Directeur.trice Technique des effets de foule | Crowd TD

The multi-Oscar-winning creative Film & Episodic studio, at Framestore has worked with some of the greatest storytellers in film today. Collaborating with directors and producers across the complete filmmaking process to help design, plan and create beautiful images, we focus on finding innovative creative solutions to support their vision and set new standards for visual effects in cinema.

Framestore combines talent and technology to bring life to everything we create. Driven by creativity and inspired by the future, we set out every day to reframe the possible.

About the role

Crowd Technical Directors are responsible for creating the motion of crowds, including the animating and simulating of tens of thousands of characters for high end visual effects films.

What you’ll do:

• Creating simulations of crowd characters as briefed by the Visual Effects/CG Supervisor or Lead

• Developing locomotion, motion and triggering behaviours to ensure a variety of looks can be achieved

• Utilising crowd software (both proprietary and off-the-shelf) to deliver to the highest possible standards

• Liaising with other departments involved in the crowd pipeline including Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Motion Capture and Lighting

• Involvement in developing crowd tools and techniques

• Staying on schedule and meeting set deadlines while maintaining the highest levels of quality

• Ongoing communication with Production and Leads regarding schedules and deadlines