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Sony Pictures Imageworks
Montréal, QC
Company description
Mikros Animation is a global CGI animation studio located in Paris, Montreal, Los Angeles, Bangalore and London, dedicated to feature films and episodic content. Since its inception, Mikros Animation has always put creativity and CG artistry at the heart of its animation and production activities, allowing our artists to work across a great variety of stories with a high level of stylized craft. So far, Mikros Animation has contributed to ten released feature animations and to numerous high-quality animated series, for the world's best-known animation studios, either as creative studio, line producer or executive producer. Mikros Animation has also produced more than 250 hours of programming, broadcast by notable channels including Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, TF1, France TV, Gulli, M6, Gloob, and Super RTL. Our animated episodic content airs and streams globally, in over 180 countries.
At Mikros Animation, we believe great animation is about making real connections with real people. By partnering with filmmakers to unite their creative visions, with our industry-leading craftsmanship and artistry, we create characters that connect with audiences on an authentic and emotional level to bring powerful stories to life.
Job overview
The Technical Artist will provide support to the animation department. He will work closely with the artists to offer immediate and direct support. He will report to the Animation CG Supervisor to discuss and apply pipeline processes and fix the recurrent problems that may occur.
Responsibilities
• Debug scenes.
• Define a proper workflow and reinforce best practices.
• Needs to help implement good usage of the rigs that will be pipeline friendly and with the focus of providing clean scenes to the downstream departments.
• Help document these best practices through our internal wiki.
• Possibility of animating shots.
Profile
• Generalist background with an interest in animation.
• Basic knowledge of rigging.
• Basic knowledge of the different steps in animation (block, spline, polish).
• Good problem solver and interested in the technical aspects of the pipeline.
• Maya, Linux (a plus), Shotgrid (a plus)
• No coding necessary and training will be provided to get familiar with our pipeline
• Soft skills: team player, ability to explain the problem faced and how to solve it
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gx8x9j-54-205-238-173-42 in your application.
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