Creature Cloth and Hair Td

3 days ago

Wellington City, New Zealand Weta Digital Full time

A Creature Cloth and Hair Technical Director is responsible for the set-up and simulation of dynamic elements that are worn by, attached to, or interacted with by digital characters and assets. This includes clothing, hair, fur, feathers, as well as props like flags, ropes and boat sails to name a few.

Working within the Creatures department, the Creature Cloth TD works especially closely with the creature riggers as well as the modeling and animation departments to ensure all cloth functions properly across the pipeline as well as ensuring assets from other departments work within the cloth pipeline. This is a highly technical role that requires scripting and previous cloth experience.

The Creature Cloth TD must have the technical knowledge to troubleshoot a variety of issues across the pipeline. While creation and writing of new tools is not required, debugging and scripting abilities are a must.

**Role requirements**
- 3 years Creature TD or Rigging experience
- Production experience with both hair/fur simulation setup and shot work
- Maya nCloth power user
- A strong understanding of CG production workflow and how cloth assets work within the pipeline
- An eye for dynamic performance to achieve realistic results
- Mel and Python scripting

**Desirable Additional Skills**
- Knowledge and experience with other cloth and hair solvers
- Marvelous Designer experience a plus

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.

Location: Wellington, New Zealand

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