Senior Rigger | United States & Canada | Fully Remote

Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc

12d•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for an ambitious Senior Rigger to join our team. You will assume responsibility for the skinning and rigging of our characters. You will be scripting tools to help you and other Technical Artist and Artists to achieve various creative challenges in more efficient ways. You will work with the Art Director and Animators to understand and meet movement expectations of character designs. You will work in Unreal Engine, working on Rigid Bodies, UE Control Rig. You will be maintaining Character content to be functional both in Maya and Unreal.

Requirements

Excellent skill in rigging in Maya
Experience in dynamics and rigging in Unreal engine.
Rigs that are solid and effective for animators and fast iterations when needed.
Scripting experience to write rigging tools, skinning tools and more.
Researching and developing new techniques, approaches and solutions as required.
Talented team player and problem solver

Responsibilities

Rigging and skinning of a wide variety of characters using existing tools and drive the development of new tools to aid and improve runtime deformations.
Work on RBF runtime deformers, runtime Physics and other simulated assets
Your rigs will allow animators to deliver high-quality keyframe animation uncompromised by limitations of technical processes.
Defining workflows and pipelines in consultation with your colleagues and developing and improving in-house tools as needed while remaining aware of the impact of your decisions on other disciplines.
Researching and developing new techniques, approaches and solutions as required.
Keeping pipelines simple and effective.