Back End TD - Cinematics

Description

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a talented, motivated, and experienced back end technical director (TD) to join our cinematics team.  The back end TD must have a thorough knowledge of lighting and rendering tools, look development, matte painting, compositing, and related industry standard workflows, as well as related cross pipeline tools and workflows.  They will work with technical and artistic supervisors to determine workflows, tool requirements, and asset needs for the back end teams.  This individual will also implement artist tools and workflow automation.  They must be excellent communicators.

REQUIREMENTS

• Thorough understanding of techniques and technologies relating to CG back end disciplines
• Strong understanding of the CG production process, from asset creation to final compositing
• Excellent working knowledge of RenderMan, Vray, Redshift, and / or other renderers
• Clear working knowledge of lighting workflows and tools in CG Packages (e.g. Maya, Katana)
• Proficient python development skills and debugging techniques
• Outstanding problem-solving skills under pressure
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in developing tools, and implementing process improvements in a CG production environment
• Very comfortable within a Unix / Linux environment
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Technical support focused

• Excellent working knowledge of Maya
• Thorough working knowledge of Nuke and compositing workflows
• Shader development / RSL skills
• Strong programming design skills
• Shell scripting experience (c-shell, bash, etc.)
• Windows programming experience
• Able to create workflows or tools in new unfamiliar areas
• Generalist TD experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar field
• Familiar with Blizzard games and cinematics

• Resume
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