Location
Chennai | India
Job description
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Create global and showbased scripts and tools inside DCC packages such as Maya Nuke and Houdini.
- working directly with artists to investigate and address urgent issues related to custom pipeline tools.
- Collaborate with pipeline team software developers CG Supervisors vfx supervisors and artists to troubleshoot/ improve and refine overall workflow and determine the best solutions to problems.
- Aids in the development and maintenance of applications and creative pipeline tools and techniques to improve productivity and workflow enhancements
- Provides weekly updates on Pipeline development status and notifies stakeholders of any upcoming production risks
- Meet delivery deadlines prioritize tasks and work proactively conforming to production needs.
Requirements:
- 4 years of experience in VFX or CG is required
- Solid understanding of the pipeline process of CG (modeling animation rigging texturing lighting fx) and compositing (Nuke).
- Experience in developing tools for DCC packages such as Maya Houdini and Nuke
- Complete knowledge of uptodate Production Technology/IT methods practices and trends
- Ability to collaborate and offer solutions with great problemsolving skills
- Strong communication skills both in written and verbal. The ability to articulate both with technical and nontechnical teams.
- The ability to translate an artists perspective while designing tools with a focus on usability
- Adequate working knowledge of Python and Mel.
- Team player who is able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Proficiency in working with one or more renderers (e.g. Renderman Mantra Arnold etc.) and experience with rendererspecific file formats.
- Ability to write documentation for tools is a bonus
Preferred Qualifications:
- Craft and update documentation for tools techniques and workflows generated by the Pipeline department.
- Previous leadership experience as a Pipeline TD.
- Degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or equivalent.
- Experience with source control systems and team development
- Experience with C SQL Shotgun Deadline is an asset
- UI development using PySide / PyQt4
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