Senior Rigger

Description

Senior Rigger

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Create and develop fast elegant character rigs using Maya and proprietary tools.
• Work with modeling and animation departments to facilitate articulate realistic appealing characters.
• Integration of characters and rigs into the production pipeline.
• Create User Interfaces and tools to assist animators.
• Work in partnership with R&D programmers, Animators, and Lighting TDs to ensure shots are delivered to the very highest standard.
• Provide support to character rigs throughout production.
• Develop long term strategies to automate character production.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years work experience in feature film/broadcast VFX production
• Solid knowledge of rigging systems
• Comprehensive knowledge of Maya.
• Provide reel demonstrating both control systems and complex deformations
• Solid time and project management skills.
• Accessibility and willingness to collaborate is a must.
• Thorough understanding of techniques and technologies relating to character rigging and animation comprehension of core principles relating to rigging
• Excellent understanding of anatomy, structure, dynamics and character motion
• Good understanding of the entire visual effects process, from shooting to modeling to texturing, animation and rendering
• MEL and Python programming essential
• Maya API C++ programming also a plus