Technical Artist Support – Madrid I

<div>Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.</div> <div> </div> <div>While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working, Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the world’s most collaborative art form can achieve, and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio that’s doing something different.</div> <div>For information on Skydance’s privacy practices, see the Skydance EU/UK Personnel Privacy Notice located at <a href="https://skydance.com/privacy-personnel" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://skydance.com/privacy-personnel/</a>.</div> <div>—</div> <div> <p style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm;font-size: 9pt;font-family: Arial, sans-serif">As a Technical Artist you will be responsible for helping its assigned departments to solve technical issues.</p> </p></div> <div> <strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <div class="posting-requirements plain-list" data-qa="posting-requirements"> <div> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-top: 0px"> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 0.4px">Give technical support to the assigned departments.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 0.4px">Debug issues with key inputs & outputs eg. Farm errors, HDAs, internal tools, publishing processes</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 0.4px">Optimize department procedures.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 0.4px">Strong knowledge of 2-3 departments.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 0.4px">Assist supervisor is documenting the technical workflows.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 0.4px">Attend technical meetings to as requested, to keep trained and updated in the new studio/department tools, pipelines, workflows, etc.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 0.4px">Keeps up on current artistic methodologies and on technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company in the development of a stronger creative and technical environment.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">Collaborates with other team members, when necessary.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">Follows the department supervisor and leads’ instruction.</li> </ul> <div style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <strong>Requirements</strong></p> <div class="posting-requirements plain-list" data-qa="posting-requirements"> <div> <p style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black"> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm;margin-top: 0px"> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">3-5 years in VFX or animation industries.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">1+ years in the animation industry is desirable.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">Strong artistic or/and technical aptitude related to 3D animation is a must.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">Some expertise in programming with Python</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">Some Knowledge of USD</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">Knowledge of some 3D animation area (Modeling, Surfacing, Animation, Lighting).</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">Experience in any 3D animation Software (Maya, Max, or Houdini).</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">Medium-High English level desirable.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: black;text-indent: 4.8px">Spanish desirable</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div>#Animation</div> <div>Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive, and animation divisions.</div> <div>Recruitment Fraud Alert</div> <div>It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activity by individuals impersonating our Talent Acquisition team. Skydance will only contact you from an official “@skydance.com” email address. If you suspect that you are being contacted by an unauthorized person or believe that the correspondence you have received is suspicious, please do not click on any links or attachments in such emails and submit any questions or concerns to our information security team at <a href="https://skydance.com/report-suspected-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://skydance.com/report-suspected-fraud/</a>.</div>

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