Brown Bag Films, Dublin Studio is currently looking for our next Character Department Technical Director!

Who are we?

- One of the top-performing animation studios operating worldwide
- Creators of well-loved cartoons for kids and grownups in a fast-paced & energised environment
- Award-winning dog lovers, artists, charity activists, amateur boxers (!), tech gurus, and extraordinary teammates
- Pencil wielding, spreadsheet loving, people-focused do-ers who are passioned about their work
- Driven, engaged, proactive, collaborative & conscious of our individual impact as part of the whole

About the role:

As a Character Department TD, you will develop and maintain tools that ensure the current and future capabilities of the designated department. Your day will include crafting bespoke rigs that add to the rig builder library, rigging, modeling tools to support the work of the character department, and producing documentation describing the functionality and workflow for tools.

Responsibilities will include:

- Developing tools for use by the riggers and character modelers that facilitate workflow
- Documenting the tool functions and workflows, as well as supporting the rollout and feedback cycles for in-house and overseas studios
- Creating new modules for the rig builder to support archetype and bespoke assets
- Collaborating with pipeline on character workflow and integration of tools
- Proactively problem solving; crafting the IT and pipeline tickets to address any technical problems in relation to the tools and workflows for the department
- Collaborating with production on project achievements that relate to the closing out of tools and dictate development cycles
- Ensuring that tools/workflows are user-friendly and efficient.

Knowledge, skills, and experience:

- Good knowledge of the pipeline of CG and a strong sense of anatomy as practical for rigging
- Thorough understanding of the requirements of motion control and deformation for animation
- Experience in the pipeline and in scripting (Python) for tool development, as well as groundbreaking problem-solving skills
- Shown experience of developing tools successfully used in production
- Highly proficient in Maya and its rigging toolset, including an excellent shown understanding of developing Maya tools
- Extensive & broad experience working as a character rigger, supporting tools to in-house and external teams, and experience with asset tracking systems is desirable

Please submit your latest portfolio/reel and highlight all equivalent experience in your Cover letter.

This is a full-time, in-house role, and the successful candidate will be required to relocate to the Dublin studio.

Brown Bag Films is an equal opportunities employer that takes diversity and inclusion seriously. As a company, we deliver high-quality kids' content, and we seek to have diverse characters so that all our audience feels represented. We also want the same for our own workforce, and Brown Bag Films is committed to looking for all kinds of talent to build a diverse workforce in which all social groups are represented.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions. We'd love to hear from you to request an accommodation.