Technical Director for Animation Pipeline

4 days ago

Santa Monica, United States Skydance Full time

OverviewAs a Technical Director, you will have a deep involvement in designing and developing innovative tools to overcome specific challenges related to the department's developments for our next animated feature film. This effort seeks to implement solutions that off-the-shelf software would not provide while maximizing productivity and meeting the high quality standard set by the company. The scope of the developments may be from a simple python script to a larger development involving complex algorithms.ResponsibilitiesTDs are embedded within the productions to closely collaborate and support the artists and production management.Reports to the Production Technology Supervisor on the status of technical development projects, tool performance, production operations and support statuses.Develop and maintain the required tools following the requirements supplied by the production departments and following the Production Engineering Team guides.Partner with Artists and other Engineers to iterate, debug, document, and refine tools and processes for feature film production.Acts as the first line of support to solve day-to-day problems artists may encounter.Work on short-term needs, originated by shot challenges.RequirementsUndergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, or comparable discipline and/or technical and creative knowledge gained through equivalent experienceExpert in PythonExperience programming with one or more of the following software: Maya, Houdini, Nuke, and MariExperience with Post and Preproduction workflowsExperience with Non-linear editing suites: e.g. Avid Media Composer, Premiere, ResolveFamiliar with common media encodings and transcoding software: e.g. ffmpegExperience in Linux, Mac and Windows operating systemsExperience working with a source version control system (git)Experience in animation productionsGood understanding of production pipelinesExperience with agile development and scrum methodologyUser interaction design with a working knowledge of standard UI toolkits (PySide2)3 years of experience preferredBonus SkillsExperience in computer animation, visual effects, or the game industryExperience supporting animation pre-production departments such as Story, Editorial, and PrevizExperience with pipeline and plugin development in third party DCC toolsExperience with software development languages such as Java, Javascript, C++Experience with other toolkits and systems such as Qt, Docker, Git, AWSExperience with OSX, Windows, and Linux operating systemsRecruitment Fraud AlertIt has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activity by individuals impersonating our Talent Acquisition team. Skydance will only contact you from an official '@skydance.com' email address. If you suspect that you are being contacted by an unauthorized person or believe that the correspondence you have received is suspicious, please do not click on any links or attachments in such emails and submit any questions or concerns to our information security team at https://skydance.com/report-suspected-fraud/ Reference: ECNJOBID-3-67-103-209 in the application #J-18808-Ljbffr

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