Generalist TD - 6 Months Contract

Location: Paris, IDF, fr

Company Description

Élue à plusieurs reprises l'un des meilleurs employeurs de Montréal et récipiendaire du prix Mercuriades 2022 pour Employeur de l'année - Grande Entreprise, Rodeo FX est une entreprise créative haut de gamme offrant des services en matière d'effets visuels, de publicité et d'expériences.

Nommée à plusieurs reprises aux Emmy® Awards pour son travail sur les séries Stranger Things saison 4, Avatar: The Last Airbender et The Lord of The Rings : The Rings of Power, l'entreprise indépendante, lauréate d'un Oscar®, compte près de 800 artistes qui travaillent dans des studios situés à Montréal, Québec, Toronto, Los Angeles et Paris.

Rodeo FX est un partenaire créatif des meilleurs studios du monde, notamment Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros. et Sony, et a collaboré à des publicités pour YouTube, NBC et Apple. Ses projets actuels incluent Dune: Prophecy, Silo saison 2 et Sonic 3. Parmi les projets récemment sortis, on cite The Rings of Power saison 2, Venom: The Last Dance, Time Bandits de Taika Waitit, et House of the Dragon saison 2.

Modalités de travail :

En tant qu’entreprise fondée et dirigée par un artiste, la créativité est au cœur de ce qui nous guide. Notre mission est d’offrir à nos talents la liberté, les ressources et l’environnement nécessaires pour produire un travail de qualité et s’épanouir dans un cadre stimulant, collaboratif et bienveillant.

Dans un souci d’alignement des équipes, de cohérence dans la prise de décision, de représentation de la culture et de leadership organisationnel, les équipes doivent travailler au studio cinq jours par semaine. Cette présence favorise une collaboration directe, une prise de décision rapide ainsi qu’une proximité essentielle entre les équipes, tout en contribuant activement à la vitalité et à la cohérence de notre culture de studio.

Job Description

The Generalist TD works closely with the Pipeline department to develop tools and solutions to ensure that VFX projects run smoothly, and to help artists from various specialties find technical solutions to problems encountered.

Main responsabilites:

• Create verifiable, efficient and reusable tools using software development best practices;
• Develop tools to meet production demands, ensuring that they meet departmental standards, as requested by supervisors and/or department heads;
• Maintain a wide range of workflows and scripts ;
• Provide front-line support to artists, troubleshooting assets and plans, and help artists find solutions to general problems ;
• Work with supervisors and chefs from different specialties to determine the best possible technical and creative approaches;
• Create and communicate documentation on the tools developed and provide training for artists;
• Perform quality control on work before submitting it for review/approval, ensuring that all technical specifications are met, that user requirements are satisfied and that peer review scores are taken into account ;
• Keep project team and/or TD leader informed of work progress, issues to be resolved, ramifications of problems encountered and recommend potential solutions;
• Ensure deadlines are met, informing the project team promptly if delays are expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar position, within the VFX or video-game industry;
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer visualization, computer animation or other related field, or equivalent work experience;
• Experience with Python script;
• Good knowledge of Houdini, Maya or Katana;
• Good understanding of Linux operating system; 
• Strong skills in debugging and development tests;
• Able to communicate solutions to issues in a clear and concise manner;
• Excellent sense of prioritization and respect of deadlines.

Additional Information

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