Associate Pipeline Technical Director
Jetzt bewerben Später bewerben Job ID 10055958 Standort Mumbai, Indien Veröffentlichungsdatum 07/08/2024 Unternehmen Industrial Light & MagicJob-Zusammenfassung:
Position Summary
The Associate Pipeline TD is responsible for developing and maintaining software tools, providing front-line support to artists, and general troubleshooting of the CG pipeline in a fast-paced, feature film visual effects production environment. The primary focus is ensuring artist efficiency. Receives day-to-day direction and priorities from show CG Supervisor; reports to R&D supervisor for technical and career guidance.
What You’ll Do
● Develop pipeline and asset management tools to meet immediate, show-directed production demands, ensuring facility-wide consistency as directed by show and technical supervisors. Help maintain a wide array of existing workflows and scripts.
● Provide front-line production assistance across a wide range of disciplines, troubleshoot assets and shots, and help artists with general problem-solving. Monitor email requests, package up problems and redirect to the appropriate engineering team.
● Gather information about artist problems and obstacles; resolve user errors; guide artists with deeper problems to appropriate technical teams.
● Test and validate tools and techniques in production. Work closely with engineering teams in testing, and releasing new and modified software systems. ● Act as an on-call resource for show production staff
● When not crewed to shows, serve on software teams working on projects that improve the efficiency
● Take direction from show supervisors to determine day-to-day and hour-to-hour priorities
● Work primarily on workflow tools, requiring introductory knowledge of the larger pipeline
● Develop basic knowledge of software, systems, and standards and conventions used in production
● Update documentation for the pipeline and tools to reflect any changes that are made
Education/Experience
● Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field.
● Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining tools for use in a computer graphics environment.
● At least 2 years production experience in visual effects for film, commercials or television.
Required Skills/Competencies
● Proficiency in Linux
● Advanced Python scripting required
● Experience in one or more of Maya, Nuke, Houdini, Mari, Katana, RenderMan or similar
● Ability to communicate cross-discipline and provide innovative solutions to pipeline issues.
● Detail oriented and strong self-sufficient troubleshooter.
● Thorough understanding of the entire visual effects process, from shooting to modeling and texturing, animation, rendering and compositing
Preferred Skills/Competencies
● Experience with production database systems
● Experience with C, C++
● Experience with Windows development and applications such as 3ds max a plus
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