A Technical Director or also know as TD is a very common job withing the animation a visual effects companies, different companies have different meaning of a TD job description is but over all a TD is someone that can be involved in allot of things throughout the animation pipeline they have to be very confident sensible and have a good eye to spot problems and solve them. They will have a wide knowledge into all the aspects of animating and all the pipeline TD will be involved on the production of an animation from early stages doing modelling, rendering, texturing and reggging if a TD does not specify what kind of TD they are they are often more involved in lighting and rendering. TD are often not very not programmer only a few are but they are because that will fall into the modelers but even so they should have knowledge of the programs being used within the company to help solve problems.
Their is not specific area to study to became a TD all areas can lead you their you can start anywhere within a company and became a TD its just a case of learning and understanding of how the pipeline and the company works.
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