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As a Senior Rigger you will work closely with the Rigging Supervisor and 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 in Crowds, Layout and Animation.**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.- Deliver on time following Production quality standards.- Prototype, develops and implements new techniques and processes to solve unique and technical character production challenges.- Works together with the team providing them with support, guidance and instruction in areas that contribute towards their artistic and professional growth.- Follows the Supervisor’s and Lead's guidance.**Requirements**:- 5+ years in VFX or animation industries.- 3+ years in the animation industry.- Strong artistic and technical rigging skills.- Proficiency within a character pipeline.- Proficiency using Maya in a production environment.- Experience with sculpting tools in Body, Face and Shot-Finaling.- Solid understanding of the principles of animation.- Extensive anatomical knowledge of facial muscles and their kinematics functions.- Advanced Python scripting follows coding standards including Qt Interfaces and UX.- Desirable C/C++ developing knowledge.- High English level.- Spanish desirable.Animation #LI-Hybrid
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