Rigging Artist
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Rigging Artist at Skydance Animation, you'll collaborate with various departments (R&D, Art, Modeling, Layout, Animation) to develop, implement, maintain, and support character and prop deformation rigs. Responsibilities include creating procedural rig components, focusing on deformation using custom tools; working with animators to ensure a broad range of motion; troubleshooting and fixing rig issues; and collaborating with the team. You'll build body, facial, and mechanical rig systems for use by other departments. The role requires strong artistic and technical rigging skills, experience with Maya in a production environment, and knowledge of animation principles and anatomy.
Must have:
- 3-5 years VFX/animation experience
- Strong artistic & technical rigging skills
- Maya experience in production
- Anatomical knowledge
- Basic Python scripting
Good to have:
- Sculpting tool familiarity
- Knowledge of artistic modeling
- Spanish language skills
9 skills required
Job Details
Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.
While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working, Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the world’s most collaborative art form can achieve, and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio that’s doing something different.
---
As a Rigging Artist you will work closely with a variety of departments including; R&D, Art, Modelling, Layout and Animation, to develop, implement, maintain and support character and prop deformation rigs for use by the Crowds, Layout and Animation teams.
Responsibilities
- Develops and maintains procedural rig components with a specific focus on deformation, using custom tools.
- Follows a brief to produce complex production ready rig deformations.
- Works with Animators to aid with deformation rigs to provide a broad range of motion.
- Supports rigs as they move through the pipeline and provides additional deformation fixes as needed.
- Responsible for building body, facial and mechanical rig systems to be used by other departments, such as Crowds, Animation and Layout.
- Troubleshoots and fixes rig issues.
- Collects artistic feedback and fine-tunes rig behavior.
- Works within the pipeline and rigging standards.
- Keeps up on current artistic methodologies and on technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company in the development of a stronger creative and technical environment.
- Delivers on time following Production quality standards.
- Collaborates with other team members, when necessary.
- Follows the Supervisor’s, Lead´s and Senior’s guidance and support
Requirements
- 3-5 years in VFX or animation industries.
- 1+ years in the animation industry is desirable.
- Strong artistic and technical rigging skills.
- Experience within a character pipeline.
- Experience using Maya in a production environment.
- Familiarity with sculpting tools in Body, Face and Shot-Finaling.
- Solid understanding of the principles of animation.
- Anatomical knowledge of facial muscles and their kinematics functions.
- Basic Python scripting knowledge following coding standards.
- Knowledge of artistic modeling and anatomy tools is a plus.
- High English level.
- Spanish desirable.
#Animation #LI-Hybrid
Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive, and animation divisions.
Skydance is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building and fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. We welcome and consider applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy status, military/veteran status, disability, or any other protected category. Diversity in the workplace is not just a commitment, it is who we are and a reflection of what makes our world special.
Recruitment Fraud Alert
It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activity by individuals impersonating our Talent Acquisition team. Skydance will only contact you from an official “@skydance.com” email address. If you suspect that you are being contacted by an unauthorized person or believe that the correspondence you have received is suspicious, please do not click on any links or attachments in such emails and submit any questions or concerns to our information security team at information.security@skydance.com.
Similar Jobs
Critical mass
Toronto, Ontario, Canada (On-Site)
• 4 Weeks ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Similar Skill Jobs
zoox
Seattle, Washington, United States (Hybrid)
• 3 Months ago
Rockstar Games
New York, New York, United States (On-Site)
• 5 Months ago
Riot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
• 3 Months ago
Ubisoft
Saint-Mandé, Île-de-France, France (Hybrid)
• 6 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Jobs in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Zscaler
Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain (Remote)
• 2 Months ago
Forgotten Empires
Málaga, Andalusia, Spain (Remote)
• 1 Month ago
Devoteam
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (On-Site)
• 3 Months ago
Valeo
Martos, Andalusia, Spain (On-Site)
• 1 Week ago
Morning Star
Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain (Hybrid)
• 3 Weeks ago
Triple dot studios
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (Hybrid)
• 3 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Rigging Jobs
Larian Studios
Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory Of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (On-Site)
• 8 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
