Shader-FX TD

Description

Weta Digital is currently looking for Shader TDs with specific skills in the field of authoring and producing materials for FX rendering.

Candidates will ideally have at least 5 years of feature film experience and display the following attributes:

• Strong lookdev skills both artistically and technically with great experience and understanding of rendition of natural phenomena, including but not limited to fire, water, smoke, dust, fog, explosions.
• Experience in shading, rendering, optimizing materials for photo-real feature films.
• Ability to come up with creative, efficient rendering solutions for a wide variety of fx-based assets, ranging from real world to fictional/fantasy/sci-fi ones. 
• FX simulations and dynamics experience a plus 
• Familiarity with Houdini a plus. 
• Experience with all aspects of the rendering pipeline. 
• Strong organisational skills. 
• Strong communication and task management skill, and ready to take more responsibility and leadership of a group of people from different departments.

If you are attending Siggraph 2016, please note this in your cover letter.