Description
CHARACTER
TECHNICAL ARTIST (RIGGING)
Deck Nine
Games currently has an opening for a Character Technical Artist to join our
amazing art team. If you love collaborating with artists and animators to
create expressive, quirky and memorable characters that fans fall in love with
we’d love to talk with you.
You will work
in close collaboration with animators, modelers, and the artistic and technical
animation director in order to produce high-quality rigging and skinning with
emphasis on facial rigging. The role will require you to jump into the
unknown and solve new problems, exercising your ability to think creatively to
resolve technical and artistic challenges and limitations. The ideal candidate
is passionate about games and has 2 years’ minimum experience that covers a
complete game development cycle.
Please apply through our website: https://deckninegames.com/careers/
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Must include a link to a portfolio of your work
• 2 years’ minimum experience in technical art or other relevant
experience
• Worked on at least 1 game within the technical art discipline
• Bachelor’s degree in art, design, technical discipline or other
relevant training
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Establish and maintain rigging pipelines and standards between
Maya and Unreal Engine
• Carry out the rigging and skinning of characters and props to meet
the needs of project animators, with a particular focus on facial rigging for
real-time game assets
• Propose and implement tools to produce the best possible results
and incorporate them seamlessly into the existing pipeline
• Work closely with the animation team to implement control rigs to
improve and simplify their workflow
• Liaise with Art, Animation, Mocap, Tech and Production
• Export from Maya and set up game characters in the engine,
ensuring the final result meets the artistic standards of the project
• Support the Art Team with their technical needs, find and develop
solutions to content creation pipeline issues
SKILLS
AND KNOWLEDGE:
• Experience creating and maintaining a rigging pipeline with an
emphasis on facial rigging and implementation of expressive blendshapes
• In-depth knowledge of Maya
• Python, Scripting for Maya tools
BONUS:
• Knowledge of MGear
• Experience working with Mocap data
• Knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as ZScript,
Javascript, C++
• Basic knowledge of Vicon Shogun, Photoshop, Substance Painter
and/or Zbrush
• Animation Experience
• Interest and understanding of human anatomy
Benefits
• Competitive salary depending on experience
• Generous vacation time and paid parental leave
• Health insurance for you and your family at a low
cost to you
• Dental and Vision insurance for you and your
family at NO cost to you
• Life and Disability benefits at NO cost to you
• Optional Flexible Spending Account (including
Healthcare and Limited Purpose), Dependent Care Account, and Health Savings
Account available
• Optional Supplemental Health and Life Insurance
• 401(k) Plan with an Employer Match
• Growth opportunities for your career
Salary
Range: DOE
About Deck Nine
Here at Deck Nine
Games our passion is storytelling games. We are an independent game developer
dedicated to crafting AAA interactive story games that inspire, transform, and
entertain players. In 2021 we released Life is Strange True Colors, which went
on to win multiple awards for storytelling and visuals, including best
storytelling for 2021 and a VGA for Games for Impact. Recently we announced
that we are developing a game for the hit sci-fi Amazon series, The Expanse.
Our prior titles have won multiple awards, including Game of the Year and
nominations for VGA and BAFTA awards. The studio is 100+ amazing people both
located in our headquarters in sunny Westminster, Colorado and spread
throughout the world permanently remote.
As the crafters
of stories that encompass the full breadth of life’s experiences, Deck Nine is
committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and multicultural team in which
people from all walks of life feel inspired to do their best work. We are proud
to be an equal opportunity employer and believe deeply in the creativity and
strength built from diversity of race, religion, disability, gender, gender
identity and expression, sexual orientation, nationality, and the many other
qualities that make us different.
If this sounds
appealing to you, please apply now!