Crowds Technician

Become a part of the crew of the crowd team at Ilion in charge of developing and maintaining the crowd simulation system within our existing pipeline.

Main responsibilities

• Developing crowds techniques, tools and automatization
• Works closely with the R&D staff to develop software support tools and assist with integration tasks, particularly with Arnold, our renderer.
• Capability to organize and maintain complex crowd data
• Ability for cycles and assets database management and share data to all parts of the pipeline.
• Shots assistant and troubleshooting technical issues
• In charge of visualization and final crowd shots
• Works on production sequences to produce crowd shots from several to thousand agents crowd framework.
• Report to the Crowd Supervisor.

Qualifications

• Production experience in computer animation, visual effects, or game industry
• Understanding of crowds system: agents,behavior, simulation
• Strong proficiency with Maya
• Strong proficiency with scripting languages (i.e. Maya Mel, Python, etc.) C/C++ is a plus.
• Rigging experience a plus
• Animation experience a plus
• Cloth simulation experience a plus
• Comprehension of CG pipelines, from asset creation to final shot

Skills

• Creative solving skills
• Good appreciation for the artistic and technical requirements
• Ability to work in a team environment under tight deadlines
• Attention to detail