Texture & LookDev Supervisor (VFX)

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada; hybrid workplace

Company

Hybride is a Quebec digital visual effects studio within hirify.global, creating high-end visual effects for film and television productions.

What you will do

• Lead the texturing and look development team, assign work, mentor artists, support hiring and crewing, and manage performance and growth.
• Maintain department quality-control standards for organic and hard-surface assets before downstream delivery.
• Create high-detail textures and lead look development and shading for creatures, characters, digital humans, and hard-surface assets.
• Build physically accurate materials, optimized procedural shading networks, and custom material setups in Arnold for Houdini.
• Collaborate with CG, Technical Direction, Production, Modeling, FX, CFX, and Lighting teams on pipeline standards and sequence-specific workflows.
• Support bidding, asset-scope estimation, scheduling, vendor package integration, documentation, and exploration of tools that improve efficiency and visual quality.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience leading or supervising artists in a film or high-end VFX production studio.
• Proven experience texturing and shading complex organic CG creatures and digital humans.
• Advanced knowledge of Mari, Substance Painter, and Photoshop.
• Deep expertise in shader creation, material accuracy, and AOVs.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Arnold and Houdini.
• Knowledge of Nuke.
• Experience with Copernicus, machine learning, and AI tools.
• Deep knowledge of character and creature build workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a creative VFX studio with more than 200 creators across two creative spaces in the Laurentians and Montreal.
• Contribute to productions including 300, Avatar, Hunger Games, Jurassic World, Star Wars films, and high-end Disney+ series.
• Work in an inclusive and respectful environment focused on well-being, solidarity, creativity, and innovation.