Technical Director, Animation

Job Description

Founded in 1991, Hybride was the first digital visual effects company established in Q/uebec. For over 30 years, the Hybride team has been reinventing the VFX industry, one project at a time.
Job Description
What you'll do
• You will define the projects and improvements to the existing pipeline (Cinematics, Ingame Animation, Motion Capture, Ragdoll, Facial, Rig ..)
• Develop or find the best tools and methods to improve and facilitate the work of Animators.
• Optimize the animation graph and architecture
• Support the animation team on a daily basis to solve their technical problems and help them make decisions to optimize ingame animation graphs.
• Technical Guarantor with respect of the constraints established in partnership with the other trades (memory, FPS, on the different platforms)
• Develop tools, methods, training, processes and engine constraints documents for future reference
• Coordinate and act as interlocutor between the animation team and the Technical and artistic teams, it will be what we expect to achieve the high level of quality programming team
• Communicate regularly the technical constraints to the animation team
• Be the technical point of contact for technical problems related to animations
• Perform other related duties
• You will work closely with the other animation Technical Directors from the various cinematic teams to ensure workflow consistency and optimization.
Qualifications
What you bring to the team
• Solid experience as Animation Technical Director (in the video game industry preferably)
• Excellent knowledge of real-time animation systems and video games and/or pipeline development
• Excellent knowledge of Motion Builder and/or Maya, plus ideally Motion Capture Body and Facial
• Excellent knowledge of python
• Knowledge of another DCC (Maya, 3DS max, Blender)
• Ability to work in a team and to take up challenges.
• Knowledge in Rigging is a plus
What to send our way
• Your resume/CV highlighting your background and skills.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnoqp1-52-15-122-33-42 in your application.