10089487

Glendale, California, United States

About the Role & Team

The CGI Supervisor will work closely with our studio’s Production teams, studio leadership, Post-Production, and our technology team for approximately 4 months to design and develop core tools for an evolving real time pipeline and production strategy.

What You Will Do

• Help drive the design, implementation, and evolution of a standardized Pipeline for the productions, applying show and facility resources.
• Work with the technology leadership, show leadership, and production management to ensure that the pipeline meets the needs of the company at large and diverges as little as possible between shows, while still meeting the needs of the individual productions.
• Work with the show’s production team and studio leadership to ensure adequate resource coverage and balance to meet the needs of a production.
• Monitoring the project's approval phases to minimize complications, schedule delays or budgetary overages.
• Ensure show leadership and animation service providers are aligned in budget and complexity parameters and expectations.
• Partner directly with the animation service provider throughout the production to strategize solutions around complexity and scope.
• Work with production to build clear, complete and comprehensive set of pre-production materials that balances creative vision, production capabilities and budget requirements is delivered to our partner studios.
• Act as an escalation point for Executive Producers, Production Management, and Artist Management to resolve conflicts; ensures limited resources are effectively applied, and artists efficiently tasked by matching artist skill-set to assignments, identifying cross-utilization opportunities whenever possible.
• Promote a positive and productive work environment and leads collaborative efforts across the facility.

Required Qualifications & Skills

The ideal candidate has previous supervising experience and can integrate artistic vision with technical know-how.

• BS in Computer Science or Computer Graphics or equivalent industry experience required.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in animation production technology.
• Experience managing software, pipeline, and/or technology teams.
• Must be able to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Unreal / Realtime pipeline experience is a significant plus.
• Solution-oriented outlook and a pro-active personality; willing to roll up their sleeves and directly fix shot, data, or asset issues.
• Knowledge of all CG production processes required. These include modeling, rigging, surfacing, lighting, and EFX.
• Well versed in rendering with experience in shaders, geometry processing and lighting.
• Experience with CPU and GPU optimizations.
• General experience with C/C . Python, shell scripting and process automation in a production environment.
• Must also be well versed and have production experience with multiple DCC packages in Maya, Nuke, Houdini, Arnold, After EFX, and Photoshop. Toon boom Harmony a plus.
• Experience dealing with overseas animation studios is a plus

The hiring range for this position in Burbank, California is $2,126.40 to $2,480.80 per week based on a 40 hour work week, which follows the pay scale agreed upon in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The base pay actually offered may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.