Assistant Technical Director

Job Description

Reporting to the VFX and CG Supervisors, an Assistant Technical Director (ATD) will be involved in the creation and ongoing support of a large high-end visual effects pipeline and asset/project management system, as well as application tools and utilities. This a service-oriented role, working between productions and development, and the ATD should have a helpful, patient and accommodating personality.

Duties
• Develop and maintain scripts, tools and utilities for 3D and 2D artists.

• Work in and understand the SPI's proprietary pipeline

• Create, package, document and release tools for production use

• Help author production specific training materials for new hires

• Assist artists with technical issues anywhere in the production pipeline.

• Assist teams to optimize and reduce render times for various render passes

• Coordinate with the Render Efficiency Team to distribute and implement optimizations in production.

• Work as ''triage'' from time-to-time, acting as the point person for any and all production-related queries to the pipeline department.

• Identify workflow inefficiencies and work with artists and other pipeline teams to build scripts, tools and/or systems to improve these inefficiencies

Qualifications
• Strong interest in Film, Lighting and/or Compositing a plus

• Good Knowledge of at least one or more of the following 2D/3D software packages such as Maya, Katana, Houdini, Clarisse, and Nuke

• Programming experience, preferably in Python, Lua, C++.

• Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills

• Bash/cshell/Linux knowledge

• Experience in code-sharing, revision control a plus

• Experience with Arnold or any other ray tracing-based renderers such as Vray, Mantra, Renderman or Mental Ray.

• Some experience writing shaders is a plus

• Some basic knowledge or experience as a 3D or 2D artist a plus

• Undergraduate or Graduate degree in Computing Science a plus

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