Weta’s new R&D firm, TransFX, (which we’ve discussed a bit previously) is now up and running. Sebastian Sylwan and Joe Letteri sit down with VFXWorld to talk about their aims for the upcoming SIGGRAPH2009, and announce that they are looking for new employees. However, it’s not the type of employees that Visual Effects house are typically recruiting.
SS: Of course, we will have a number of people there. We will be mostly focusing our efforts on the recruiting side, mostly in the R&D area. The idea is to get more profiles that have possibly some experience with 3D tools but more on the researcher side, so people that are doing a PhD or a post doc in computer graphics or math labs but are approaching problems that are in the three areas of interest. We are going to be actively looking for people there. We are not going to be having a booth, but we will be scheduling meetings ahead of time. And we are setting up an email address for resumes to be sent ahead of time so that we can schedule interviews with specific people.
