育碧娱乐软件公司(Ubisoft Entertainment)是一家跨国的游戏制作、发行和代销商。作为多媒体工业的佼佼者,其广泛的业务稳步扩展,在和各老牌游戏公司合作的基础上,也在不断推出独特的产品,加强自己在国际市场上的影响力。
其中优秀的作品有《雷曼》(Rayman)、《刺客信条》系列(Assassins Creed)、《波斯王子》(Prince of Persia)、《细胞分裂》(Tom Clancys Splinter Cell)、《彩虹六号》系列(Tom Clancys Rainbow Six)、《看门狗》系列(Watch Dogs)等。
Animation Technical Director 动画技术总监
Job Summary:
The Animation Technical Director is the one to ensure the quality of the technical contents produced by his working unit. The incumbent must optimize his team productivity through the pipeline processes, meanwhile, considering the online users’ needs. This Director will also have to carry out his tasks adequately by determining the project needs, implementing the effective tools and methods to maximize the data integration into the game engine, and providing all technical supports.
Responsibilities:
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Create tools, scripts and shaders that enhance production workflow and the art pipeline.
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Work collaboratively with the artists and engineers, understand the requirements and needs of the efficient workflows for production, and stay within the engine budgets.
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Work closely with the Art Director for the matching visual style of the game.
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Animate and create Motion Editing within a complex animation system.
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Provide knowledge and solutions for complex rigging, animation and shading pipeline problems.
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Define technical needs; carry out the design & artistic creative visions by validating the game features, challenging the interpretation and assessing the technical feasibilities.
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Acquire the best internal and external tools. Work with the programmers and project Technical Directors to enhance and facilitate the work by prototyping technological elements, adjusting existing tools, requesting new tools, validating the effectiveness of the tools provided with before they are deployed on the project.
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Standardize the best work methods and data structure (data and assets), ensure the validity and integrity of the data (meet standards and minimize debugging) by drafting pipeline documents, setting out common classification system, trainings, coaching and supervising processes users.
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Remain informed of new technical and technological developments and able to apply them on the project when needed.
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Able to balance the compromise between quality objectives and delivery constraints (time, costs, resources, etc.).
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Contribute to the selection of external tools (engine, plug-in, E-confluence, etc.), assess the existing tools, helping design and test new tools.
Requirements:
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5 years of relevant working experience in video game animation.
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Motion Builder working experience is a MUST.
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Able to work with the complex animation systems and state machines.
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Solid personal portfolio, good artistic sense in animation. Self-motivated.
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Team player, user focused. Good communication skills, functional English proficiency.
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Experienced in the entire game production circle, a problem solver.
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Extensive scripting knowledge with Python, Mel and/or Max script.
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Working knowledge of 3DSMAX, Maya, and/or other commercial 3D authoring packages.
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Able to keep contents and assets within the current projects art style and work within those limitations.
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A keen eye for motion and animation, capability for stress and changes.
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