Department TD, Feature Animation

Job Description

Responsibilities

A Department TD provides critical support to a show's artists and department heads. A Technical Director will develop, design, and implement new tools and processes for a particular show, project or department.

Job Duties
• Communicate with artists to identify production facing problems
• Collaborate cross-functionally with technical artists, supervisors, engineers, and other technical directors to break down issues into external requests and design challenges
• Engineer robust and thoughtful software solutions that follow studio policies and standards
• Build validation tests to ensure software quality
• Provide support and development of existing software and procedures to extend and enhance the existing pipeline
• Develop change management plans for rolling out software
• Clearly and concisely document software and approaches to solving recurring problems
• Possible areas of support include: services-based infrastructure, pipeline software, third-party applications, fur, clothing, particle effects, animation, and rendering

Qualifications/Requirements
Required Qualifications

Strong programming skills; Object Oriented Programming

Ability to establish priorities, work independently or within a group, and work with minimal supervision

Exceptional communication skills in dealing with both technical and artistic groups

Experience with industry standard computer graphics applications (software such as Maya, Houdini)

Desired Characteristics

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Production experience in computer animation, visual effects, or game industry

Proficiency in Python     

Experience with tool integration into existing or new pipelines

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