Senior Creature Technical Director (Simulations) - ILM Vancouver

The Walt Disney Company • vancouver, Canada

Location vancouver, metro vancouver regional district
Job Type Full-time
Posted June 02, 2026

Role Description

This role is Hybrid: the employee will work 2-3 days onsite at a Company designated location and occasionally from home.

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 ...

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