Scene Prep & Character Finaling – Maya – Shane Acker’s 9

Position: Character Finaler/Maya Generalist
For: Shane Acker’s “9”
Reports to Department Supervisor
Position Description and Requirements:

Support the creative performance in a shot with the appropriate technical requirements as follows:

• Remove undesirable geometric penetrations, folds and creases from rigged assets.
• Ensure that rigged assets are in contact with one another and their environment appropriately.
• Ensure that rigged assets are prepared for FX simulations when required.
• Ensure proper continuity of motion for the calculation of motion blur.

Experience Required:

• Good artistic eye.
• Detail oriented.
• Good communication skills.
• Good organization skills.
• Technical aptitude.
• Previous production experience or exceptional abilities in CGI.
• Familiarity with skeletons.
• Experience in Modeling
• An understanding of the principles of animation.
• Experience with Maya Deformers, Constraints, and Blend Shapes.
• Thorough knowledge of Maya’s Graph Editor and connection editors (Hypergraph, Hypershade..)
• Must be able to work in a collaborative environment, taking direction from the Sequence lead(s), Supervisor and feedback from Directors(s) as necessary.
• Bonus: Ability to script in Mel and/or Python to fix recurring issues.
• Bonus: Rendering experience with stand-alone packages (Mental Ray, Renderman etc…)

contact me at LanceLeFort’at’hotmail.com or Lance.LeFort’at’starz.com