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Asset TD - Contract
2 years ago
Rooster Teeth Animation is looking for an Asset TD to support the growth of our Modeling and Look Development departments. The ideal candidate has experience generating scripts and tools to support the assets created in varying productions with direct input from the Modeling Lead and Art Director. A strong candidate will have a proven track record of technical strength, interpersonal skills, and production experience to help the company fulfill its objectives. Remote Work is Possible.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain tools to enhance and support Modeling and Look Development workflows in close collaboration with department leads.
- Provide creative solutions to challenging problems, based on team needs.
- Identify, diagnose, and suggest solutions to technical issues and production bottlenecks.
- Work with interdisciplinary teams of Engineers and Technical Directors to ensure delivery of assets through the pipeline
- Work closely with department leads to establish a roadmap of feature requests and set priorities.
- Adhere to studio best-practices and coding standards, and participate in code review.
Requirements
- 5+ years working in a production environment in an artistic or technical role
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- Expert understanding of Maya
- Expert understanding of Zbrush
- Expert understanding of 3DS Max
- Experience with modular building workflows and tools
- Python experience required
- Mel Script Experience required
- Max Script Experience a plus
- Substance Experience a plus
- Passion and ability to work as a positive, collaborative, enthusiastic, ambitious and contributing member with a real desire to work with the team to find solutions
- Familiarity with Shotgun
Bonus if You Have
- Experience with Houdini
- Experience with Blender
- Experience with Unreal
About Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth is a fan-driven, community built entertainment company. From humble origins in a spare bedroom, Rooster Teeth created the web series Red vs. Blue, an innovative form of entertainment for a changing media landscape that sparked the growth of a passionate global fandom. From that foundation, Rooster Teeth pioneered a direct-to-consumer lifestyle brand for its growing online following with subscriptions, advertising, e-commerce, and live events. Rooster Teeth produces several original content series including RWBY, the most popular western-style anime series today, The Rooster Teeth Podcast, and daily video series featuring an in-house cast of influential talent. With broadcast and live-action production capabilities and a world class animation studio, Rooster Teeth engages industry-leading networks, streaming entertainment services and creative talent to develop projects that reach global audiences through its Studios division. Rooster Teeth cultivates the gaming lifestyle it helped define with partnerships through its industry-leading video-first podcast network, The Roost. Rooster Teeth has a massive global footprint of more than 45 million subscribers to its YouTube Network, 5 million unique weekly viewers across its
RoosterTeeth.com hub and more than 4 million registered community members. The company was founded in 2003, and is a subsidiary of Otter Media, a WarnerMedia company. Discover more at
RoosterTeeth.com.
We encourage individuals of all genders and historically marginalized communities to apply!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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