Senior Technical Artist - Crowds
Description
Senior Technical Artist - Crowds
Synthesis AI is pioneering the use of synthetic data to build more capable AI. Our proprietary synthetic data and simulation platform enables the programmatic generation of vast amounts of photorealistic images and accompanying pixel-perfect labels. We empower the largest tech companies in the world and are looking to add to our world-class team of visual effects artists.
We are looking for a strong Houdini Generalist, Technical Artist, or Crowds Technical Director to join our growing team. Utilize your creativity and technical expertise to generate procedural systems within SideFX Houdini and other applications to service our customer’s growing needs for synthetic data.
Responsibilities:
Create and maintain procedural workflows/node-graphs for houdini crowd systems, character rigging and motion retargeting
Partner with back-end departments to maintain and improve the CG pipeline
Interface with external contractors to build an animation & motion capture library
Qualifications:
Minimum 2 years of Houdini experience
Minimum 3 years experience with crowd simulation, character rigging or motion capture pipelines for feature films or AAA games
Strong understanding of Python programming and CG pipelines
Hands-on exposure to pipeline development
Excellent communication and documentation skills
Bonus Qualifications:
This opportunity is fully benefitted and 100% remote.