Environment Artist
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Location: Brussels, BelgiumContract: Freelance
Duration: available as soon as possible
We are looking for an experienced Houdini Environment Artist to join our CG team and create high-quality digital environments for film and episodic VFX projects.
The ideal candidate combines a strong artistic eye with solid procedural skills in Houdini. You will be responsible for building, scattering and refining complex natural and architectural environments, from early layout through to final render-ready assets.
Responsibilities
- Create photorealistic natural and architectural environments using Houdini.
- Buildprocedural systems for terrain generation, vegetation, rocks,debrisand environmental variation.
- Assemble and manage large-scale environments efficiently.
- Generate andoptimisegeometry for both foreground and background elements.
- Createprocedural scattering andinstancingsystems.
- Integrate environments with supplied plates, LiDAR scans,photogrammetryand layout scenes.
- Prepareenvironmentassets for lighting and rendering.
- Collaborate closely with VFX Supervisors, CG Supervisors, FX, Lighting and Compositing teams.
- Respond to creative and technical feedback whilemaintainingvisual consistency.
- Troubleshoot performance, scenecomplexityand render-related issues.
- Contribute to the development of reusable tools and efficient environment workflows.
Profile
- Strong professional experience with Houdini, particularly SOP-based procedural workflows.
- A strong portfoliodemonstratingphotorealistic environment work.
- Good understanding of terrain creation, procedural modelling,scatteringand instancing.
- Experience creating natural elements such as landscapes, vegetation, rocks, snow,ruinsor urban environments.
- Strong understanding of scale, composition, lighting,colourand atmospheric perspective.
- Ability to work with large and complex datasets while keeping scenes efficient.
- Understanding ofVFX production workflows and the requirements of downstream departments.
- Ability to balance artistic quality with production constraints.
- Good communicationskills and the ability to work collaboratively within a team.
Wearelookingforsomeonewhoisbothtechnicallyresourcefulandvisuallydriven.
Youshouldbecomfortablecreatingproceduralsystems, butalsoknowwhento movebeyondthetechnicalsetup and focus on the final image. Youenjoysolvingcomplexenvironmentchallenges and cantakeownershipof a shot or assetfrominitial briefthroughtodelivery.