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We are a virtual creative studio based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2004, Evil Eye Pictures is a collaborative virtual studio bringing together some of the best content creators, innovators and engineers from around the globe.  The team is focused on creating immersive, compelling visuals and experiences for the evolving world of real-time, multiplatform entertainment.

Evil Eye was founded by artists to work on high-profile, special projects while maintaining an emphasis on people and a positive, fun work culture.

  • Evil Eye Pictures is looking for an accomplished Character TD for an innovative project featuring high fidelity humans in Unreal Engine 5. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years professional experience in film, television and/or games, and a thorough understanding of animation pipelines and content creation in Unreal. A high level of technical knowledge combined with strong creative and visual instincts is critical.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Work with digital scan data (reduction, retopo, etc)

    • Create stylized and realistic rigs with proper deformation and weighting

    • Create character assets including control rigs in Unreal Editor

    • Create character blend shape and character corrective shape assets

    • Author animation blueprints in Unreal Editor

    • Create range of motion assets for testing character rigs

    • Create bespoke character models

    • Collaborate closely with engineers, designing and implementing tools / workflows in Unreal Engine

    What we’re looking for:

    • 5+ years of working experience on a 5+ person team working with Unreal Engine in a professional environment

    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience communicating with vendors and clients

    • Proven experience creating realistic and compelling characters for games / film

    • Experience with both forward and reverse kinematics rigging

    • Expertise using DCCs such as Maya or Blender for character creation

    • Experience creating custom tools for both Unreal Editor and DCC packages

    • Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative development

    • Flexibility to explore other tasks such as cloth simulation and physics, UI design and implementation, etc.


    Good to have: 

    • Experience with Marvelous Designer or some other form of clothing creation tool

    • Experience with Python, Mel, or C++ is a plus

    • Understanding of PBR rendering and texture creation

    • Knowledge of procedural modeling and rigging using Houdini, Blender, etc.

    • Experience with MetaHuman or other high fidelity CG humans

    • Experience using Substance:

      • Painter 

      • Designer

      • Modeler


    This is a full time position. This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.

    For more information about Evil Eye check out:

    https://www.evileyepictures.com


    CA Pay Transparency Information:

    The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

    Base Pay Range $100k - $140k

  • Evil Eye Pictures is looking for a full-time programmer to contribute to the crucial tooling and pipeline systems needed for a new innovative project in Unreal Engine 5. The ideal candidate has some experience with blueprinting in Unreal Engine, can create custom blueprint nodes in C++,  and is proficient in writing python scripts to automate repetitive and error-prone tasks.


    This position is an excellent opportunity to learn how a new innovative Unreal project is created from the ground up, with opportunities to collaborate with many talented senior artists, TDs, and programmers. With the candidate’s enthusiastic collaboration, we aim to provide an environment for creating a broad foundational understanding of the realtime pipeline and workflow in Unreal Engine.


    Key Responsibilities:

    • Excellent troubleshooting skills

      • First line of support for issues found by non-technical staff

      • Help triage issues and test fixes

      • Help design and implement tests to catch future issues

    • Create custom tools for Unreal Engine to support needs of artists and TDs

    • Maintain & monitor automated build system for Unreal projects

    What we’re looking for:

    • 3+ years working experience in Unreal Editor

    • Good understanding of C++ and Python

    • Excellent communication skills

      • Keep notes of what could be better

      • Create & improve documentation

      • Share knowledge within the team to improve our productivity

    • Working knowledge of the Unreal build systems

      • Building editor from source

      • Creating packaged builds

    • Working knowledge of Perforce

    • Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative development


    Good to have: 

    • Experience creating Utility Blueprints / Widgets in Unreal Editor

    • Experience debugging Unreal Engine using Visual Studio

    • Experience inspecting crash and profiling reports

    • Experience with automated build and test systems

    • Experience writing python scripts for DCCs like Maya, Blender, etc

    • Working knowledge of git / GitHub

    • Desire to improve quality of life for fellow developers and teammates


    This is a full time position. This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.

    For more information about Evil Eye check out:

    https://www.evileyepictures.com


    CA Pay Transparency Information:

    The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

    Base Pay Range $130k - $170k

  • Evil Eye Pictures is looking for an Associate Unreal TD. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting teams and delivering projects in games, film, TV, or virtual production. A thorough understanding of visual effects workflows is a must. 

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Assist artists, leads, and supervisors with rendering linear content for game cinematics from Unreal Engine

    • Flag technical hurdles that prohibit the on-time delivery of work, suggesting creative and technical fixes including performance optimization or alternative work methodologies

    • Be an early adopter of new versions of Unreal Engine; testing features, vetting stability, and making recommendations for the wider team

    • Collaborate with tech art and pipeline in the creation of processes and tools related to the rendering of Unreal content

    • Oversight and monitoring of Deadline render queue and render farm machines; collaborating with pipeline and IT to troubleshoot and debug issues 

    Requirements:

    • Knowledge of Unreal Engine including an understanding of Sequencer, Blueprints, Movie Render Queue/Movie Render Graph, Lumen, and console variables

    • Thorough understanding of visual effects pipelines and techniques

    • Experience working with Deadline or similar render queue software

    • Detail-oriented both in work processes and ability to QC work

    • Understanding of optimization and performance profiling

    • Excellent ability to improvise and problem-solve

    • Ability to work independently, as well as take direction in a fast-paced environment

    • Knowledge of procedural workflows for efficiencies in linear content creation

     Good to Have:

    • Experience with Maya, Houdini, Blender or equivalent DCC is a plus

    • Knowledge of an asset manager such as Shotgrid is a plus

    • Computer science or programming background

    This is a full-time position.  This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.

    For more information about Evil Eye check out:

    https://www.evileyepictures.com


    The     studio operates on West Coast hours, this role may have a slight offset to accommodate production schedules.


    CA Pay Transparency Information:

    The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

    Base Pay Range $50k - $90k