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Environment Modeling Artist

Environment Modeling Artist

Position location: Winnipeg, Toronto, or Vancouver

About Us:

Tangent Animation is a high-end feature animation studio focused on delivering the best creative with the industries top talent. We are located in Winnipeg, Toronto, and Vancouver and we are growing!

Tangent is looking for an experienced and passionate Environment Modeler in Winnipeg, MB. If you are seeking to be a part of an exciting project and team-based environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities would include :

• Environments and prop modeling.
• Completing models, including environments, props, costumes to production quality level within established workflows and timelines
• Communicating issues and concerns related to modeling with Modeling Lead, Supervisor, as well as related asset departments (Art, Rigging, Surfacing, Layout)
• Troubleshooting production problems to the aesthetic and technical criteria of the Art Director, CG Supervisor and related asset department Supervisors as efficiently as possible
• Assisting others should the need arise. Being aware of concerns of your fellow team members and helping with problem solving or production should you be in a position to do so, and communicate any such issues to your Leads and Supervisor
• Keeping up to date with knowledge and skills required to advance personal career development, and staying on top of modern industry standards and conventions to help production move forward smoothly
• Acquiring and furthering understanding of skills outside your immediate department (such as surface and rigging) to help facilitate hand offs and working directly with those your work will affect
• Adapting to a dynamic environment, furthering your knowledge of skills such as lighting, compositing, VFX, simulation, hair and fur, etc. are items in your toolkit that can be very useful

Requirements

• Proven experience working on complex environments using industry standard software such as Maya or 3ds Max. Our in-house package is Blender, so an in-depth knowledge of that is extremely beneficial
• 3+ Years CG Modeling experience
• Experience in sculpting using packages such as zBrush or Mudbox
• Experience using Photoshop
• Please include links to your portfolio and resume

Benefits

Tangent Animation is a high-end feature animation studio focused on delivering the best creative with the industries top talent. Our locations are Winnipeg, Toronto, and Vancouver.

Tangent Animation is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation upon request for candidates taking part in the recruitment process.

We thank you for your interest, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.