Blue Zoo Animation London - Permanent Lead Maya Pipeline TD

We are seeking a skilled & experienced Technical Maya TD to join our vibrant multi-BAFTA winning London studio, to lead & maintain an effective and efficient workflow for our studio’s ambitious productions.

Responsibilities
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[li]Leading development on our pipeline workflow & integration tools
[/li][li]Maintaining & developing asset management & publishing tools
[/li][li]Liaising with studio departments for workflow problems and requests
[/li][li]Manage requests from departments and advise on workflows, creating your own tools and helping other TDs with making and using them
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Required Skills
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[li]In depth technical knowledge of Autodesk Maya
[/li][li]Python and Maya Python
[/li][li]fTrack or similar asset management system
[/li][li]PySide or Qt
[/li][li]Animation Pipeline via Alembic
[/li][li]SQL
[/li][li]Render Farm Software (Royal Render or similar)
[/li][li]Maya Deployment with global deployment and update of Plugins and Env Vars
[/li][li]git / gitHub
[/li][li]Ability to manage personal workload as-well as advising and liaising with other members of the TD team
[/li][li]Confident problem solver
[/li][li]Ability to ’ bridge ’ knowledge gaps between departments
[/li][li]Proactive approach to researching & adopting new tools
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Preferrable Skills
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[li]Rounded knowledge of all departments requirements and workflow from rigging / animation / rendering within Maya.
[/li][li]C++ compiling experience, (for extension / plugin release building)
[/li][li]Tool writing for Nuke and Maya
[/li][li]General TD debugging skills
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Required Experience
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[li]Minimum 2-5 Years experience of Maya pipeline development in a production studio.
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Duration: Permanent
Start date: August 2015

Please apply via out website: https://jobs.blue-zoo.co.uk/vacancy/details/12/lead-pipeline-td/