Crowd Supervisor

SPIN VFX

Contract
Toronto, Canada

SPIN VFX is seeking a Crowd supervisor to join our award winning creative team. The Crowd Supervisor is responsible for creating the motion of crowds in high-end visual effects films and television, including simulation for planning. Leading the team of artists and collaboratively working with other departments supervisors, pipeline, production.


Responsibilities:

  • Supervise and develop the crowd team and pipeline
  • Providing crowd artists with aesthetic and technical guidance and support to ensure the quality and schedules are met
  • Building workflows, best practices and technical solutions for the team
  • Create digital crowd behaviors and simulations to achieve the look, movement, and style envisioned by the Director & Production
  • Collaborate With VFX, CG and Animation Supervisors in order to implement efficient and effective ways to integrate crowd pipeline tools and techniques and problem solve issues in feature film development
  • Communicate and provide production with schedules, deadlines and updated information regarding production support required. 
  • Troubleshoot and find solutions to technical challenges and execute them effectively
  • Propose creative approaches and solutions for any specific shots
  • Mentor and train junior artists and generalists in the crowd pipeline. 
  • Work with our head of CG, department heads and the pipeline team ensure the continuous development of the crowd pipeline.  


Must Have:

  • 2-3 years of Supervisor or lead expense on feature films or TV.
  • Houdini and/or Atoms, Maya, and Python
  • Experience working with a USD based pipeline
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Team player who excels within a collaborative environment


Beneficial to Have:

  • Experience crafting animation for use in crowds.
  • Understanding of rigging requirements for crowd simulation and ragdolls.
  • Knowledge and understanding of the lookdev process.
  • Experience with Mocap Retargeting in Maya, MotionBuilder is a plus
  • Experience with other crowd software packages is a plus


If this sounds like you, please submit your cover letter, resume and demo reel. Be sure to include “Crowd Supervisor” in the subject line.

SPIN VFX

Established in 1987, SPIN is a creative and technically dedicated visual effects studio producing captivating imagery for feature film and television.

SPIN’s roots trace back to creative and technological innovations that are now standard in visual effects facilities around the globe.

SPIN Founder and CEO Nigel McGrath co-founded Alias Research in 1984, creator of Maya, later acquired by Autodesk; and in 1987 Side Effects Productions the production arm that supported the initial R&D of software giant, Side Effects Software, the creators of Houdini.

President and Partner, Neishaw Ali, a Queens MBA graduate has over 25 years in the film and television industry and over 70 features and 13 television series under her belt. In 1992, Neishaw was instrumental in rebranding Side Effects Productions as SPIN, successfully blending the science of business and creativity.

SPIN VFX has evolved into an internationally recognized Visual Effects studio, working with respected Directors, VFX Supervisors and Producers. With television credits that include the Emmy award-winning series Game of Thrones (HBO), Neil Jordan’s thrice Emmy nominated The Borgias (Showtime), and film credits such as Bill Condon’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One & Two (Summit/Lionsgate), M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth (Columbia Pictures), Mans Marlind’s Underworld: Awakening (Screen Gems), and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (20th Century Fox) from Timur Bekmambetov.

The studio is currently in production on Ericson Core's Point Break (Alcon Entertainment) action adventure remake for Warner Bros., the next young adult science fiction novel adaptation to hit the big screen The 5th Wave (Columbia Pictures), as well as the the highly anticipated sci-fi television series The Expanse (SyFy) and Tim Kring’s Heroes Reborn (NBC). Recently, the team delivered work on the third season of the Emmy nominated renaissance masterpiece Da Vinci’s Demons (Starz) and Tom McCarthy’s expose that is garnering Oscar buzz, Spotlight (Open Road Films).

SPIN VFX delivers on vision.
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SPIN is located in Toronto with sales and support in Los Angeles.

For over 27 years SPIN has been offering a range of creative services in the areas of:

VFX Supervision
On-Set and in Studio
On-Set Production Services
Location Capture &
3D Body Scanning
Concept & Visualization
Pitch, Pre, Post
3D Animation
Creature and Character
CG Effects
Massive /Crowd Duplication
Matte Painting / Environments
2D and 3D
Compositing
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