Lead Dept.Technical Director
Bangalore, Karnataka

Job Title       : Lead Dept.Technical Director
Reports To   : Department TD Supervisor
Department : Department TD

Job Description and Responsibilities:

A Technical Director (TD) provides critical support to a show's artists and department heads. A Technical Director will design, develop, and implement new tools and processes for a particular show or department. As needed, a Technical Director may be asked to do shot work. The Lead Technical Director will provide mentorship and direction to the technical directors under the supervision of the department supervisor. A Lead Technical Director should have extensive experience in the animation / visual effects industry and be able to use that experience to help build the technical directors department and help create efficiencies over the entirety of the pipeline.

• Provide leadership to the department technical directors.
• Work cross departmentally to create opportunities for pipeline improvements and create efficiencies.
• Provides technical support for aiding artists with the completion of computer graphics shots.
• Assists artists with troubleshooting and debugging of production issues.
• Support and develop tools and procedures, which maintain and enhance the production pipeline.
• Create documentation.
• Ensure software development follows studio policies and guidelines.
• Assist in training and mentoring of other TDs as required and appropriate.
• Assist in envisioning studio goals. Can work on goals with supervision.
• Works with multiple departments and across multiple areas of Technical Direction.
• Develops and implements new computer graphic techniques.
• Provide support and development of tools and procedures to extend and enhance the pipeline.
• Assist animators and artists with troubleshooting of shots. Issues may include problems with fur, clothing, particle effects, animation, and rendering.
• Support and work with multiple departments, including Modeling, Animation, Lighting, FX, and Research and Development.
• Work closely with other Technical Directors, Production Supervisors, VFX Supervisors, and Production Engineering to maintain and further the production pipeline.
• Assist in training and mentoring of other Entry Level and Associate Technical Directors.

• Ability to take direction and work in a team environment.
• Ability to pay close attention to detail; oftentimes on repetitive tasks.
• "Customer first" mentality and willingness to provide direct support to individuals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with the Unix environment.
• Strong math and programming skills.
• Must have a positive attitude.
• Ability to support (non-technical) artists teaching or tutoring experience, project roles that interface between developers and clients.
• Excellent problem-solving skills involvement in small teams tackling big multi-discipline projects.
• Sound computer science knowledge object oriented programming (OOP), design patterns, projects implementing large systems, C++, Python.
• Experience with computer graphics 3rd party packages like Maya, Max, Lightwave, coursework or other studies in computer graphics, 3D game development.

• Experience in the animation / vfx industry.
• Experience with team / department supervision.
• Experience with tool integration into existing or new pipelines.
• Experience with Maya or other 3rd Party Animation systems.
• Strong programming skills. Proficiency in C, C++, Object Oriented Programming, Python and/or Perl desired.
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently or within a group, and work with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional communication skills in dealing with both technical and artistic groups Education
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.

To apply email to careers.dwdedicatedunit@paprikaas.com with the name of theopening in the subject.