Hasta La Motion!

A Mid-Level Environment Technical Director is responsible for helping to design and construct Environment rigs, along with general Environment tasks on whichever show he or she is currently assigned to.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist senior Environment TDs in the design and construction of Environment scenes.
• Adequately document any specific method used on a show, ensuring that documentation is available to the Environment department as a whole.
• Check renders and release to the Hub for the comp department to gather.
• Update and release the Environment Packages to the Hub.
• Regularly release dailies so that progress on a shot can be assessed.
• Attend dailies sessions and obtain feedback on dailies from supervisors.
• Report any day-to-day problems or concerns to the lead Environment TD on the show and any software issues to the appropriate support list.
• Work with the Environment R&D support team to improve the feature set and stability of our toolset.
• Improve his or her knowledge and understanding of MPC’s Environment toolset and pipeline.
• Needs to be proactive and fairly autonomous.

Experience:

• A Mid-Level Environment TD should have between two and three years experience in Environment work, either in commercials, TV or features. A generalist background would be preferred with a good understanding of all the 3D process from modelling to compositing.
• Maya (or another 3D software)
• Scripting (Mel and Python preferred but not essential)
• Renderman (preferred but not essential)
• Photoshop
• NUKE (or any other compositing software).

Details:

• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: 7 months
• Location: Vancouver, Canada

If this role sounds of interest then please get in touch, sending a copy of your reel and resume to: amy-s@moving-picture.com

We look forward to hearing from you!