Technical Director

THIS IS FOR OUR DALLAS LOCATION!!!!!

We are currently hiring for our visually captivating animated feature, which tells a Romeo and Juliet style love story set against the Mexican “Day of the Dead” back drop, directed by Jorge Gutierrez (”El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera”) and produced by Guillermo del Toro!
We are looking for TD candidates to join and work with collaborative in-house team.

The Technical Director is a production position. The Technical Director works closely with the production Supervising Technical Director and production artists to support the technical execution of a project. Technical directors guide projects through the production pipeline by validating production assets, troubleshooting scenes, writing tools, and addressing technical challenges across all disciplines of the CG pipeline. The successful candidates have the ability to identify deficiencies in the technical process and to research, design, and implement solutions to enhance production workflow. The technical director must work well in a team-oriented production environment, where daily proactive problem solving and technical innovation are expected.

• Works closely with the production supervisors in the early strategy and technical setup of a project in order to clearly define workflow, optimize efficiencies, and enable fluid handoff of assets between departments for each stage of the pipeline.
• Troubleshoots problems across all pipeline disciplines: examples include validation of modeling and texturing integrity and performance, Asset (characters, props and environments) development and publishing, animation issues, lighting and rendering problems.
• Studies issue patterns and trends, identifies common technical problems in a production, and recommends/implements new processes or workflows to address those problems.
• Identifies efficiency tool development needs and works directly with leads, artists, and the Pipeline Tools group to define requirements, develop and test prototypes, and develop end solutions.
• Locates, tests, and diagnoses issues with rendering workflow or output, including the maintenance and troubleshooting of shaders and tools.
• Monitors the handoffs between departments and identifies problematic areas or process bottle-necks: examples include asset publish upstream from departments, ingestion and management of animation data, and integration of character and visual effects into lighting scenes.
• Collaborates with other technical directors and software developers, attends regular production technology team meetings and serves an active role in the direction of the pipeline.