Senior Creatures Technical Director

3 days ago


Wellington City, New Zealand Weta Digital Full time

A Senior Creature TD is responsible for building, rigging and simulating the internal anatomy of a creature, in order to drive the final deformation of the skin. Also responsible for defining animation controls and rigging puppets to be used by animation and other departments.

Applicants should be experienced and passionate about building photo-realistic creatures. They should have broad anatomical knowledge and be well versed in creation, rigging and simulation of skeletons, muscles, and skin.

Senior Creature TDs work closely with various departments, especially Modelling, Animation, and Shots and collaborate with the Creature Cloth/Hair TDs to deliver dynamic, realistic creatures. Strong scripting and debugging skills are a must.

**Role Requirements**:

- 5 years or more as a fulltime Senior Creature TD on feature films
- Experience with skinning and deformation of photo realistic characters and/or creatures
- Poweruser in Maya
- Poweruser in Python scripting
- Linux experience
- Experience in Cloth and Hair simulation a plus
- Python, Perl, and C++ knowledge a plus.
- Must be able to work well in a team environment

Being able to communicate effectively, work collaboratively and give and receive constructive feedback will be critical to your success in this role. You’ll have excellent time keeping skills and strive to maintain a resilient and constructive workspace within your team.

At Wētā FX we celebrate our diversity and believe in creating an environment where all our crew feel welcomed, respected, supported and appreciated. We define ourselves by the quality of our work, and we’re striving to build a workplace experience that’s second to none. Here at Wētā FX we value open minds and encourage our crew to be themselves.

We are pleased to advise that there are now a number of specific roles for which we are seeking exemptions to permit non-resident crew to enter, live & work in New Zealand. However, Successful applicants relocating from outside New Zealand could expect to initially carry out their duties on a remote basis where possible.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Location: Wellington, New Zealand



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