About

• Fin Design + Effects is currently looking for a Render Wrangler to cover the night time shift. This is a great opportunity to join a distinguished team of animation and VFX artists who have produced a great variety of incredible work including Elvis, Thor: Love and Thunder, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Shang Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings, Lost in Space, and I Am Mother.

• Roles & Responsibilities
• Efficiently manage overnight resources based on a defined priority system.
• Use the Render Target Page on Shotgrid/Flow and translate that data to a Regex for Deadline

Optimising farm efficiency with an understanding of the limitations of the hardware infrastructure

• GPU hardwares (VRAM, A40/L4)
• CPU hardwares (RAM, core)
• Parallel and concurrent tasks
• Monitor farm condition and follow proper issue escalation procedures
• Pattern recognition for broader scale issues such as network bottleneck and license failure
• Understand and distill render logs to facilitate triage and manage render farm jobs that fall outside of expected render times.
• E.g. excessive USD render times, excessive hardware usage that cause blockage on other shows running for on-time delivery
• Understand the purpose of each farm job and how it relates to VFX workflows (FX, Lighting, Compositing, Turntable, Proxy, Mipmapping, Working plates, layout/animation…)
• Report to Artists and Producers when overnight jobs will not be completed within the requested time.
• Communicate with I.T. and R&D to understand pipeline changes that may impact the health of the render farm.
• Core skills
• A sense of urgency and is good at crisis management
• Basic understanding of coding language (python)
• Previous experience operating task queueing systems (e.g. from a computer lab)