Company description:

Anima Vitae Point creates international animated films and series with passion and unique approach. As a company we strive to be innovative, nurture new fresh ideas and employ artists and technical personnel side by side. As home of other super-talented artists and technicians, Anima is a place where you can truly make an impact with your work, ideas and craftsmanship.

We are currently looking for a Junior Pipeline TD to join our quest.

Description:

Junior Pipeline TD will be reporting to the Pipeline Supervisor and will be involved in the creation and ongoing support of a large high-end animation pipeline and asset/project management system as well as Maya, Houdini and Nuke tools and utilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with production teams, artists, and supervisors to gather information
• Diagnose technical issues and address them directly or escalate them to pipeline team
• Develop new and support existing tools, for all stages in production
• Create, package and release tools using proprietary technology
• Work as triage, acting as a point person for production-related queries to pipeline department also diagnose technical issues and address them directly or escalate them to pipeline team
• Debug problematic scenes in Maya, Houdini, Nuke
• Validate artists issues and express them in a reproducible way.
• Develop scripts and tools to optimize various production tasks
• Monitor bug reports filed by production

Required Skills:

• BS, BA or Master’s Degree, ideally in a technical field
• 1+ years of experience developing code in the CG industry
• Experience in Maya, Nuke or Houdini
• Strong experience in Python
• Familiarity with Linux operating systems
• Production experience with a Render Farm, preferable deadline
• Excellent communication, troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience in designing and building database systems