Associate Pipeline Technical Director
Aplicar ahora Aplique más tarde Job ID 10055958 Ubicación Bombay, India Business Industrial Light & Magic Fecha de publicación 07/08/2024Detalles del empleo:
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
Acerca de Industrial Light & Magic:
Fundado en 1975 por George Lucas, ILM es la instalación de efectos líder en el mundo, que presta servicio a las industrias cinematográfica, de producción comercial y de atracción. ILM ha creado efectos visuales para más de 325 largometrajes y ha jugado un papel clave en siete de los 10 éxitos mundiales de taquilla más importantes de todos los tiempos y ha contribuido en 25 de los 50 mejores. ILM ha establecido el estándar para los efectos visuales, creando algunas de las imágenes más impresionantes de la historia del cine. A la vanguardia de la revolución digital, la compañía continúa abriendo nuevos caminos en efectos visuales, realidad virtual, realidad aumentada y cine inmersivo.
Acerca de The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, junto con sus subsidiarias y afiliadas, es una empresa internacional diversificada líder en entretenimiento familiar y medios de comunicación que incluye tres segmentos comerciales principales: Disney Entertainment, ESPN y Disney Experiences. Desde sus humildes comienzos como estudio de dibujos animados en la década de 1920 hasta su reconocido nombre en la industria del entretenimiento en la actualidad, Disney continúa con orgullo su legado de crear historias y experiencias de clase mundial para toda la familia. Las historias, los personajes y las experiencias de Disney llegan a consumidores e invitados de todos los rincones del mundo. Con operaciones en más de 40 países, nuestros empleados y miembros del elenco trabajan juntos para crear experiencias de entretenimiento que sean apreciadas a nivel local y global.
Este puesto es en Lucasfilm Visual Effects (India) Private Limited , que forma parte de una empresa comercial que denominamos Industrial Light & Magic.