Studio: Industrial Light & Magic
Job Opening: Effects Technical Director
Location: London, United Kingdom
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Designs and creates FX animation, procedural simulation, dynamic simulation, particle and fluid systems.
- Light complex/multiple creatures (hairy or furry creatures) and elements.
- Can set-up and wrangle heavy particle effects and enormous crowd shots.
- Excellent pipeline scripting ability.
- Solid compositing ability, can wrangle blue-screen extractions, working knowledge of Nuke.
- Can write plug-ins, debug simulations and write set up and surface shaders with proficiency.
- Can write/hack procedural surface shaders and volumetric shaders with proficiency.
- Can animate moderate objects with proficiency.
- Can pick up new techniques quickly and easily and can debug just about anything.
- Sets a standard for all Technical Directors in continually raising the bar for speed, quality of work and adaptability.
- Create feature film quality effects using Houdini.
- Coaching and mentoring artists in new techniques and efficiencies.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Proven production experience or feature film experience with effects simulation work.
- Experience in computer science, engineering or computer graphics or equivalent work experience.
- Demo reel required.
- Ability to work with competency, energy and enthusiasm within a team environment with minimal supervision to complete a shot.
- Exhibits excellent listening and communication skills, able to receive direction and criticism.
- Excellent presentation/communication skills in dailies/shot review by clearly and briefly outlining what has been accomplished and what next should be addressed in the shot.
- Engages in the creative process without ego, and accepts all final decisions with a positive and supportive attitude.
- Demonstrates an excellent aesthetic eye, anticipating potential problems and using knowledge of how to use the tools to achieve the desired look.
- Demonstrates superb problem-solving skills and takes the initiative to offer ideas and suggestions.
- Prioritizes tasks and manages time very well.
- Advanced simulation experience with Houdini, Maya, or other software, and the ability to write expressions.
- C++ skills.
- Linux and scripting ability in Python.
- Experience in MEL
