Look Dev Technical Director
Tangent Animation, Canada

About Us:

Tangent Animation is a high-end feature animation studio focused on delivering the best creative with the industries top talent. We are located in Winnipeg, Toronto, and Vancouver and we are growing!

We live to innovate. That’s a bold statement, but we can back it up. We’re constantly digging for solutions to brain-breaking problems, ripping into new technology to take it for a spin and finding niche talent that adds something completely unexpected to the mix. Evolution is the name of the game around here. Our HR team is looking for people who thrive on answering wouldn’t it be cool if we?

Whether it’s the talent we corral, the animations we craft, or the technology we master, we live and breathe by high standards. Tangent was born to elevate and redefine what animation could be and set a new industry standard, so prepare yourself to raise the bar.

The ideal candidate has a keen artistic eye and experience with producing high quality look dev and shading for CG assets. Define all the technical and creative needs and to work closely with the Asset and Lighting team and VFX Supervisor to develop and construct the appearance for CG assets.

Responsibilities:

• Provide surfacing and shading/material solutions for a project.
• Create, revise, maintain and support shaders and digital assets.
• Develop new shading technology in conjunction with current lighting package and renderer
• Debug rendering setups and provide shading support for other departments
• Collaborate on best practices and work to remediate workflow inefficiencies
• Work closely with show leads, top-notch artists, as well as core developers to ensure a consistent style and quality across all shaders.

Requirements

• Strong Look Dev skills with an excellent understanding of wide range of style, both artistically and technically.

• 3+ years experience working as a Look Dev TD.
• Physically based shading/rendering in a raytracer
• Katana/Houdini/Gaffer production lighting experience.
• Solid understanding of all aspects of the rendering pipeline.
• Strong aesthetic eye and technical understanding of shading, texturing, lighting and look development.

• Highly detailed and organized in work practices
• Penchant for optimization and improvement
• Great team player in a highly fluid environment

Nice to Have:

• Experience with shader writing (Any shading language, though OSL preferred.)
• Scripting, and API knowledge

• Knowledge or experience with USD pipelines.
• Experience with Python, C, C++
• Experienced with UNIX/Linux

Benefits

• Great company culture, with a team that is very technically proficient, highly motivated amp; excited to work on projects that will change the industry
• Competitive health and dental benefits
• Casual dress-code

Does this sound like you or someone you know? We can’t wait to find out! Please apply online at https://www.tangent-animation.com/careers.

Tangent Animation is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation upon request for candidates taking part in the recruitment process.

Please contact our Human Resources department at if you require an accommodation.

We thank you for your interest, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

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