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VFX + compositing
Build practical experience in visual effects, image-making and compositing workflows.
Level 4 Junior VFX Apprentice · York
Make things. Learn fast. Get paid.
What we're interested in
Not your showreel. Not your degree. What you made when nobody asked you to.
The video you cut on a borrowed laptop. The TikTok series nobody watched. The VR music video for your friend's band. The thing you built in Unreal at 3am because you wanted to see if it would work.
The short film you finished, and the one you didn't. The experience of having tried.
If you suspect moving images are still the most exciting medium on Earth, we would like to hear from you.
The apprenticeship
Learn by making. On real projects.
This is a Level 4 Junior Visual Effects (VFX) Artist apprenticeship lasting 18 months.
You will work alongside professional artists and creatives on real projects, with real deadlines and real audiences, while completing the structured learning and assessment required for the apprenticeship.
You will not be a runner. You will not be invisible.
From the first week, you will be treated as someone whose ideas and perspective have a place in the work.
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CG, 3D + digital workflows
Develop confidence across the tools, processes and technical thinking behind modern VFX.
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Production + post
Understand how ideas travel from brief to delivery across a professional production.
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Directing + storytelling
Learn to make technical choices in service of story, audience and intention.
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Emerging technology
Experiment with new formats, tools and workflows as the moving-image landscape changes.
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Your creative voice
Bring your own perspective, test ideas and learn how to make them stronger with others.
WHO ARE WE
Visual Effects for Film and TV
Viridian FX offers a wide range of high-end visual effects for film, TV and screen-based media. The experienced team’s work, from conceptualising and realising new visual realities to refining in-camera imagery, is supplemented by its unique, in-house, creative research and development.
Based in the heart of York, Viridian FX is one of the leading VFX houses in the North of England.
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House of the Dragon
Heart of Stone
Kaos
Who we're looking for
We don't know. That's the point.
You might be a filmmaker, animator, gamer, coder, artist, 3D hobbyist, content creator — or someone who has simply spent far too much time trying to make something work.
You may have other formal qualifications. You may not.
What matters is that you are curious, creative, willing to learn and prepared to make things.
You also need to be collaborative. The best idea in the room matters more than whose idea it was.
We particularly welcome applications from people whose backgrounds and perspectives are underrepresented in the film, VFX and creative industries.
What you get
A real wage.Real equipment.Real colleagues.Real work.
A full-time, 37.5-hour-per-week apprenticeship based in York.
You'll work on professional VFX and post-production projects while developing practical skills and your own creative voice.
WHY THE ACADEMY EXISTS
A different route into VFX.
Viridian Academy is designed to create a route into VFX for people whose potential may not be visible through conventional credentials alone.
It combines structured apprenticeship learning with practical project experience, creative experimentation and professional production work.
We want to widen the range of people who can imagine themselves working in film, television and visual effects — and give them a meaningful way in.
How applying works
Four simple steps.
This is not a test of how polished you already are. We want to understand what you make, how you think and what you are curious about.
Show us something
Finished or unfinished. Professional or scrappy. It just needs to be yours.
We look at the work
Tell us what you made, why you made it and what you learned while making it.
We will be in touch
If there is a potential fit, we will contact you and explain the next steps.
Apply
Show us something you've made.
It doesn't need to be professional. It doesn't need to be finished. It just needs to be yours.
Tell us what you made, why you made it and what you learned.
Finished or unfinished. Polished or scrappy. It just needs to be yours.
Make us curious.
Apply here
Applications close 1 October 2026