Creature Technical Director - TV Animation

Job Description

Description

Position at Industrial Light & Magic

Creature TDs are responsible for setting up and running flesh-surface, hair, cloth, rigid body simulations as well as able to wrangle rigging and creature pipeline issues proficiently under the direction and guidance of their supervisors.

Basic Skills
• Set up and run proprietary cloth, hair, flesh surfaces and rigid body simulations.
• Hero-creature enveloping using a combination of commercial software packages and proprietary tools.
• Actively run flesh-volume simulations.
• Wrangle creature rigging issues for artists in other disciplines.
• Basic proficiency in another discipline -modelling, viewpoint, TD, animation.
• Mentor entry-level artists.
• Script utilities/tools/plug-ins in various software packages.
• Create dynamic simulations in packages such as Maya/XSI.
• Wrangle creature pipeline issues for artists in other disciplines, such as: MOCAP data re-targeting in XSI/Maya or Act as a wrangler for a creature and/or a specific technique used across multiple creatures

Job Requirments
• Experience in Computer Science, computer visualization, or computer animation required.
• Experience required in 3D CGI for digital animation, visual effects or producing CG characters and creatures for visual media.
• Proficiency with Linux is required.
• Expertise with Maya and/or other high-end animation software is required.
• Experience with C++, mel, python, or other scripting languages is desirable.
• Feature Film experience required.
• Experience in corrective sculpting. Knowledge of anatomy and enveloping
• A demo reel demonstrating artistic and technical ability is required for this role.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r181ov-3-22-70-9-42 in your application.