FX Technical Director required at Hornet

FX Technical Director required at Hornet

Studio: Hornet

Job Opening: FX Technical Director

Location: New York, NY

Type: Full-Time

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with CG department stakeholders on maintaining and refining the production pipeline and asset library.
  • Mentoring and supervising Junior developers and Technical Artists.
  • Management of code base and coding integrity including code reviews and pull requests.
  • Research and keep up to date on industry production standards, software, and hardware related specifically to CG and Compositing.
  • Help support render needs for projects with onsite and offsite render farms as required.
  • Work with Director, CG Supervisor, CG Lead and creative team to provide and develop CG solutions on jobs in production.

Qualifications & Skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • Minimum of 5+ years as a Pipeline TD working on the automation of a visual effects / CG animation studio.
  • Full-Stack Experience using the MERN stack or similar.
  • Expert level experience with version control for code and visual assets.
  • Has worked in a scrum and agile environment and is familiar with a SDLC.
  • Expert level experience with AWS (EC2, Spot Requests, ECS, IAM, basic architecture).
  • Experience with Database management systems.
  • Pipeline for advertising, episodic television, and/or feature film.
  • Advanced Python scripting experience required.
  • Familiarity with Rendering Queue Platforms such as Deadline.
  • Familiarity with Production Tracking Platforms such as ftrack or ShotGrid.
  • Advanced experience implementing custom UX / UI using PySide and/or PyQT.
  • Experience with one or more of Autodesk Maya, SideFX Houdini, Foundry Nuke or similar.
  • Thorough understanding of the entire visual effects / CG animation process, asset creation, animation, lighting, rendering, and compositing.
  • Ability to take direction and feedback from stakeholders.

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