Location: Vancouver, BC
Are you a Rigging Artist interested in joining the team in our Vancouver studio?! The Rigging Artist will work closely with a variety of departments including; R&D, Art, Modelling, Layout and Animation, to develop, implement and maintain character and prop assets for use in both Layout and Animation.
What you’ll get to do:
- Develop and maintain procedural rig components using a custom Python Rigging API. This includes:
- Following a brief to produce complex production ready rigs of a high standard
- Ensure that models are suitable for rigging and performance requirements
- Develop and prototype rigs for a broad range of creative and technical requirements
- Supporting rigs as they move through the animation pipeline
- Adhere to deadlines and communicate and troubleshoot technical issues with production
What you bring:
- 3+ years’ experience in feature animation, VFX, and/or animated television with a focus in Rigging
- Proficiency demonstrated through past project work and/or reel/portfolio
- Software development experience using Python, and relevant application API
- Experience with both mechanical and/or organic type rigs
- Production proven knowledge of rigging in either XSI or Maya
- Solid understanding of OOP in Python and learning/working to proprietary APIs
- Solid understanding and ability to apply foundation knowledge of pertinent mathematical disciplines (basics of linear algebra and trigonometry as required)
- Production proven knowledge in pipeline, process, tools and techniques with an understanding of industry standards, conventions, formats and common practice
- Proven ability to create and deliver production ready rigs
- C++ knowledge helpful but not mandatory
- Proven technical and visual skills, excellent attention to detail
- English written and oral communication skills and the ability to connect with a wide variety of personalities
- Ability to work solo as well as collaboratively within a team environment
- The ability to efficiently organise and prioritise work across multiple areas
- Excellence in problem solving and balancing quick turnaround with long term quality
- Ability to take direction and feedback and apply this to assets or rigs moving forward