Crowds/Houdini Intern (AI)

Location: Vancouver, Canada; onsite at the Vancouver studio

Pay rate: 25 CAD per hour for this role in California and Florida

Company

Walt Disney Animation Studios develops animated films and the technology, production workflows, and creative tools behind them.

What you will do

• Develop procedural animation tools to populate animated projects with crowds.
• Apply technical and creative skills across the process from initial design to final rendering.
• Work with particle systems, crowds systems, agent and brain design, simulation, and behavior.
• Participate in a 12-week program focused on crowds art, studio culture, and CG production.
• Learn under the mentorship of crowds artists and collaborate in a production environment.

Requirements

• Must be eligible to work in Canada.
• Must be at least 18 years old and enrolled in a post-high-school educational program, returning for at least one semester after the internship.
• Must be fully available for the 12-week assignment from approximately February through April 2027.
• Less than five years of animation industry experience, or recent graduation with a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Maya or Houdini, Linux or Unix, Python, CG animation/VFX/game production pipelines, and rigging or animation techniques.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills, including the ability to take direction.

Nice to have

• Experience with object-oriented programming such as C++.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on projects guided by artists, technologists, and production leaders.
• Opportunities to connect with industry mentors and develop animation skills.
• Collaborative studio and production environment.
• Selected medical, financial, and other benefits may be included in the compensation package.