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Senior Surfacing Technical Director, Blizzard Cinematics
1 year ago
Team Name:
CinematicsJob Title:
Senior Surfacing Technical Director, Blizzard CinematicsRequisition ID:
R016082Job Description:
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a hardworking and motivated Senior Surfacing Technical Director (TD) to join our cinematics team. Our cinematics have a variety of ranges in styles and complexity, so we are seeking team members who are passionate about crafting tools and technology for producing these movies. You would help augment commercial packages such as Katana, Mari, and Substance to offer a flexible workflow for surfacing artists in building extraordinary, animated cinematics, as well as building new stand-alone workflows.
The ideal candidate should have knowledge of a surfacing production pipeline and will work closely with technical and art supervisors so strong communication is a must. They will also drive the technical vision for the department as well as provide technical support in the look development process.
If you love a challenge and want to help provide critical support to artists, then we would be thrilled to have you on board!
Requirements
- Developing, modifying, deploying, and debugging software
- Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills
- Strong verbal and written communications skills
- Understanding of techniques and technologies relating to CG pipelines and workflows, from asset creation to final compositing
- Well-versed in third-party computer graphics programs such as Katana, Mari, PRMan, and Redshift
- Experience writing tools or plugins in commonly used third-party computer graphics programs
- Ability to shift priorities during production schedule changes
- Desire to function in a technical support role
- Ability to teach, guide, and educate surfacing artists methodically toward their own debugging to champion self-sufficiency in their own work
- Provide practical feedback on the surfacing pipeline and offer potential solutions on how to improve them
- Drive the technical vision of the surfacing and look development disciplines
Pluses
- Proficiency in Python and object-oriented programming
- Experience working in Windows or Linux environments
- Experience crafting tools in PyQt
- Understanding of computer graphics concepts such as rendering and shaders
- Familiarity with any common vfx platform libraries – openEXR, OpenVDB, Alembic, USD
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Engineering, or related fields
- Familiarity with Blizzard games and Cinematics
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, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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