Feature Animation - Environment Technical Director

Description

The Environment TD on the Animated feature will be a generalist technical director that work strictly in the environments department under the supervision of the Environments Supervisor. Responsibilities include (but not limited to): Set Assembly: Importing of assets into sets and placement based on PPA set and turnover notes. When appropriate, add custom lights and other basic effects (working with fx department leads). When appropriate fix basic asset look issues while building sets. Use(and help develop) various tools to streamline set construction. With the guidance from the Environments Supervisor, explore procedural texture generation techniques. Set Dressing: Application of particle based setdressing techniques. Application Curve based (and hair system) set dressing techniques . Help in the development and implementation of general procedural instancing techniques based on set specific challenges. Set Rendering: Create set level look that allows the rendering of the set and all it's children atomic assets. Work with Lighting leads and Lighting supervisor to help streamline set render times. Work with Lighting leads and Lighting supervisor to help troubleshoot sets at the shot level. Application of LOD techniques when required.