Layout Technical Supervisor

2 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Dneg Full time

You will work with and coordination with multiple stakeholders both within the VFX Layout department as well as to other departments within DNEG.

**What you'll do**
- Works with the HOD to create a long term vision for the tools and workflows
- Collaborate with workflow architects and software development teams to manage priorities, guide, support and test the development of these tools
- Works with Pipeline TDs, Render Supervisors and the VFX Layout Department team to maintain our existing tools and setups
- Works with the Layout Supervisors and leads to define and enforce standardisation in workflow, output, and development best practices within the VFX Layout department
- Create clear and accurate documentation for methodologies and workflows
- Conduct crew training sessions & support wider training for the department by creating and maintaining our department training materials
- Represent the needs of the VFX Layout department in cross-department pipeline and R&D planning conversations
- Oversee artists work when they are assigned to department development tasks.

**Must have**
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in high end Feature Film VFX production
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience of full VFX and Layout pipelines
- Knowledge of Layout outputs including shot manifests, camera, animation and environment caches, cards etc.
- Excellent working knowledge of Maya and experience in developing tools for DCC packages in Maya
- High level of proficiency in all technical areas of VFX Layout including shot publishing, viewables, review, QC and presentation process
- Good understanding of practical cameras and camera techniques such as stitches and projections in a virtual environment
- A strong drive for visual excellence, optimization and efficiency to empower artists.

**About You**:

- An organised, motivated and proactive self-starter
- A collaborative, forward thinking, approachable leader and team player who is a clear communicator
- Able to provide technical advice and support for artists
- Adaptable, maintains a willingness to learn new skills and techniques - including proprietary software
- Calm under pressure and committed to meeting deadlines
- Good creative and technical problem-solving skills
- A positive, can-do attitude.

**Nice to have**
- Unreal (other game engine experience may be helpful)
- Previs, Virtual Production and Techvis experience
- Knowledge and experience with Nuke, USD, Houdini, Solaris & Renderman
- Coding experience in Python, MEL, Maya and Linux. (C++ is a plus)
- Experience in Feature Animation, TV, Games and Cinematics will also be taken into account.

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