Hasta La Motion!

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures located in downtown Toronto is currently looking for experienced Character Animators to work on a live action visual effects feature film.

The company was founded in 1994 and is one of Canada‘s leading digital visual effects and animation studios. Over a decade later, C.O.R.E. has successfully built three divisions: C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, C.O.R.E. Toons and C.O.R.E. Feature Animation. Over the years, with the underlying philosophy that a studio designed by artists for artists fosters the best creative environment, C.O.R.E. has produced award-winning work for more than 55 Feature Films, 24 Television Series and 24 Movies of the Week.

C.O.R.E. offers an exciting work environment; our open work structure allows for creativity and fun at the same time. The continuous flow of interesting new projects that are awarded from major studios and production companies makes working at C.O.R.E. a unique and fulfilling experience.

Qualifications and Skills:
·Excellent knowledge of animating in Houdini
·May be required to create dynamic simulations
·Excellent sense of timing and composition
·Must be able to create realistic believable movement
·Ability to assess shot requirements, flag potential problems, and facilitate solutions
·University/College degree in animation or fine arts
·3-5 years of experience
·Must be legally authorized to work in Canada

Job Duties:
·Create physically believable animation to be passed on to lighting and rendering
·Work with other animators, technical directors, modelers, riggers and cg artists
·Make timely corrections to work when required
·Take creative direction from leads and/or VFX Supervisor
·Additional duties as required

Qualified applicants can send their resumes, demo reels in DVD-R format including shot breakdown to:

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures Recruiting
461 King St. West
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 1K7

We would like to thank all applicants for their interest however only those under consideration will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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Climax are one of the leading creative lights of independent games development with a great history, but our future is even more exciting with titles such Overlord: Dark Legend for Codemasters, our stunning and refreshing take on the action and adventure genre.

Climax truly is an exciting, creative and fun place to work and we currently have an exceptional opportunity for a talented Freelance/ Contract SFX Artist.

Our ideal candidate will:

• Join an exciting dedicated SFX team to design, conceptualize and animate real time effects for characters and environments on current and next generation platforms.
• Have 1/ 2 years experience in the games industry and have the ability to demonstrate outstanding visual effects.
• Be able to accurately render and animate realistic and fantasy elements in line with the overall game concept and physical principles
• Be responsible for all aspects of 3D and 2D effects work including, designing and conceptualising the effects, animating geometry and camera work
• Accurately render and animate realistic and fantasy elements in line with the overall game concept and physical principles.
• Be able to demonstrate a high level of creativity and understanding of modelling, texturing, lighting and particles.
• Have extensive Maya and Photoshop skills.
• Real time FX experience is essential.
• Experience in After Effects beneficial

Please send a current CV/ resume to Stuart Godfrey on sgodfrey@climaxgroup.com

I look forward to hearing from yo