Senior Crowds Technical Artist

As a Senior Crowds Technical Artist, you will assist the Crowds Supervisor with technical and creative approaches to an assigned sequence, creating master crowd rigs and deploying them to the team of crowd artists for production shots.

Responsibilities

• Sets up crowd assets and HDAs within the existing Houdini pipeline and tests new procedures and workflows under the artistic supervision of the Crowds Lead and Supervisor.
• Creates a range of crowd agents (bipeds/quadrupeds and vehicles) for efficient simulation.
• Applies and executes crowd behaviors on shots with the highest quality standards.
• Has strong technical problem‑solving skills including the ability to troubleshoot pipeline issues and the ability to resolve shot‑specific technical challenges independently.
• Keeps up on current artistic methodologies and on technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the ...