As part of the Technical Art, Rigging team, you will create rigs for characters and props on a 12 month temporary assignment. You will oversee tool creation and maintenance for all other art disciplines. Working closely with animation, modeling, and concept teams, you will uncover new ways to improve workflow and ensure functionality, consistency, and quality. As a support, you will be the carry behind the carry, helping hoist up art teams on the strength of your rigs and tools.

As a content-focused Rigging Technical Artist, you will dive deep on rigging characters, creatures, and props, working closely with artists of all disciplines to create game art assets. You will be an expert at working with the front end for the game engine, assisting artists in modeling, animation, and VFX. You will work with our QA Teams to squash bugs, participate in play tests, and ensure the holistic standard of art assets used in the game.

Responsibilities:

• Rig characters, creatures, and props, working closely with animators to achieve engaging in-game performance
• Provide technical support to artists working from our art workflows, collecting data to further improve the tools they are using
• Promote collaboration between art teams to level up content consistency
• Spread knowledge of the team’s processes and help teams expand their technical know-how
• Give and take constructive feedback, direct next steps, and communicate clear goals and outcomes to your team
• Be an ambassador between art disciplines and engineering

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience as a technical artist in games or related industries
• Expertise in content creation tools, particularly Maya
• Understand figure and facial anatomy
• Superb critical thinking skills

Desired Qualifications

• Expertise in game development using modern engines, such as Unreal or Unity
• Proficient Python programmer

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