Summary: As a Senior Grooming Artist, you will create high-quality grooms and hair shading lookdev for characters, working within art direction guidelines and pushing creative boundaries. Highlights: 1. Create complex, artistically appealing hairstyles and grooms for characters. 2. Contribute to a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture. 3. Pioneer new artistic achievements in collaborative art forms. Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever\-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling. While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard\-working, Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the world’s most collaborative art form can achieve, and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio that’s doing something different. For information on Skydance’s privacy practices, see the Skydance EU/UK Personnel Privacy Notice located at https://skydance.com/privacy\-personnel/. \- As a Senior Grooming Artist**,** you will create the highest quality grooms and hair shading lookdev for characters of the production. ### **Responsibilities** * Works within art direction guidelines. * Creates complex, artistically appealing hairstyles, grooms and groom’s surfacing for human characters, furry creatures, feathered characters, props and elements. * Keeps up on current artistic methodologies, technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company, developing a stronger creative and technical environment. * Gets involved in the development of departmental tools and techniques. * Works within the established pipeline. * Works together with the team, providing support, guidance, and instructions in areas that contribute towards their artistic and professional growth. * Follows supervisor’s and Lead's guidance. * Works closely with production to ensure the desired work is delivered and that deadlines are met. * Has the ability to perform multiple tasks, set priorities and problem solve. ### **Requirements** * 5\+ years in VFX or animation industries. * 3\+ years in the animation industry. * Must have a good understanding of the processes of grooming, surfacing, rendering, and simulation. * Ability to consistently produce high\-quality grooms and deliver on schedule. * Strong knowledge of Houdini. * Depth of knowledge in groom \& surfacing tools, renderers (Houdini, Maya, xGen, Yeti, Shave and Haircut, Mari, Substance, Arnold or Renderman). * Knowledge of CFX and simulation tools is a plus (vellum). * Knowledge of Python or C/C\+\+ programming, VEX and Houdini HDA creation is a plus. * High English level mandatory. * Spanish desirable. \#Animation \#LI\-Hybrid Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event\-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive, and animation divisions. Recruitment Fraud Alert It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activity by individuals impersonating our Talent Acquisition team. Skydance will only contact you from an official “@skydance.com” email address. If you suspect that you are being contacted by an unauthorized person or believe that the correspondence you have received is suspicious, please do not click on any links or attachments in such emails and submit any questions or concerns to our information security team at https://skydance.com/report\-suspected\-fraud/.