Environment Artist

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.