Technical Director

Job Description

Technical Director (Optimization)

With offices all over the globe, Technicolor Creative Studios is a collective of global leading studios, creating high-end content for the gaming, animation, advertising and feature film industries. We are constantly looking for the best talent in the world, enthusiastic people that come to work every day with the desire to be a part of some of the best work in the industry.
Our teams, throughout our global network of studios, produce creative, visually stunning and technically challenging digital projects of the highest quality, and we are looking for candidates with a desire to be involved in the success of these projects.

About MPC
With offices all over the globe, MPC is one of the world's leading visual effects studios, creating high-end VFX for the advertising and feature film industries. We are constantly looking for the best talent in the world, enthusiastic people that come to work every day with the desire to be a part of some of the best work in the industry.

We are hiring a Technical Director to join our Montreal Optimization team. You'll be able to contribute directly to the success and timely delivery of some of the most technically challenging and widely recognized movies in production.
Our Optimization team is responsible for supporting our asset and lighting team, to improve the efficiency and quality of our rendering. Responsibilities include troubleshooting render issues by working closely with artists, developers and production to pro-actively identify and solve challenging problems in modern visual effects, taking ownership of issues through to resolution.

To work hand-in-hand with our artists and engineers, providing support for our tools and technologies used to create stunning imagery for our films. We are looking for people who are able to take the initiative and able to communicate complex problems in a simple manner to stakeholders and end users.

Primary Responsibilities
• Works with production to improve efficiency and quality of rendering.
• Identify rendering challenges. Suggesting solutions and working on implementation, interfacing with other teams to address.
• Troubleshoot render scenes, develop new techniques and document best practice for rendering efficiency.

Qualifications

Skills and Experience
• Education and/or experience in Film, Animation, Games or a closely related field.
• Solid understanding of computer graphics is required.
• Experience with RenderMan or similar path-traced renderers such as Arnold or V-Ray.
• Experience with tools such as Katana, Maya, Houdini and/or Nuke is an asset.
• Previous experience as Pipeline, Render or Assistant TD is an asset.
• Skills with Python, OSL or similar scripting languages are considered an asset.

Personal Attributes
• Highly committed and able to work independently and as part of a supportive global team.
• Able to take direction, embrace change and contribute ideas and knowledge to solve problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Positive and professional attitude.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d94e1m-18-188-252-23-42 in your application.