required.
To work in the FX department, you should have a broad knowledge of CG production, and be comfortable with both the artistic and technical aspects of CG.
This work can be computationally heavy, so an understanding of reusability, scalability, coding, and pipeline efficiency is important.
You will be a creative problem solver who can overcome technical issues to deliver on artistic intent. You will often have an interest in areas such as art, coding, mathematics, and physics.
The nature of FX work is very diverse and will cater to a production’s individual needs.
On large productions, the FX department can include multiple sub departments for elements such as Destruction, Character/Creature FX (Cloth, Fur/Hair, Muscle), Crowds, Natural Phenomena (Water, Fire etc.), Miscellaneous (abstract, magical etc.).
Each sub department of FX (creature, destruction, crowds etc.) can have its own lead responsible for those elements.
Within these departments, the crew includes technical artists—known as technical directors (TDs)—and FX artists who work on individual shots.
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Interests - Visual Effects Artist
This occupation is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Creative
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
