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By popular request, here are the countries with the highest headcount in VFX for Creature Technical Director / CFX roles, plus Rigging- and Grooming-focused roles. There’s overlap between these roles, and dividing them up based on job titles is a little artificial. That said, Canada has the highest number of Creature TD / CFX roles in VFX, and the highest total number of artists across these three job titles, by a considerable margin. India has a higher number of roles specifically called out as Rigging or Grooming. Similar charts for other VFX roles can be found here, for comparison: 3D and Environment/DMP: https://lnkd.in/gEVybHrY. VFX Supervisors at VFX studios, Previz/Postviz: https://lnkd.in/gCTWruEd. Compositing, Roto/Paint and MM/Tracking: https://lnkd.in/gUPEVcfP The data comes from a core group of 175 internationally recognized studios that provide visual effects for Hollywood movies, with over 42,000 VFX professionals across all disciplines. #vfx #vfxjobs #globalproduction #filmmaking

Misha Koplan

3D Animation Professional, Lead Character FX Artist, Animation Instructor | VES Nominee

3mo

No wonder it is pretty tough to find a role as a CFX Artist of any level in US. It looks like this pretty narrow niche is reserved only to major animation studios or VFX houses here. Canada is a different story it’s a VFX hub, but you need to live there to get the job.

I wonder how many out of the 42,000 are currently employed, and Staff vs contract?

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Hervé Siorat

Creature FX / 3D / Real-time artist

3mo

Thanks for the information! But as you said, this data includes Rigging and Groom! CFX only could maybe be 2/3 of that? Even though, it seems to me quite a lot! Too many to be true :D By chance do you have any numbers for Europe?

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Richard Servello

senior nuke compositor and VFX supervisor

3mo

So USA just above a country that has one studio. Damn.

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Useful tips

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Yet Kwai

Strategic Partnership | Talent Mapping | Client Relationship

2mo

Insightful Data

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