Rigging Senior Artist

Job Description

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As a Senior Rigger you will work closely with the Rigging Supervisor and a variety of departments including; R&D, Art, Modelling, Layout and Animation, to develop, implement, maintain and support character and prop deformation rigs for use in Crowds, Layout and Animation.

Responsibilities
• Develops and maintains procedural rig components with a specific focus on deformation, using custom tools.
• Follows a brief to produce complex production ready rig deformations.
• Works with Animators to aid with deformation rigs to provide a broad range of motion.
• Supports rigs as they move through the pipeline and provides additional deformation fixes as needed.
• Responsible for building body, facial and mechanical rig systems to be used by other departments, such as Crowds, Animation and Layout.
• Troubleshoots and fixes rig issues
• Collects artistic feedback and fine tunes rig behavior.
• Works within the pipeline and rigging standards.
• Keeps up on current artistic methodologies and on technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company in the development of a stronger creative and technical environment.
• Deliver on time following Production quality standards.
• Prototype, develops and implements new techniques and processes to solve unique and technical character production challenges.
• Works together with the team providing them with support, guidance and instruction in areas that contribute towards their artistic and professional growth.
• Follows the Supervisor's and Lead's guidance
Requirements
• 5+ years in VFX or animation industries.
• 3+ years in the animation industry.
• Strong artistic and technical rigging skills.
• Proficiency within a character pipeline.
• Proficiency using Maya in a production environment.
• Experience with sculpting tools in Body, Face and Shot-Finaling.
• Knowledge of artistic modeling and anatomy tools is a plus.
• Solid understanding of the principles of animation.
• Extensive anatomical knowledge of facial muscles and their kinematics functions.
• Advanced Python scripting follows coding standards including Qt Interfaces and UX.
• Desirable C/C++ developing knowledge
• High English level.
• Spanish desirable.
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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r054pe-18-218-135-221-42 in your application.