Studio: Scanline VFX
Job Opening: Render Supervisor
Location: Toronto, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Executive Management, Pipeline Leadership, and Show Supervision team to assess rendering requirements for production and improve rendering pipeline
- Create weekly reports of the farm usage and reports to management any render farm issues or recurring job errors
- Manage and build a team of Render Assistants
- Oversee prioritization of the farm usage based on production needs on a cross-project/facility basis
- Detect jobs that have longer rendering times than necessary and offer support for job optimization and troubleshooting
- Create workflows to better detect rendering times and maximize farm usage and ensures proper documentation
Qualifications & Skills:
- Knowledge of Deadline or similar farm management tools
- At least two (2) years of experience in render farm management at a VFX or animation facility
- Ability to lead and train members of a team
- Knowledgeable in 3D content creation tools such as Maya, 3ds Max, Vray, Houdini
- Significant experience with analytics/monitoring solutions, ideally elasticsearch and/or grafana
- Experience with scripting in PythonExcellent problem-solving skills
- Good communication skills and ability to synthesize relevant reports and statistics
- Understands the requirements in render job prioritization
- Highly technical, capable to help debug rendering artifacts or render-farm issues
- Experience in using Windows/Linux-based machines
- Understands the role of hardware in a render-farm and able to discuss with the IT department on needs, issues, and bottlenecks
- Experience in active supervision on a show a plus
