Visual Effects & Graphics Engineer
Description
Walt Disney
Television is seeking an experienced Visual Effects/Graphics Support Engineer,
who will work closely with FX Network’s award winning Marketing team. This team
utilizes industry standard software tools to generate and complete graphics in
a fast turn television broadcast environment. The Engineer must have
excellent communication skills and be able to consult, train, knowledge share,
interact, and develop relationships with engineering, graphic artists, creative
directors and management.
Responsibilities:
- Perform
system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all
hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system
and application logs.
- Assist
VFX artists in resolving technical or operational issues.
- Orchestrate
workstation management, imaging, and configuration.
- Ensure
proper documentation of systems and procedures.
- Assess,
troubleshoot, and resolve user hardware/software issues and/or failures.
- Orchestrate and
perform the upgrading and configuring of infrastructure systems, software
and firmware patches and upgrades to operating systems as needed.
- Maintain
server room environmental and monitoring equipment, license servers, as
well as asset tracking systems.
- Research
and implement new technologies that optimize the creative vision of the
department.
Requirements:
- Four
year college degree or equivalent work experience required.
- At
least 3+ years of work experience in the VFX industry.
- Preferred
knowledge of the following systems/software:
- Adobe CC and Adobe After Effects, and After
Effects rendering workflows.
- NUKE compositing software and workflows.
- Maya with Vray, C4D, and 3D Studio Max.
- Houdini and Houdini FX.
- 3D rendering workflows including Redshift or
other GPU renderers, render farm, distributed render setup and operation
including AWS Thinkbox Deadline render management software.
- Javascript/NodeJS and Python for After Effects,
Maya and Nuke.
- Storage environments including SAN, NAS, LTO, and
cloud backup workflows required.
- Broadcast specs and general post-production.
- Pipeline creation and management.
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