Technical Director – Character

Job description:

The Technical Director – Character will be working under the supervision of the R&D Director and working closely with the others Technical Directors and the animation and rigging department. The work involves developing, deploying and maintaining assets to create main characters of a CG movie.

Responsibilities:

Management :

• Able to maintain deadlines and production quotas given by the production coordinator;
• Work with supervisors (CG, Animation, Modeling, Rigging);
• Maintain the monitoring system and communicate the work in progress;
• Attend R&D meetings and production meetings;
• Make the corrections requested by the R&D Director with an analytical mind;
• Complete tasks within the timeframe given by the production and R&D Director;
• Maintain a good team dynamics;

Development :

• Create production software and pipeline-related tools and solutions for animation rigging;
• Develop, deploy and support the configurations for the animation department;
• Integrate the required animation services in the pipeline (asset management, simulation render farm, revision control);
• Create interfaces and tools for assisting animation department;
• Work closely with the Rig TD for seamless rig interaction/integration with animation;
• Implement pipeline integration for animation related data and workflow;
• Train other TDs and artists on the simulation tools;
• Write the necessary documentation about developed tools and codes;
• Write PYTHON / MEL scripts required for rigs;
• Rigs reference and configuration;
• Perform peer code reviews for other TD;
• Use source code version control system to deploy code in production;

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Computer Animation or equivalent work experience required;
• Minimum 2 years production experience, animation, feature film, games or equivalent experiences;
• Bilingual (French and English);
• Good artistic eye;
• Production level understanding of:
  • Modelling, weighting and rigging to meet animation requirements;
  • Muscle Rigging and simulation needs;
  • Procedural and object-oriented programming languages.
  • Simulation Farm and related services.
  • Geometry / Curve caching concepts (alembic)
  • Renderman renderer, plugins and shaders.
• Working experience on:
  • LINUX / UNIX;
  • MAYA (animation / rig / NCLOTH);
  • MEL et PYTHON scripts;
  • PyQT or PySide;
  • Revision Control Systems:CVS, SVN, PERFORCE, GIT;
  • Modular pipeline development;
  • C / C++ (optional);
• Must be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada and available to work in Montreal, Quebec;

If you are interested in this position or you would like to recommend a candidate, please send your resume and demo by email at the following address: cv@latelieranimation.com.

Only the selected candidates will be contacted. Please note that you may be asked to provide references.

L’Atelier Animation is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Title : Technical Director – Character
Status : Contractual / Full-time
Location : Montreal
Annual Salary : To be discussed