Studio: Animal Logic Entertainment
Job Opening: Senior Grooming and Lookdev TD
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Create detailed hair and fur grooms rigs for a wide variety of assets using proprietary tools and/or Houdini
- Create guide hairs and styling for character grooms, while adhering to technical and organisation standards
- Create procedural grooms as required for the project, which may include cloth and/or instancing
- Take direction from the Surfacing Lead and Supervisor, and present solutions or questions to creative or technical issues
- Participate in reviews as required; be willing to show and discuss work in progress
- Pro-actively escalate technical issues to Lead, Supervisor or TD’s
- Assume responsibility for ensuring assigned work is produced to appropriate standard quality within the scheduled timeframe and deadline
- Provide leadership through example – has team spirit, highly motivated, takes initiative, is pro-active, and inspires the same in others
- Assist with project clean up and archiving on an ongoing basis
- Follow all department guidelines and common practices
- Stay up-to-date on technology and the entertainment industry
- May be asked to create photo-realistic textures, either hand painted or procedural, or sculpting, and UV layout
- May be asked to build shading networks for photo-realistic (physically plausible) shading
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years’ experience on feature films, TV and/or animated feature working on high quality Surfacing with a focus on Grooming (preferably on photo-realistic assets)
- Proficiency demonstrated through past project work and/or reel/portfolio
- Production experience with grooming, hair/fur or instancing tools – preferably in Houdini
- Knowledge of node-based procedural grooming
- Excellent attention to detail
- Production experience in Maya and preferably Mari
- Experience in a modern raytracing package
- A passion for making beautiful looking photo-realistic hard surface cg objects by combining strong visual and technical skills
- Strong written and verbal English language skills
- Strong communication skills and the ability to efficiently organise and prioritise work across multiple areas
- Excellence in problem solving and balancing quick turnaround with long term quality
- Ability to work solo as well as collaboratively within a team environment
- Ability to take direction and feedback and apply this to assets or shots
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, visit https://boards.greenhouse.io/animallogic/jobs/3210700