Rigging Artist

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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.

Responsibiities

• Has strong experience in facial deformation but also experience in body rigging.
• Has strong experience sculpting expressions.
• 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. 
• Is 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 with current artistic methodologies and technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company in the development of a stronger creative and technical environment. 
• Delivers 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 in using Maya in a production environment. 
• Experience with sculpting tools in Body, Face and Shot-Finaling. 
• 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. 
• Knowledge of artistic modeling and anatomy tools is a plus. 
• High English level. 
• Spanish desirable.  #Animation #LI-Hybrid
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