Animation TD
Sony Pictures Imageworks4 months ago
Vancouver, CanadaEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Optimize animation workflows through automation and best practices.
- Develop and maintain scripts, tools, and utilities for animation teams.
- Assist artists with technical issues throughout the production pipeline.
- Identify workflow inefficiencies and collaborate with artists and pipeline teams to build improvements.
- Coordinate with supervising animators to implement optimizations for sequences and assets.
- Support the proprietary animation pipeline and evaluate pipeline best practices.
- Author tool- and workflow-specific training materials.
- Communicate production progress and challenges to animation and pipeline leadership.
- Collaborate with other departments to resolve creative and technical dependencies.
Requirements
- Strong interest in visual development, film, animation, and computer graphics is a plus.
- Good knowledge of Maya; Unreal Engine and Houdini are a plus.
- Programming experience in Python.
- C++ experience is a plus.
- Bash, cshell, and Linux knowledge.
- Experience with Docker or other software distribution systems.
- Code-sharing and revision-control experience is a plus.
- Basic 3D or 2D artist experience is a plus.
- An undergraduate or graduate degree in Computing Science is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
- A growth mindset and willingness to learn, iterate, and seek feedback.
Benefits
- Healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSPs, sick leave, and vacation leave per company policy.
- Standard increases as applicable.
- Vancouver, BC work location; language in the work environment is English.
About Sony Pictures Imageworks
Sony Pictures Imageworks is a visual effects and animation studio that produces live-action VFX, character and creature work, and all-CG animation for feature films and streaming series. Operating as the VFX and animation unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment, it serves both Sony labels and external studios. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Vancouver with additional sites in Los Angeles and Montreal, the studio’s credits include the Spider-Verse films.