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About the Role
Serve as the bridge between creative departments (Lighting, Surfacing, FX) and our render infrastructure. Audit, profile, and optimize high-density production scenes to maximize image quality while minimizing compute cost. Diagnose complex frame failures, fine-tune samplings, and collaborate with technical leads and creatives to balance production quality and render efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Inspect high-density production scenes to verify geometry, textures, shading networks, and scene graph traversal efficiency before farm dispatch.
- Serve as the frontline defense for diagnosing and resolving complex render failures across Surfacing, FX, and Lighting.
- Analyze shot setups and adjust sampling, ray depths, and light thresholds tailored to specific asset, sets and sequences, to achieve target frame budgets.
- Profile scenes for CPU resource utilization, I/O bandwidth, and memory consumption.
- Build, refine, and maintain internal department tools and scripts using Python and Lua to streamline render pass setups, custom AOVs, secondary outputs, and automated denoising workflows.
- Leverage a deep understanding of light transport, sampling distributions, and ray-tracing algorithms to write or modify custom shaders and manipulate ray behavior for specialized production needs.
Requirements
- 6 years of experience in feature animation or visual effects acting as a Render TD, Lighting TD, or Pipeline TD.
- Deep operational knowledge of modern production ray-tracers (e.g. Renderman, Arnold or Karma).
- Proficiency in DCC platforms including Katana and Nuke.
- Strong familiarity with scene graph structures.
- Hands-on experience reading render logs, identifying memory leaks/spikes, or debuggers.
- Solid foundation in computer graphics principles—including Monte Carlo sampling, BVH acceleration, color management (ACES/OCIO), and system resource limits (RAM/VRAM/IOPS).
Skills
- Python
- Lua
- OSL
- C++
- Pixar Tractor
- Computer Science
- Computer Graphics
- Physics
- Mathematics
Location
- Alexandria
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 6 years
Education Level
- Computer Science
- Computer Graphics
- Physics
- Mathematics
Benefits
- Industry leading studio space
- Breakfast served daily
- Cake days
- Movie nights
- Wrap parties
- Culture club
- Paws for a Cause fundraising arm
- Flexible work from home days
- Training and support opportunities
- Mental health resources
- Free counselling via Employee Assistance Provider
- Holistic wellbeing support
- Discounted health insurance
- Financial wellbeing initiatives
- Access to staff qualified in Mental Health First Aid
About the Company
- Flying Bark Productions is a renowned independent producer of family-focused animation entertainment.
- For over 50 years, our 2D and 3D production facility has created award-winning feature films and TV series.
- We work on exciting projects such as Avatar: The Last Airbender feature film, Netflix's Ghostbusters animated series and Stranger Things animated series, as well as our production Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan.
Equal Opportunity
- Flying Bark Productions is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.