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Bardel is a 200+ person animation studio in Vancouver running a production pipeline centered on Houdini, Maya, RenderMan, and ShotGrid—the industry standard for VFX and animation workflows. Active hiring across design (7 roles), animation, ops, and engineering signals ramping production capacity. The pain-point mix (pipeline bottlenecks, render performance, on-time delivery, lighting asset stability) reflects the operational complexity of coordinating multi-discipline teams through render-heavy workflows at broadcast and feature scale.
Tech Stack 28 technologies
Core StackPython Puppet Ansible Kubernetes Rippling Active Directory Houdini Maya Marvelous Designer ShotGrid RenderMan MEL Autodesk Maya Renderman UNIX Blender VMware vSphere VMware Horizon VMware vCenter PowerShell Bash Shotgun Shotgrid Photoshop ZBrush macOS Microsoft Entra
What Bardel Entertainment Is Building
◆Challenges
- Technical production challenges
- Workflow bottlenecks
- Pipeline bottlenecks
- On-time delivery of final files
- Balancing artistic requirements with budget constraints
- Meeting schedule and budget
- Budget and time constraints
- Maintaining lighting pipeline stability
- Optimizing render performance
- Debugging lighting asset issues
▲Active Projects
- Crowd simulation pipeline
- Crowd tool development
- Feature animation stereoscopic conversion
- Final conversion window
- Animation project
- Tv featurette
- Lighting pipeline development
- Workflow improvement initiative
- 3d animated feature lighting pipeline
- Research new lighting tools
Hiring Activity
10 roles · 10 in 30d
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Lighting Lead
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