Senior Creature Technical Director (Simulations) - Expression of Interest - ILM Vancouver

Industrial Light & Magic • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Posted June 21, 2026

Location Vancouver, British Columbia
Job Type Full-time
Category Art and Design Workers
Posted June 21, 2026

Job Summary:

Position Summary

Industrial Light & Magic (Vancouver) Inc., located in Vancouver, BC, the Senior Creature Technical Director is responsible for setting up and running flesh-surface, hair, rigid, crowd, and cloth simulations in Houdini and proprietary tools as well as rigging and enveloping hero to background creature, vehicles and props in Maya. The Senior Creature Technical Director is able to wrangle creature pipeline issues proficiently under the direction and support of their supervisors.

What You’ll Do

  • Set up and run advanced cloth, hair, rigid body, crowd, muscle simulations

  • Troubleshoot creature CFX and pipeline issues for artists in other disciplines

  • Mentor entry level artists

  • Script utilities/tools/plug-ins in Maya

  • Creature rigging and enveloping in Maya

  • Sufficient knowledge of CFX techniques to optimize...

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