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Crowds Technical Senior Artist

MadridOn-siteFull-time

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Senior Crowds Technical Artist responsible for building master crowd rigs, authoring crowd agents, and guiding technicians in Houdini-based pipelines for production shots.

About this role

Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.
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As a Crowds Technical Senior Artist, you will assist the Crowds Supervisor with technical and creative approaches to an assigned sequence, creating master crowd rigs and deploying them to the team of crowd artists for production shots.

Responsibilities

  • Sets up crowd assets and HDAs within the existing Houdini pipeline and tests new procedures and workflows under the artistic supervision of the Crowds Lead and Supervisor.

  • Creates a rangeofcrowdagents (bipeds/quadrupeds and vehicles) forefficientsimulation.

  • Applies and executes crowd behaviors on shots with the highest quality standards.

  • Strong technicalproblem-solvingskillsincludingtheabilitytotroubleshoot pipeline issues and theabilitytoresolveshot-specifictechnicalchallengesindependently.

  • Keeps up oncurrentartisticmethodologies and ontechnologytrends and toolsthatbestsuittheproduction and thecompany in thedevelopmentof a stronger creative and technicalenvironment.

  • Works together with the team providing them with support, guidance and instruction in areas that contribute towards their artistic and professional growth.

  • Follows the Supervisor’s and Lead's guidance.

  • Provides hands-on assistance to the Crowd Animators.

  • GivesfeedbacktothedepartmentTD’sto continue thedevelopmentoftools and workflowsassociatedwith crowdfunding.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in VFX or animation industries.

  • 3+ years in the animation industry.

  • Excellent knowledge of Houdini Crowd system.

  • Working knowledge of Maya, Houdini in production environments.

  • Knowledge of procedural rendering in Renderman.

  • Experience in creating crowds for animated films

  • Deep understanding of the entire CG pipeline, from assets to lighting.

  • High English level desirable.

  • Spanish desirable.

Skills

CG Pipeline UnderstandingCrowd Agent CreationCrowd Animation WorkflowsCrowd BehaviorsCrowd ToolsHDAsHoudiniHoudini Crowd SystemLighting For CrowdsMayaPipeline DebuggingProcedural RenderingProcedural WorkflowsRenderManRiggingShot-specific TroubleshootingSimulationVehicle Crowding

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