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Technical Director
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Burbank, CA
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How do I hire a Technical Director? We are a full service Stop Motion Animation Studio currently looking for a Technical Director to help develop and maintain our production pipeline, assist in production needs, renderfarm management and create software/script tools to facilitate daily operations. Interest and experience with 3D-printing, photogrammetry, and VR toolsets is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Work with artists, leads, and supervisors to understand day to day production workflow needs
- Help develop and implement work from home solutions for multiple departments during COVID
- Collaborating with Head of Production, Producers, Directors, Artists to identify and design workflows
- Develop and maintain Animation and Pipeline Tools for Thinkbox Deadline, After Effects and Maya + V-Ray
- Modification and maintenance of existing tools to suit the needs of the studio, projects, and artists
- Develop and integrated tools for Shotgun Toolkit in a Multi-OS Multi-Client environment
- Provide technical support, troubleshoot artist tools and manage expectations
- View production systems holistically and visualize the larger pipeline while understanding the impact of their actions
Qualifications
- 2+ years experience working in a production environment
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Digital Art, other related field or equivalent work experience
- Thorough understanding of VFX and/or Animation production and pipeline development practices
- Excellent organizational, communication, problem solving, and documentation skills
- Motivated self-starter able to handle multiple priorities at once
- Strong knowledge in Shotgun Toolkit, Python and Qt (or similar)
- Experience with a variety of commercial graphics applications such as Maya, Nuke and GI renderers such as VRay or Arnold. Cloud rendering a plus
- High level of proficiency developing software
- Experience with GSuite for Enterprise
- Ideally, experience with: Unreal Engine, 3-D printing, photogrammetry, virtual reality, and managements of workstations via services like Kandji, Kolide or Fleetsmith
- Willingness to follow COVID and general health and safety guidelines as detailed by company when/if physical production is required
Covid-19 precautions
- Remote interview process
- Personal protective equipment provided or required
- Plastic shield at work stations
- Temperature screenings
- Social distancing guidelines in place
- Virtual meetings
- Sanitizing, disinfecting, or cleaning procedures in place
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How do I hire a Technical Director? We are a full service Stop Motion Animation Studio currently looking for a Technical Director to help develop and maintain our production pipeline, assist in production needs, renderfarm management and create software/script tools to facilitate daily operations. Interest and experience with 3D-printing, photogrammetry, and VR toolsets is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Work with artists, leads, and supervisors to understand day to day production workflow needs
- Help develop and implement work from home solutions for multiple departments during COVID
- Collaborating with Head of Production, Producers, Directors, Artists to identify and design workflows
- Develop and maintain Animation and Pipeline Tools for Thinkbox Deadline, After Effects and Maya + V-Ray
- Modification and maintenance of existing tools to suit the needs of the studio, projects, and artists
- Develop and integrated tools for Shotgun Toolkit in a Multi-OS Multi-Client environment
- Provide technical support, troubleshoot artist tools and manage expectations
- View production systems holistically and visualize the larger pipeline while understanding the impact of their actions
Qualifications
- 2+ years experience working in a production environment
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Digital Art, other related field or equivalent work experience
- Thorough understanding of VFX and/or Animation production and pipeline development practices
- Excellent organizational, communication, problem solving, and documentation skills
- Motivated self-starter able to handle multiple priorities at once
- Strong knowledge in Shotgun Toolkit, Python and Qt (or similar)
- Experience with a variety of commercial graphics applications such as Maya, Nuke and GI renderers such as VRay or Arnold. Cloud rendering a plus
- High level of proficiency developing software
- Experience with GSuite for Enterprise
- Ideally, experience with: Unreal Engine, 3-D printing, photogrammetry, virtual reality, and managements of workstations via services like Kandji, Kolide or Fleetsmith
- Willingness to follow COVID and general health and safety guidelines as detailed by company when/if physical production is required
Covid-19 precautions
- Remote interview process
- Personal protective equipment provided or required
- Plastic shield at work stations
- Temperature screenings
- Social distancing guidelines in place
- Virtual meetings
- Sanitizing, disinfecting, or cleaning procedures in place
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