
Lighting/render Ta
6 days ago
**Flying Bark Productions is working on exciting projects such as Marvel Studios’ What If ? Disney Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, the recently announced Avatar: The Last Airbender feature film, Flying Bark’s own 200% Wolf, and many others.**
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**What do we do?**
Flying Bark Productions is a renowned independent producer of family-focused animation entertainment. For over 50 years, our full-service 2D and 3D production facility has created award-winning feature films and TV series such as _100% Wolf,_ _Maya: The Bee_ and _Blinky Bill: The Movie_.
With over 400 artists at our studios in Sydney and Los Angeles, and partner studios around the world, Flying Bark is one of the largest studios in Australia. Flying Bark is wholly owned by Studio 100: a vertically integrated entertainment powerhouse based in Europe, with theme parks, theatrical productions, and live action and animation studios in Belgium, Germany, France and the USA.
Flying Bark also provides world-class animation services for global clients including Paramount (_Avatar: The Last Airbender_) Nickelodeon (_Glitch Techs, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_), Marvel (_What If...?_), LEGO (_Monkie Kid_) and Disney+ (_Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur_).
**Why work with us?**
- We have an industry leading studio space in the heart of Sydney’s creative inner-west, complete with a cinema, quiet room, Zen Garden, games room, and state of the art animation facilities.
- Breakfast is served daily - on us
- We have cake days, movie nights, wrap parties & a Kulture Klub dedicated to coordinating our busy social calendar
- The Barkers have big hearts too, with out Paws for a Cause fundraising arm raising much needed funds for charities such as Beyond Blue, RSPCA and the Cancer Council.
- If you love dogs as much as we do, you can bring them to work
- Work from anywhere with our flexible remote working policy.
- We have a full slate and plans for international expansion so there is always plenty of opportunity for career development.
- Our employees say our culture is the best they've ever experienced - everyone is welcome and celebrated
- You'll have access to mental health resources and free counselling via our Employee Assistant Provider, Support Act.
**Position**: Lighting/Render TA
**Reports to**: Line Producer
**Supervisor/s**: VFX Supervisor, CG Supervisor
**Key relationships with**: Department Leads, Production Crew, IT, Pipeline Developers, Supervising Technical Crew
**Overview**:
The Lighting/Render TA is responsible for providing technical support for the crew for the Project/s with a focus on Lighting and Compositing teams under the guidance of the supervising technical crew and Production. They effectively support our rendering infrastructure and ensure basic help desk and IT support is being provided to the artists.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Daily technical support to the Lighting and Compositing crews;
- Identify and diagnose failing renders and malfunctioning render machines and notify the artists;
- Monitor the render queue to maximise resource efficiency and handle job priorities;
- Monitor and report resource utilisation such as disk space, node usage, job saturation, etc;
- Reviewing and resolving bug reports with the help of other system engineers;
- Quality control for shots delivered from upstream departments for delivery to Lighting;
- Quality control of Lighting Renders;
- Respond to rendering-related support requests;
- Working understanding of 3D packages like Katana, Maya and Nuke
And all other duties and responsibilities as reasonably required by the Production Company.
**Key Measures of Success**:
- Establishment of successful working relationships with key members of production and crew;
- Take direction from a Supervisor as required as well as an ability to seek guidance if unsure;
- Ability to adapt to a high pressure, fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities;
- Be flexible and responsive to changes;
- Complete tasks within production deadlines.
- Flying Bark Productions is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer._
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