CFX Artist

As a CFX Artist Cloth, Hair & Simulation Specialist at Pepi Digital in Chennai, you will play a crucial role in bringing characters to life by implementing realistic cloth behavior, hair flow, and accessory dynamics. Your expertise in crafting secondary motion and dynamic effects will enhance storytelling and visual appeal in various cinematic and commercial projects. Your responsibilities will include creating and simulating cloth, hair, fur, and accessory dynamics using tools such as Marvelous Designer, Maya nCloth, Houdini, and Unreal Engine. Collaboration with modeling, rigging, and animation teams will be essential to ensure seamless FX performance on characters. Your role will involve handling dynamic simulations for a wide range of elements like ethnic garments, flowing gowns, turbans, scarves, jewelry, and other secondary components. You will work on both stylized and photorealistic projects, focusing on physical accuracy and visual beauty to elevate the overall quality of the animations. Additionally, you will be tasked with simulating FX for animated IPs, cinematic brand videos, and immersive product showcase projects. Your expertise in optimizing simulations for both offline rendering and real-time playback in Unreal Engine will be crucial. Troubleshooting technical issues related to collisions, clipping, or performance to meet creative expectations will also fall within your responsibilities. To excel in this role, you should have at least 2 years of professional experience as a CFX Artist in animation, film, or 3D production. Proficiency in tools like Marvelous Designer, Autodesk Maya, Houdini, and Unreal Engine is required. A solid understanding of fabric behavior, physics simulation, and motion dynamics is essential. You should be comfortable working with rigged characters and adept at troubleshooting FX-related issues. A strong demo reel showcasing diverse CFX simulations across clothing, hair, or accessories will be necessary to demonstrate your skills and experience.,