Internship
Summer Intern - Character Shading / Grooming
Pixar
- Paid
- Internship
- Entry (0-2 years) Experience
Job Description
Technical Director Intern, Character Shading/Grooming - Summer 2021 (6 months)
Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement appearance of the texture, color, and material properties of objects.
• Develop shaders using a wide range of techniques and resources including 2D/3D texture painting, procedural signals, reusing and modifying existing shading functions or writing new algorithmic work.
• Projects may also include technical development such as implementing procedurals in the RenderMan shading language, writing RenderMan DSOs and other graphics functionality, and optimizing existing pipelines and assets.
• Paint textures in Photoshop or Mari.
• Using drawings, paintings, photographic and motion picture references or actual objects and locations, design work desired by the Production Designer and Director.
• Maintains asset stability for downstream departments.
Qualifications:
• You have experience using 3D software packages such as Houdini, Maya, Katana, and/or RenderMan
• Experience writing shaders with any major shading language (osl, rsl, glsl, C++) is a plus
• You have a deep understanding of physical motion, weight, balance, texture and form
• You possess an ability to follow art direction but also demonstrate initiative
• You are familiar with Unix/Linux systems
• Able to demonstrate your aesthetic via an online demo reel.
• This is a six-month internship. You will need to be available to work full-time Mon - Fri for 24-weeks between June 2021 – December 2021
• You already possess the legal right to work in the United States
Eligibility:
Traditional Academic Paths:
• You are working towards a Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Digital Art or a related field
• Recent grads who are within the first year post graduation are eligible to apply
Less Traditional Professional Paths:
Pixar recognizes that obtaining skills and knowledge may take different forms and has expanded intern eligibility to include additional life experiences including:
• Career Transition: those whose previous work/academic experiences differ vastly from animation, VFX, gaming and other computer graphics focused industries
• Armed Forces: those who have served in the armed forces and are in a retraining program
• Home Schooled: those who are self-taught via an alternative educational path
Submission process and application materials:
• Apply online at pixar.com – no submissions accepted via mail or in person
• Attach a single PDF file containing your cover letter and resume
• Provide a link to your online demo reel in the "Demo Reel'' section of the application; without this, you will not be considered for the internship
• If your demo reel is password protected, please include the correct password
• Due to the high volume of submissions, we are not able to provide feedback nor are we able to respond to requests for application status. You will be notified when there is an update on your application
• In submitting your application, you are agreeing to the terms of our Submission Release Form. Without this, we are unable to consider your application
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Sunday, February 14, 2021
Note: Due to the ongoing global pandemic, we do not yet know whether internships will be onsite or virtual. This will be determined Spring 2021.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d86j3k-3-80-211-101-42 in your application.
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Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award®-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation.