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Lighting/Compositing TD, Cinematics

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Lighting/Compositing TD

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a talented, motivated, and experienced technical director (TD) to join our award-winning cinematics and animated short team. This Technical Director (TD) must have a thorough knowledge of look development, matte painting, FX, lighting, compositing and rendering tools, as well as back end and cross-pipeline workflows currently used in the CG and VFX industries. This TD role reports to the technology department but will be embedded in and work directly with our back-end production teams. They will work with technical and art supervisors to determine and implement workflows, tool requirements, asset needs, and pipeline efficiencies within their domain. There will be occasional crossover support for front-end departments, as well. They must be excellent communicators.

This position will be working in our Irvine CA location, however we are open to Remote workers.

Requirements

• Thorough understanding of techniques and technologies relating to CG pipelines and workflows
• Strong understanding of the CG production process, from asset creation to final compositing
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
• Very strong working knowledge of Nuke
• Strong working knowledge of Katana, Renderman, Maya, Photoshop, Houdini
• Experience with RLS/Shader workflows, Mari
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience developing Python tools, and implementing process improvements in a CG production environment
• Working knowledge of offline production rendering (RenderMan, Redshift)
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Strong desire to function in a technical support role

Highly Desirable Qualifications

• Nuke production compositing experience, scripting, and API knowledge
• Katana production lighting experience, scripting, and API knowledge
• General TD experience

Submission / Portfolio Requirements

• Resume (PDF of your resume please!)
• Cover letter

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

This role is anticipated to be assigned as a hybrid work model position, with some work on-site at an Activision Blizzard office and some work remote.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

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We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/ .