Studio: Industrial Light & Magic
Job Opening: Senior Creature Technical Director
Location: London, United Kingdom
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Simulating shots or sequences
- Creating simulation setups for cloth, hair and muscle
- Creating and maintaining animation rigs
- Collaborating with the rest of the department, R&D and pipeline in pioneering new workflows
- Documenting and mentoring the department’s artists on these workflows
- Debugging and troubleshooting rigs and simulations
Qualifications & Skills:
- Experience working on high end VFX or animated feature film productions
- Ability to communicate cross-discipline and provide innovative solutions to pipeline issues
- Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines whilst maintaining a high quality output
- Expert knowledge of Houdini and proficient in VEX and python
- Strong understating of Houdini input/output pipeline
- Demonstrable experience in creating complex character simulation setups in Houdini
- Strong understating of VFX asset/creature pipelines
- Experience with cloth/hair simulation
- Nice to have: Experience with realistic muscle/flesh simulation
