Lead Technical Animator - Vancouver, Canada - ICON Creative Studio

ICON Creative Studio

Verified Company

Vancouver, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Job description

Founded in 2013, ICON Creative Studio is Canada's largest independently owned animation entertainment company located in the historic Gastown district of Vancouver, BC, Canada.

With almost 400 design, storyboarding, modelling, rigging, animation, technical animation, lighting, visual effects and compositing artists alongside creative and management teams.

Lead Technical Animator (Shot Finaling)

Experience:

Advanced animation and modeling skills
Advanced knowledge on Maya nDynamics. Action shots with multilayered cloth, displaying understanding of cloth collisions and nucleus attributes
Experience leading a team and training new hires.
Comfortable delegating tasks

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the hardest cloth shots on the team
Good understanding of Icon's rig systems, being able to add cloth systems in specific shots
Comfortable with hand animating hair and cloth when needed
Understanding of modeling for topology fixing and UV mapping
Basic Arnold knowledge
Intermediate to advanced Python knowledge, able to understand errors and edit parameters for error fixing
ICON Creative Studio is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

*Ask us about our generous benefits program.

Job Types:
Full-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 12 months

Salary:
$50,000.00-$90,000.00 per year

Benefits: