Rigging Animation Technical Artist

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Rigging Animation Technical Artist for remote work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Setup, rig, animate and maintain bone-driven facial features for characters in Maya that are runtime compatible
• Collaborate with the character modeling team to ensure facial rigging is compatible with character models and create rigs that satisfy animation and game engine requirements
• Optimize facial rigs for performance and efficiency in-game

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as a Technical Artist-Rigger or Technical Animator role for AAA game development, directly supporting the production with rigging, scripting & tool development
• Strong experience in rigging and animating facial features using procedural rigging systems such as AdvancedSkeleton5 and mGear in Maya
• Strong understanding of anatomy, kinematics, deformation and facial expressions
• Excellent working knowledge of scripting - Maya Python/PyMEL, C++ API, and PySide/PyQt GUI design experience
• Extensive experience with integration of performance capture animation for both body & face