Studio: Anima Studios
Job Opening: Pipeline Technical Director
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Develop pipeline and asset management tools to meet immediate, show-directed production demands, ensuring facility-wide consistency as directed by show and technical supervisors.
- Help maintain a wide array of existing workflows and scripts.
- Provide front-line production support across a wide range of disciplines, troubleshoot assets and shots, and help artists with general problem-solving.
- Monitor email requests, package up problems, and redirect to appropriate engineering team.
- Test and validate tools and techniques in production.
- Work closely with engineering teams in testing, and releasing new and modified software systems.
- Act as an on-call resource for show production staff.
- Collaborate effectively with artists, production supervisors, and technical staff across studios in Malaysia & Finland.
- Work primarily on tools of moderate complexity, requiring general understanding of the larger pipeline.
- Provide front-line support and gather information about artist problems and obstacles; resolve complex user errors; connect artists with deeper problems to appropriate technical support.
- Develop broad knowledge of software, systems, and standards and conventions used in production.
- Update documentation for the pipeline and tools to reflect any changes that are made.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in animation or visual effects for film or television.
- Experience developing for Maya, Nuke, or Houdini.
- Strong experience in Python.
- Proficiency in Linux.
- Excellent communication, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Good understanding of the entire animation process, from layout to modeling and texturing, rigging, animation, rendering, and compositing.
- Experience in designing and building database systems.
