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As a Technical Artist you will be responsible for helping its assigned departments to solve technical issues.
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Responsibilities
- Give technical support to the assigned departments.
- Debug issues with key inputs & outputs eg. Farm errors, HDAs, internal tools, publishing processes
- Optimize department procedures.
- Strong knowledge of 2-3 departments.
- Assist supervisor is documenting the technical workflows.
- Attend technical meetings to as requested, to keep trained and updated in the new studio/department tools, pipelines, workflows, etc.
- Keeps up on current artistic methodologies and on technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company in the development of a stronger creative and technical environment.
- Collaborates with other team members, when necessary.
- Follows the department supervisor and leads’ instruction.
Requirements
- 3-5 years in VFX or animation industries.
- 1+ years in the animation industry is desirable.
- Strong artistic or/and technical aptitude related to 3D animation is a must.
- Some expertise in programming with Python
- Some Knowledge of USD
- Knowledge of some 3D animation area (Modeling, Surfacing, Animation, Lighting).
- Experience in any 3D animation Software (Maya, Max, or Houdini).
- Medium-High English level desirable.
- Spanish desirable
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