Senior Crowd Technical Director

Job Description

Position Summary

The main focus of the position will be to create crowd simulations for our CG scenes, using either off the shelf or our own proprietary software to populate cities, large scale environments and choreograph battles.

What You'll Do
Manage and organize motion for crowds
Animation and simulations on shots or sequences
Creating show-specific tools and setups to complement the crowd pipeline.
Setting-up / troubleshooting crowd simulations
Setup and run cloth simulations on Crowd

What We're Looking For
Advanced knowledge of Houdini Software
Proven experience working on high end VFX feature-film productions.
Strong crowd and layout skills including asset integration, scene setup and running simulations
Experience working with motion capture and/or clip-based animation
Strong working knowledge of Maya
Proficiency with Linux
Strong communication skills
Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines whilst maintaining a high quality output.
Nice to have:
Experience working with cloth simulations and Vellum
Working knowledge of VEX and/or Python
Understanding of 'Maya-to-Houdini' workflow
Keen eye for how crowds flock and move / behavioural observations

JoinILM

This position is with ILM (Vancouver) Inc., which is part of a business we call Industrial Light & Magic.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxxjwq-18-117-153-38-42 in your application.