Rigging Lead Artist
hace 2 semanas
We are seeking an experienced and skilled Rigging Lead Artist to join our team at Skydance. As a key member of our animation department, you will be responsible for designing, creating, and maintaining highly accurate and efficient rigs for high-end feature animation films.
Key Responsibilities- Develop and maintain procedural rig components with a focus on deformation, using custom tools.
- Follow a brief to produce complex production-ready rig deformations.
- Work with animators to aid with deformation rigs and provide a broad range of motion.
- Support rigs as they move through the pipeline and provide additional deformation fixes as needed.
- Collaborate with directors, character designers, modelers, and animators to define and create the best deformation or animation rigs for a wide range of character styles and art directions.
- Lead the team, providing support, guidance, and instruction.
- Ensure all assets meet quality standards and artistic direction.
- Achieve deadlines.
- Contribute to the artistic and professional growth of the team.
- Follow the supervisor's guidance.
- Responsible for building body, facial, and mechanical rig systems for use by other departments.
- Troubleshoot and fix rig issues.
- Collect artistic feedback and fine-tune rig behavior.
- Work within the pipeline and rigging standards.
- Stay up-to-date on current artistic methodologies and technology trends and tools.
- Deliver on time, following production quality standards.
- Prototype, develop, and implement new techniques and processes to solve unique and technical character production challenges.
- Stay current on character technology trends and tools.
- Develop and maintain procedural rig modules with a focus on deformation, using a Python Rigging API.
- Write scripts in Python to facilitate workflow improvements.
- Brainstorm new techniques and ideas for user interfaces, deformation tools, and character-specific rigging solutions.
- 6 years of professional experience in VFX or animation industries.
- At least 1 year of experience as a lead in the animation industry.
- Deformation proficiency demonstrated through past project work.
- Experience with both mechanical and/or organic type rigs, with a preference in feature animation.
- Strong and production-proven knowledge of rigging and deformation using Maya.
- Solid knowledge in pipeline, processes, tools, and techniques, with a high-level understanding of industry standards, conventions, formats, and common practices.
- Proven solid technical and visual skills, excellent attention to detail.
- An impressive reel demonstrating attention to facial surface detail, underlying facial anatomy, and credible and organic facial expressions.
- Deep understanding of anatomy and muscle dynamics.
- Good eye for aesthetics of body/face deformations.
- Advanced Python, GUI scripting, and the ability to follow strict coding standards.
- Advanced English level.
- Spanish oral and written, is desirable.
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