Senior Creature Development Specialist

1 week ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia beBeeCreaturesupervisor Full time $150,000 - $180,000
Creature Supervisor Job Description

Overseeing the development of CG creatures from design to final render, you will work closely with the Head of Creature and Pipeline teams to improve departmental efficiency. Your key responsibilities include communicating with other departments, ensuring effective collaboration between Creature TDs and related teams within the pipeline.

As a successful candidate, you will lead by example in implementing challenging work yourself, and with on-the-spot guidance, as well as through planned training schemes implemented with in-house trainers. You will also mentor a team through technical and creative challenges.

Key Requirements:

  • Proven high-end feature film VFX experience, featuring major creatures/characters on multiple projects
  • Thorough knowledge of most areas of creature specialisation
  • Full working knowledge of Maya
  • Comfortable with technical aspects of creature work and strong critical visual and artistic skills
  • Familiarity with pipeline issues and typical creature heavy post production environment
  • Strong leadership qualities with proven ability and experience supervising teams

Nice to Have:

  • Programming or scripting skills (MEL, Python, VEX)
  • Experience with Ziva, Houdini and USD
  • Experience creating crowd simulations

Ideal Candidate Traits:

  • Organised, pro-active and a self-starter
  • Team player and clear communicator, with keenness for collaboration
  • Approachable and personable team leader, with strong motivational qualities
  • Adaptable and willing to learn new skills and techniques - including proprietary software
  • Calm under pressure and committed to meet production deadlines
  • Positive, can-do attitude

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