Assistant Technical Directors
Method Studios
Vancouver, BCThis was removed by the employer on 10/6/2015 11:48:00 AM PST
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Full Time Job
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Pipeline Supervisor, the 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 Maya or Houdini tools and utilities. This is a service-oriented role and the ATD should have a helpful, patient and accommodating personality.
Duties
* Work closely with production teams, artists, and supervisors to gather information.
* Diagnose technical issues and address them directly or escalate to the pipeline team.
* Debug problematic scenes in Maya, Houdini, Nuke, and other packages.
* Validate issues of artists Clearly express technical issues that come from artists in a way that is reproducible.
* Develop scripts to optimize various tasks for production.
* Monitor bug reports filed by production
Qualifications
* Programming experience, preferably in Python, C , MEL, Java.
* BS or Masters Degree, ideally in a technical field.
* Good interpersonal skills.
Bonus experience -
* Experience in our core applications: Maya, Houdini, Nuke.
* Experience with database programming, either relational or NoSQL.
* Familiarity with Unix operating systems.
* High level of technical aptitude.
* Web programming experience using JavaScript or PHP