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As the Rigging Lead you will be responsible for designing, creating and maintaining highly accurate and efficient rigs for high-end feature animation films, according to the technical guidelines of the rigging supervisor. In addition you will work closely with a variety of departments including; R&D, Art, Modelling, Layout and Animation to develop, implement, maintain and support character deformation.**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.- Works closely with the Animators to provide and refine a full range of expressions and body movements needed to support a character’s acting range in the film.- Collaborates directly 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.- Leads the team providing them with support, guidance and instruction- Makes sure all the assets follow the quality standards and artistic direction- Achieves the deadlines.- Contribute towards the artistic and professional growth of the team,- Follow the Supervisor’s guidance.- 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.- Deliver on time following Production quality standards.- Prototype, develops and implements new techniques and processes to solve unique and technical character production challenges.- Keeps up on current character technology trends and tools- Develops and maintains procedural rig modules with a specific focus on deformation, using a Python Rigging API.- Writes scripts in Python to facilitate workflow improvements.- Brainstorms new techniques and ideas for user interfaces, deformation tools, and character-specific rigging solutions.**Requirements**:- 6+ years of professional experience in VFX or animation industries.- At least 1 year of experience as 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.Animation #LI-Hybrid
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