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Animation - New York

Technical Director

Connecticut / New York / New Jersey Animation - New York

Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.

While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working, Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the world’s most collaborative art form can achieve, and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio that’s doing something different.

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As a Technical Director, you will have a deep involvement in designing and developing innovative tools to overcome specific challenges related to the department’s developments for our next animated feature film. This effort seeks to implement solutions that off-the-shelf software would not provide while maximizing productivity and meeting the high quality standard set by the company. The scope of the developments may be from a simple python script to a larger development involving complex algorithms.

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Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the required tools following the requirements supplied by the production departments and following the Production Engineering Team guides

Partner with Artists and other Engineers to iterate, debug, document, and refine tools and processes for feature film production

Work on short-term needs, originated by shot challenges

Help first support line to solve day-to-day artist problems

Requirements

Expert in Python

Experience programming with one or more of the following software: Maya, Houdini, Nuke, and Mari

Experience working with a source version control system (git)

Experience with Arnold

Experience in animation productions

Good understanding of production pipelines

Experience with agile development and scrum methodology

User interaction design with a working knowledge of standard UI toolkits (PySide2)

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Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive, and animation divisions.

Skydance is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building and fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. We welcome and consider applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy status, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category. Diversity in the workplace is not just a commitment, it is who we are and a reflection of what makes our world special.

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