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Render Wrangler

Spire Animation Studios, Inc.

Render Wrangler

Burbank, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    OUR STUDIO

    At Spire Animation Studios, we empower world-class and diverse creative and technical talent from

    all mediums to entertain global audiences through animated feature films with heartfelt storytelling,

    captivating worlds, and inspiring characters.

    Key to our vision is developing a real-time enabled pipeline that brings intimacy back to the animation

    process while pushing the creative envelope. Our team has worked on many of the earliest and most

    successful 3D animated films, and we have experienced firsthand the exponential increase in visual

    complexity and crew sizes as narrative appetite and audience expectations have grown. GPU

    accelerated rendering and game engines unlock new workflows that can upend long held

    assumptions underpinning the assembly line approach of legacy.

    THE JOB

    The Render Wrangler is part of a 24/7 team that supports Spire Animation’s rendering pipeline and

    helps improve the efficiency of the rendering process. The Render Wrangler touches all aspects of

    technical production and focuses on resolving daily issues as well as working with artists and

    supervisors to help optimize the render workflows. In this role, you will have broad interaction with

    production artists from effects, animation, lighting, layout and modeling departments as well as

    technical directors and engineering teams.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    ● Monitor, manage and maintain the render farm to function at its maximum capability and

    bandwidth.

    ● Monitor, manage, and audit renders for daily deliveries.

    ● Maintain and track rendering priorities.

    ● Plan and communicate effectively in regards to resource allocations in accordance with the needs

    of the projects and the production team.

    ● Help and assist the artists with support requests.

    ● Monitor infrastructure (servers) and identify problems.

    ● Manage studio emergency calls outside of regular hours.

    ● With the help of the R&D team, help to develop tools to support production.

    REQUIREMENTS

    ● High proficiency working with Linux, Python, tcsh, and bash.

    ● System administration and DevOps tasks for Windows and Linux environments.

    ● Ability to prioritize work, perform multiple tasks, and work under time constraints.

    ● Self-driven, proactive, reliable.

    ● Strong sense of urgency.

    ● Excellent communication skills in English.

    ● Ability to adapt and learn new skills as required.

    ● Ability to work independently and within a team.

    ● Enjoy working in a fast-paced atmosphere.

    ● Knowledge of queuing systems, scheduling algorithms, SQL (MySQL or similar DB concepts and

    usage etc.), Qube/Muster/Tractor/Deadline/OpenCue, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, Arnold, and other

    VFX industry tools is a plus.