Technical Director

Description

Job Title Creature TD
Company Industrial Light & Magic
Location Letterman Digital Arts Center
State California
City San Francisco
Benefited/Non-Benefited Benefited
Salary/Hourly Hourly
Job Description


Creature TDs are responsible for setting up and running flesh-surface, hair, cloth, rigid body simulations as well as able to wrangle rigging and creature pipeline issues proficiently under the direction and guidance of their supervisors.
* Set up and run proprietary cloth, hair, flesh surfaces and rigid body simulations.
* Hero-creature enveloping using a combination of commercial software packages and proprietary tools.
* Run flesh-volume simulations.
* Wrangle creature rigging issues for artists in other disciplines.
* Basic proficiency in another discipline: modeling, viewpaint, TD, or animation.
* Mentor entry level artists.
* Script utilities/tools/plug-ins in various software packages.
* Create dynamic simulations in packages such as Maya/XSI.
* Wrangle creature pipeline issues for artists in other disciplines.
* MOCAP data re-targeting in XSI/Maya.
* Act as wrangler for a creature and/or a specific technique used across multiple creatures.